Qualified vendors will be legal aid providers who will place Tenant Advocates (i.e. staff attorneys or paralegals supervised by staff attorneys) in the nine small claims courts (and superior court) in Marion County. With the approval of, and in coordination with, the presiding judge in each relevant township, the legal aid provider will ensure that the Tenant Advocate(s) is positioned to represent all eligible tenants who are: (1) defendants in eviction or emergency possessory order cases filed in that township’s small claims court; (2) tenants who are party to a damages hearing; (3) tenants partaking in a pre-eviction hearings; and (4) tenants in need of legal services and referred to the Tenant Advocate by a Tenant Navigator. T
