Richard Prebil
Legal Aid of Southeastern PA Veterans Advocacy Project Staff Attorney
Chester, PA
Richard A.J. Prebil, Esq., currently serves as a Staff Attorney with the Veterans Advocacy Project at Legal Aid of Southeastern PA, a project he helped establish in mid‐2020. The mission of the Project is to provide trauma‐informed, client‐centered legal representation and advice to veterans experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, homelessness, and income insecurity, or living with a disability, in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties. Currently, he primarily practices in the areas of VA benefits, discharge upgrades, and social security. Richard also currently teaches as an adjunct professor at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law ("Representing Veterans in Administrative Practice").
He joined LASP in September 2019 as a staff attorney in its Chester City office representing low‐income individuals throughout Delaware County in the areas of landlord/tenant, public/section 8 housing, child custody, public benefits, and unemployment compensation. Prior to joining Legal Aid, Richard was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at a non-profit in Philadelphia where he provided representation and outreach to veterans, current military personnel, and their families, in the areas of veterans benefits, discharge upgrades, and Chapter 7 bankruptcies. Throughout law school he interned with different legal service and social service organizations from Minnesota to Chicago to Philadelphia, focusing on assisting individuals experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, homelessness and income insecurity.
Richard received his law degree from the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and his BA from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He also earned a Certificate in Trauma‐Informed Organizations from the Institute on Trauma and Trauma‐Informed Care at the University of Buffalo in 2018.
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