Richard Prebil
Legal Aid of Southeastern PA Supervising Attorney
Chester, PA
Richard A.J. Prebil, Esq., is Supervising Attorney of the Veterans Unit at Legal Aid of Southeastern PA, which he helped establish in mid‐2020. The Unit provides representation, advice, and outreach to veterans experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, homelessness, and income insecurity, or living with a disability. Richard primarily practices in the areas of VA benefits, discharge upgrades, and social security. When he joined LASP in 2019, Richard, based in the Chester City office, represented individuals in landlord/tenant, subsidized housing, child custody, public benefits, and unemployment compensation matters. 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, in PA, NJ, and DE. During law school, he worked with many veteran and legal service organizations from Minneapolis to Chicago to Philadelphia. Richard holds a JD from the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, where he now teaches “Representing Veterans in Administrative Practice” as an adjunct professor. He holds a BA from the University of Illinois Springfield.