Northwest Justice Project — Eviction Defense Screening Line & CLEAR
Statewide phone and online routes to free civil legal aid for low-income people. The Eviction Defense Screening Line (1-855-657-8387) screens tenants facing eviction to see if they qualify for a free attorney under Washington's right-to-counsel law. CLEAR handles other civil legal problems (King County residents call 2-1-1 for this). These are screening and callback lines, not a 24-hour live service: you may need to leave a message and wait for a call back, and a lawyer is not guaranteed for every problem. Interpreters are available. Services: Eviction Defense Screening Line (1-855-657-8387); CLEAR legal advice/referral intake (1-888-201-1014); CLEAR*Online web application; senior line 1-888-387-7111
Hours: Eviction Defense Screening Line: weekdays; a partner fact sheet (May 2026) lists 8:30am-7pm, but I could not confirm this on an official page, so call on a weekday during the day. Leave a voicemail if no one answers; calls are returned. CLEAR (outside King County): Mon-Fri 9:15am-12:15pm. King County: call 2-1-1 on weekdays (published hours differ, about 8am-6pm on the Washington Courts page and 9am-5pm in NJP's indexed text). Seniors 60+: 1-888-387-7111, Mon-Fri 9:15am-12:15pm.
Languages: Interpreters available in all languages; site published in ASL, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Russian, Somali
Accessibility: Phone and online intake — no travel required; senior-specific line
Cost: Free
Who can use: Low-income (CLEAR uses civil legal aid income limits; eviction right-to-counsel is indigency-based). King County residents dial 211 for CLEAR intake; the eviction line 1-855-657-8387 is statewide including King County
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