www.accessjusticebrooklyn.org

Access Justice Brooklyn partners with compassionate pro bono attorneys to provide high-quality, civil legal services that help ensure equal access to the legal system. Founded in 1990 as the Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project, Access Justice Brooklyn is an independent 501(c)(3) organization that continues offering free legal advice and representation to people who cannot afford it. Through direct services, education, and outreach, the organization supports individuals in the borough while simultaneously dismantling systemic barriers to justice.

www.bronxdefenders.org

The Bronx Defenders provides innovative, holistic, and client-centered criminal defense, family defense, civil legal services, social work support and advocacy to indigent people of the Bronx. Today, our staff of over 250 represents 35,000 individuals each year and reaches hundreds more through outreach programs and community legal education. In the Bronx and beyond, The Bronx Defenders promotes justice in low-income communities by keeping families together.

www.bds.org

The mission of Brooklyn Defender Services is to provide high quality legal representation and related services to people who cannot afford to retain an attorney. We are a public defender organization that represents 45,000 people each year who are too poor to afford an attorney. Our staff consists of specialized attorneys, social workers, investigators, paralegals and administrative staff who are experts in their individual fields.

www.bka.org

Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A (Brooklyn A) has provided high-quality, neighborhood based civil legal services to low-income individuals, families, community groups, and nonprofit organizations in Brooklyn for over forty-four years. We believe legal services programs are responsible to low-income communities and embrace the value that lawyers have in combating poverty.  Therefore we seek to understand the needs of low-income communities and participating in addressing the problems confronting those communities.

www.camba.org

CAMBA is a non-profit agency that provides services that connect people with opportunities to enhance their quality of life. Many New Yorkers face daily hurdles such as chronic homelessness, HIV/AIDS, language barriers, domestic violence, lack of necessary job skills, and more. Since 1977, CAMBA has helped New Yorkers transform their lives by providing holistic programs to individuals, families and communities. CAMBA offers integrated services and programs in: Economic Development, Education & Youth Development, Family Support, Health, Housing, and Legal Services.

https://catholiccharitiesny.org/what-we-do/welcoming-integrating-immigrants-refugees

The Immigrant and Refugee Services of Catholic Charities Community Services (CCCS) serves over 30,000 families, individuals, day laborers, refugees, asylees, and unaccompanied minor refugees each year throughout New York City and the Lower Hudson Valley. We do this through coordinated and integrated legal services, resettlement assistance, case management, and employment opportunities with one-on-one support, pro bono resourcing, large-scale clinical programming, classroom instruction, and volunteer engagement.

www.catholicmigration.org

Catholic Migration Services sees its mission as welcoming the stranger in our midst by our commitment to empowering underserved immigrant communities in Brooklyn and Queens regardless of religion or ethnicity.

We provide comprehensive pastoral, educational, advocacy and legal services to advance equality and social justice in a changing and diverse population.  Catholic Migration Services, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.

www.elderjusticeny.org

It is the mission of the Center for Elder Law & Justice to improve the quality of life for elderly, disabled and low-income persons in Western New York. We do so through the provision of free civil legal services, primarily to individuals age sixty and over as defined by the federal Older Americans Act, but also to younger disabled and low-income individuals, as funding permits. Our primary goal is to use the legal system to assure that our clients may live independently and with dignity.

Since 1978, we have served our clients in Western New York through direct services, home visits to homebound seniors, legal workshops at senior buildings and senior centers and 40-50 community educations events each year.  In addition to our own staff, we partner with the New York State Bar Association Elder Law Section and the Erie County Bar Association’s Elder Law Committee to provide additional services to our clients. 

cfsbny.org

Creating safe environments for children, adults, and families since 1873.

Child & Family Services dedicates its resources to meet the needs of children, adults, and families. One of Western New York’s most experienced human service agencies, Child & Family Services is a recognized leader in innovative programming and services that foster healthy environments for children and families in local homes, schools, workplaces, and communities.

