Winter Break Hours and Operations

  • LSS will be operating remotely December 23, 2024.
  • LSS will be CLOSED December 24th through January 1st. 
    • Current clients can contact their attorney by email. If you have a legal emergency, please contact a private attorney. 

Disclaimer

Legal Services for Students at the University of Kansas provides these web pages for general informational and educational purposes only as a service to University of Kansas students. Any information on these web pages is not, and is not intended to be, legal advice and it is not guaranteed to be current or complete. Legal advice can be provided only in the course of an attorney-client relationship with reference to all the facts of a specific situation. Any information on these web pages, therefore, must not be relied on as a substitute for obtaining legal advice from a licensed attorney. While Legal Services for Students tries to provide links to timely and educational information for your convenience, we do not review, control, or monitor any of the materials on external web pages and Legal Services for Students makes no guarantees, express or implied, concerning the accuracy or reliability of those materials. Accordingly, you should not act or rely on any information on these web pages or in any content that is linked to or from these web pages without first consulting a licensed attorney. Legal Services for Students assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein.

These web pages are not an offer to advise or to represent any person. Legal Services for Students does not wish to advise or to represent any person who does not qualify for our services or any person in any jurisdiction in which none of our lawyers is admitted to practice or any jurisdiction in which these web pages do not comply with all applicable laws and ethical rules. Additionally, these web pages do not, and are not intended to, create an attorney-client relationship.

While Legal Services for Students encourages persons who qualify for our services to contact us by phone, if you must contact our office by email PLEASE DO NOT SEND LEGAL SERVICES FOR STUDENTS ANY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR SITUATION UNTIL SUCH TIME AS LEGAL SERVICES FOR STUDENTS HAS EXPLICITLY AGREED TO ADVISE AND/OR TO REPRESENT YOU. Because contacting the Legal Services for Students office does not create an attorney-client relationship, the confidentiality of any information you send us will not be protected by the attorney-client privilege or any other doctrine or duty. Before Legal Services for Students can agree to advise or to represent you, we are ethically required to perform a conflicts check against other students and clients and we are required to ensure that you qualify for our services. Also, please be aware that any communication sent to us by e-mail may be intercepted or misdirected to third parties who owe no duty of confidentiality to you. Accordingly, before sending us any confidential information, please contact us to arrange suitable means to protect it.

Any opinions on these web pages are not necessarily those of the University of Kansas. Additionally, any information or opinions in any external web pages that are linked to or from our web pages are provided solely for informational and educational purposes and are in no way endorsed or approved of by the University of Kansas or by Legal Services for Students.

Pursuant to Kansas Rule of Professional Conduct 7.2(d), Jo Hardesty, Director and Managing Attorney of Legal Services for Students, is an attorney who is responsible for the content of these web pages. The revisions of content of these web pages are continuing in nature.

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