question: What is the full name of the organization that was once the funding agency for the Neighborhood Legal Assistance Program Corp. in Charleston? answer: The Legal Services Corp paragraph: A congressional agency that funds legal services for low-income Americans is battling Charleston lawyers over control of buildings that once housed legal assistance programs in Charleston, Georgetown and Conway. At stake is prime real estate in the coastal cities, including a Charleston building in the heart of upscale commercial development on upper King Street. The Washington-based Legal Services Corp. wants the buildings transferred to the S.C. Centers for Equal Justice, said LSC spokesman Eric Kleiman. The LSC was once the funding agency for the Neighborhood Legal Assistance Program Corp. in Charleston. In January, the LSC funding went to the Greenville-based equal justice centers. In an Aug. 21 letter to NLAP board chairman Gerald A. Kaynard, LSC president John N. Erlenborn said: "If NLAP fails to effectuate these transfers by Aug. 31, LSC will take all necessary steps to protect its interest in these properties." Kaynard did not return repeated phone calls from The Post and Courier. As part of its funding agreement, the LSC requires property purchased with government funds be returned to the nonprofit corporation if a local agency loses its grant, Kleiman said. In August, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that requirement in a lawsuit LSC filed in a property dispute with a legal services program in Big Stone Gap, Va. Kleiman said, "We will continue to work with NLAP to work out an orderly transfer of the property. We hope this can be resolved amicably." Last year, NLAP lost its federal grant with a nationwide consolidation of legal aid programs. In January, the federal agency awarded a $4.4 million grant to the Centers for Equal Justice, which has a Charleston area office and sites in 11 other South Carolina cities. 