Child & Family Services is a nonsectarian agency that provides services to children, adults, and families without regard to race, creed, national origin, or economic status.

www2.nycbar.org/citybarjusticecenter

The City Bar Justice Center increases access to justice by leveraging the resources of the New York City legal community. Drawing upon our relationship with the New York City Bar, the Justice Center provides legal assistance to those in need; mobilizes lawyers, law firms, corporate legal departments, and other legal institutions to provide pro bono legal services; educates the public on legal issues; fosters strategic relationships; and impacts public policy.

www.cla-ny.org

Community Legal Advocates of New York is a non-profit legal services organization with its principal office in Garden City, Long Island. CLA is dedicated to closing the social justice gap by advancing the legal rights of low to moderate income clients. CLA provides free or low cost holistic civil legal services to residents of Long Island and New York City, with an emphasis on immigration, public benefits and advance planning matters. CLA represents clients of all immigration statuses.

www.door.org

The Door’s mission is to empower young people to reach their potential by providing comprehensive youth development services in a diverse and caring environment. Since 1972, The Door has helped a diverse and rapidly growing population of disconnected youth in New York City gain the tools they need to become successful, in school, work and in life. The Door's legal services center offers The Legal Services Center provides different kinds of legal counsel, including support for immigrant youth. Services are offered in English, Spanish, Mandarin and French.

www.empirejustice.org

Empire Justice is a statewide, multi-issue, multi-strategy public interest law firm focused on changing the “systems” within which poor and low income families live. With a focus on poverty law, Empire Justice undertakes research and training, acts as an informational clearinghouse, and provides litigation backup to local legal services programs and community based organizations. 

www.ecbavlp.com

The Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc. (VLP) is a 501(c)(3) not for profit corporation which provides free civil legal services to low income individuals and small not-for-profit groups in Erie County. VLP provides these important services by utilizing both its staff and volunteers to represent clients. VLP involves volunteer attorneys by recruiting, training, coordinating and assisting attorneys who volunteer to represent VLP’s clients on a pro bono basis.

www.thefamilycenter.org

The Family Center works to strengthen families affected by illness, crisis, or loss to create a more secure present and future for their children. Working with us, families stay stronger, longer.

With a business-minded approach to running our organization, The Family Center provides expert social and legal services, including health-care coordination, to vulnerable New York families confronting crisis or loss.

Clients and the larger community benefit from:

The Family Center’s immediate, hands-on assistance to families facing a crisis;

Our coordinated support programs that promote sustainable family stability; and

Research and regular program evaluations.

www.goddard.org

Goddard Riverside Community Center is one of New York City’s leading human service organizations. We work to meet people’s basic needs – food, shelter, education – and to bring them together for mutual aid, social action, and to celebrate our richness as a society. Through our Upper West Side and West Harlem programs, we engage people of all ages and backgrounds, and we also develop and manage affordable housing, and organize a range of community arts and events.

www.herjustice.org

Her Justice engages the talent and resources of New York City's law firms, bringing together committed lawyers and determined women to secure life-changing results. We reach women in all 5 boroughs of New York City, and our wide network of contacts at legal and social services agencies, hospitals and clinics, the courts and police precincts, churches and shelters, helps to spread the word about Her Justice’s free legal services in family, divorce and immigration law.

www.hiscocklegalaid.org

The Hiscock Legal Aid Society promotes the fundamental right of every person to equal justice under the law by providing high quality legal assistance to individuals and families in need in Onondaga County and the surrounding region. For more than 65 years, we have been dedicated to the principle that no one in our community shall be denied justice because of a lack of means.

www.hcc-nyc.org

Housing Conservation Coordinators is a 43 year old legal not-for-profit organization that seeks to preserve safe, decent and affordable housing on the west side of Manhattan. Each year, HCC helps thousands of neighborhood residents keep their homes, improve their living conditions and fight for the changes that will keep our neighborhood affordable and diverse for years to come. We provide services such as legal representation, tenant organizing, community organizing, and installation of energy efficient systems through our Weatherization Program.

http://hvjc.org/

The mission of the Hudson Valley Justice Center is to advance social and economic justice in the lower and mid-Hudson Valley region through legal advocacy.  We partner with grassroots community organizations and provide free legal assistance to individuals and groups in a range of issues areas to support collective movements for change

www.immigrantarc.org

Immigrant ARC (I-ARC) is a coalition of immigration legal advocates that works on increasing access to justice and access to counsel for all immigrant New Yorkers. We were inspired to collaborate in January of 2017 during the Muslim Travel Ban and committed to shaping and advocating for all immigrant New Yorkers. We are a community of advocates dedicated to seeking justice shoulder to shoulder with our immigrant clients. We are guided by the needs of the immigrant clients with whom we work.

Our community includes over 80 legal service providers in New York State. We come together in solidarity with all New Yorkers who believe in fair and just immigration policies and who share our collective outrage at the injustices confronting immigrant communities. We use our knowledge of immigration law and practice to empower each other and the communities we serve to collectively fight systemic oppression and seek respect and dignity for all. We recognize that access to justice for immigrant communities is inextricably linked to the broader fight for racial justice. We commit to working alongside all others who are fighting to achieve a vision of a more just and equitable world.

http://www.jasa.org/

JASA is one of New York’s largest and most trusted agencies serving older adults. Our goal is to keep seniors living safely in their own homes and communities with independence, dignity, and joy. 

www.jersbuffalo.org

Journey's End Refugee Services, Inc. is a Christian community-based organization with the mission of welcoming refugees without regard to ethnic origin or creed and to assist them to become healthy, independent, contributing members of the community. Our Immigration Legal Services Program offers complete immigration legal representation to low-income refugees, asylees, and other immigrants before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), including but not limited to naturalization, permanent residency (green cards), family reunification, travel documents, work authorization, asylum and withholding of removal, Temporary Protected Status, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and removal defense.

In addition to direct representation, the Immigration Legal Services Program offers a weekly Walk-in Clinic, providing free legal consultations and pro se assistance (application review) for income-eligible individuals. Community information sessions and trainings by Journey’s End attorneys are also available to organizations and community groups on a wide range of immigration topics.

www.justcauseny.org

JustCause, formerly known as Volunteer Legal Services Project, provides free legal help to low-income residents of Monroe County, New York who are facing non-criminal legal problems. JustCause's services are provided by 1,600 pro bono volunteers who donate their time and talent to ensure that low-income people have access to the justice system when faced with serious legal problems.
    
Our mission is to improve the quality of life of low-income residents of Monroe County by ensuring the existence of a readily available panel of skilled volunteer attorneys to resolve serious legal problems.

www.legalaidbuffalo.org

Founded in 1912, The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc. provides effective legal advice and representation to financially needy men, women and children in Western New York. Through its skilled staff, the Legal Aid Bureau seeks equal justice for everyone it serves. In 2014, the Bureau's 98 employees provided legal assistance to over 20,000 undeserved members of our community.

Legal Aid provides legal assistance through four main Divisions: (1) the Civil Legal Services Unit assists individuals and families in a variety of civil legal matters that have a direct impact on their quality of life; (2) the Attorneys for Children Unit represents neglected, abused and other children at risk; (3) the Criminal Defense Unit defends individuals charged with crimes and violations; and (4)the Appeals and Post-Conviction Unit represents individuals convicted of crimes on appeal and other post-conviction matters.

www.legal-aid.org

The Legal Aid Society is a private, not-for-profit legal services organization, the oldest and largest in the nation, dedicated since 1876 to providing quality legal representation to low-income New Yorkers. It is dedicated to one simple but powerful belief: that no New Yorker should be denied access to justice because of poverty.

The Society handles 300,000 individual cases and matters annually and provides a comprehensive range of legal services in three areas: the Civil, Criminal and Juvenile Rights Practices. Unlike the Society's Criminal and Juvenile Rights Practices, which are constitutionally mandated and supported by government, the Civil Practice relies heavily on private contributions.

www.lasroc.org

The Legal Aid Society of Rochester is a not-for-profit organization that provides direct civil legal services, including lay advocacy and related human services, to adults and children.  We ensure that those who seek justice have an opportunity to receive a fair and full hearing.  We obtain legal solutions that have a beneficial impact on our clients and the community.

The Legal Aid Society of Rochester believes in the guarantees of due process and equal protection as promised in our State and Federal constitutions. To ensure that those rights have real meaning, we will strive to provide a highly qualified and zealous advocate to anyone who cannot otherwise obtain representation in civil legal matters. We will create an environment in our community that values access to legal counsel, so every person is treated with dignity, equality, and fairness.

www.lawny.org

LawNY® is a non-profit law firm. We provide free legal aid to people with civil legal problems in western New York. The law is extremely powerful. It can mean the difference between having a roof over your head and being homeless, having food on your table or going hungry, having access to childcare so that you can maintain your employment or being unemployed. Your gift will help us make sure families meet these most basic needs.

The need for legal services in our communities is still great, and many of our community members face barriers in access to justice. Civil legal services programs like LawNY® have the capacity to meet only about 20% of the legal needs of our client population.

Throughout our fourteen county service area we operate a variety of civil legal services projects, such as foreclosure prevention, domestic violence prevention, disability advocacy, veterans legal services, seniors legal services, and homelessness prevention. Our seven LawNY® offices receive funding from a variety of sources, including federal, state and local government, the United Way, and private foundations.

www.legalproject.org

The Legal Project believes that all people, regardless of income, gender, disability, race, religion, age, sexual orientation or ethnicity should have access to legal services. This belief reflects a deep commitment to fairness and equal justice under the law.

Based upon these beliefs, the mission of The Legal Project is to make the law more accessible to those in need, to increase the legal community's involvement in pro bono work; and to serve as a resource on legal issues. We feel a special commitment to women and others who may have difficulty in obtaining legal assistance.

The Legal Project is a private, not-for-profit organization that was founded by the Capital District Women's Bar Association in 1995. It provides a variety of free and low cost legal services to the working poor, victims of domestic violence and other underserved individuals in the Capital District of New York State.

www.legalservicesnyc.org

Legal Services NYC—the largest organization exclusively devoted to providing free civil legal services in the United States, with neighborhood offices in every borough of New York City—is made up of passionate attorneys and staff who provide their clients—single moms, workers with disabilities, seniors, and others—with a comprehensive approach to solving their legal problems and getting them back on their feet.

We provide high quality free legal help on cases involving housing, family, domestic violence, public benefits, income tax, employment, education, immigration, and consumer rights. We also help the most vulnerable people in our society – children not receiving their child support, victims of domestic violence, people with AIDS and HIV and elderly citizens facing eviction and unsafe living conditions.

Our work helps thousands obtain benefits they are entitled to and preserves families and homes.

www.maketheroadny.org

Make the Road New York (MRNY) builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.

For 17 years, Make the Road New York has fought to ensure respect and dignity for immigrant, poor, and working class New Yorkers. From our early years working to combine legal services, education, and community organizing in Jackson Heights and Bushwick, we had big dreams about what kind of city and state New York can be. And we had the audacity to believe we could build an organization with the sophistication and muscle to deliver on those dreams.

Thanks to the tenacity and vision of our 15,000+ members, and those who have helped us along the way, MRNY has grown into a robust, multiservice powerhouse that works with tens of thousands of New York City and Long Island residents each year.

www.mobilizationforjustice.org. 

Mobilization for Justice, formerly MFY Legal Services, offers free legal assistance to low-income New Yorkers throughout New York City to resolve legal problems in the areas of housing; foreclosure; civil, disability and aging rights; bankruptcy; tax, consumer, employment, government benefits, immigration, and kinship care. Through these services we prevent homelessness, help seniors and people with disabilities live independently, stabilize families, maintain and increase income, and address racial disparities

http://www.ndsny.org/

Founded over 25 years ago, The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem(NDS) mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative and client-centered services that reflect the concerns and needs of our clients and community. By maintaining our primary office in the heart of Northern Manhattan, NDS has a community presence that provides a unique advantage of developing long term relationships with community organizations and members. NDS’ collaborative approach to representation ensures that a client is represented by a team of advocates in civil, criminal and family forums to address all of their complex legal needs. The uniqueness of our practice where attorneys, advocates, social workers, investigators and administrators collaborate on client representation ensures maximum client benefits.

https://www.nycla.org/

The New York County Lawyers Association, located in the heart of the New York World Financial Center, is one of the largest, most influential bar associations in the country, and has pioneered some of the most far-reaching and tangible reforms in American jurisprudence and public policy. This is possible because new lawyers, established lawyers, educators, judges and public sector lawyers contribute to the collective brain trust that is the New York County Lawyers, where everyone has a voice.

www.nylpi.org

The mission of New York Lawyers of the Public Interest (NYLPI) is to advance equality and civil rights, with a focus on health justice, disability rights and environmental justice, through the power of community lawyering and partnerships with the private bar.

Through community lawyering, NYLPI puts its legal, policy and community organizing expertise at the service of New York City communities and individuals.  

NYLPI’s partnership with the private bar strengthens its advocacy and connects community groups and non-profits with critical legal assistance.NYLPI was founded in 1976 to serve the legal needs of underserved, underrepresented New Yorkers and their communities.

What began as a small-scale staff working to link low income clients and organizations with attorneys willing to volunteer pro bono legal services has grown into an unparalleled resource for low income, community-driven legal representation.

We have four main project areas:

The Pro Bono Clearinghouse;
The Disability Justice Program;
The Health Justice Program; and
The Environmental Justice Program.

www.nylag.org

Founded in 1990, the New York Legal Assistance Group provides high quality, free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers who cannot afford attorneys.  Our comprehensive range of services includes direct representation, case consultation, advocacy, community education, training, financial counseling, and impact litigation.

NYLAG provides hope for thousands of New Yorkers in need each year. NYLAG is unique for its ability to serve not only the abject poor, but also individuals and families who earn slightly above the government-designated poverty threshold.

We’re able to serve this population because we neither apply for, nor do we receive, Federal Legal Services Corporation (LSC) funding. NYLAG relies heavily on private donations to enable us to serve the lower middle class and working poor individuals who still cannot afford private counsel.

NYLAG has 125 community offices located in courts, hospitals, and community based organizations in all five boroughs of New York City as well as Westchester, Rockland and Long Island.

www.nmic.org

Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC) is a community-based, nonprofit organization founded in 1979 that serves Washington Heights and Inwood, in upper Manhattan. Beginning with two people operating on a small start-up grant, we have grown over the past 30 years to over 100 staff members, working to stabilize the community and help residents build a better life.

We achieve this by preserving affordable housing through legal services, community organizing, and building weatherization; by promoting economic self-sufficiency through adult education and workforce development; and by stabilizing families through social services, health education, and domestic violence intervention.

From its inception, NMIC has worked hard to empower our community's poorest residents through education, training, organizing, and support. All our services are free and bilingual English-Spanish..

www.probono.net

Pro Bono Net is a national nonprofit organization based in New York City and San Francisco. We work in close partnership with nonprofit legal organizations across the United States and Canada, to increase access to justice for the millions of poor people who face legal problems every year without help from a lawyer.

We do this by (i) supporting the innovative and effective use of technology by the nonprofit legal sector, (ii) increasing participation by volunteers, and (iii) facilitating collaborations among nonprofit legal organizations and advocates working on similar issues or in the same region.

Founded in 1999 with a grant from the Open Society Institute, Pro Bono Net has developed a broad base of support from foundations, law firms, corporate sponsors and nonprofit partners alike, to build web platforms that offer powerful and sophisticated online tools to pro bono and legal aid advocates, and to provide critical legal information and assistance directly to the public.

Our model has been adopted in 30 states and regions, reaching approximately two-thirds of the poverty population and lawyers in the United States. The prototype of the probono.net site was launched in March 1999, with two practice areas in New York City. The first LawHelp site designed to serve the information needs of the public was launched in New York City in April 2001.

Our Programs:

Probono.net
LawHelp.org
LawHelp Interactive
The Immigration Advocates Network
Pro Bono Manager

www.queensdefenders.org

Passion. Commitment. Justice. Queens Defenders' commitment to justice and the community extends well beyond the courtroom.

Our zealous, skilled attorneys handle cases across a broad spectrum, ranging from misdemeanors to major trials and homicides. They work with clients involved in Queens treatment courts, as well as advocate for youth charged with felonies and immigrants facing criminal charges. We work to limit the impact of a criminal record on employment, housing, education, and public benefits.

Founded in 1996, we have represented more than 450,000 clients.

www.qcba.org/pro-bono

Queens Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc. (QVLP), a not-for-profit legal assistance program sponsored by the Queens County Bar Association, is dedicated to providing attorneys, on a pro bono basis, to residents of Queens County who cannot afford to retain a private lawyer to resolve their civil legal problems.

Volunteer lawyers assist indigent persons:

In housing court;
In family court;
In administrative hearings;
With securing uncontested divorces;
With other miscellaneous matters, such as foreclosures, bankruptcy and consumer problems, and the drafting of wills.

www.rurallawcenter.org

The Rural Law Center is the only legal services program in New York State whose mission is to serve the legal needs of individuals and families living in the state's 44 rural counties. We want this website to be useful and easy to access for everyone, especially for the people we serve, but also for our partners in the legal community and in human service agencies.

The Rural Law Center of New York, Inc. is a not-for-profit legal assistance organization which was incorporated in 1996 with the generous support of the IOLA (Interest on Lawyer Accounts) Fund and the New York Bar Foundation.

The Rural Law Center of New York, Inc. is committed to focusing attention through our legal system and government institutions on the needs of low-income, rural New Yorkers. The Rural Law Center was established to meet a pressing need recognized by civil legal services attorneys practicing in New York's rural regions.

Specifically, that is the need to address legal issues which are characteristic of rural poverty by using common strategies, such as representing clients in impact cases, increasing public awareness and informing policy makers of the needs of rural, low-income New Yorkers.

www.urbanjustice.org

For 30 years, the Urban Justice Center has served New York City's most vulnerable residents through a combination of direct legal service, systemic advocacy, community education and political organizing. We assist our clients on numerous levels, from one-on-one legal advice in soup kitchens, to helping individuals access housing and government assistance, to filing class action lawsuits to bring about systemic change.

The UJC is composed of ten distinct Projects. The Projects are part of a unique organizational structure intended to foster creativity, excellence and ultimately meaningful results. The system requires the Project Directors to raise their own budgets in exchange for the freedom to direct and operate their Project as they see fit. The extraordinary level of autonomy has led to an unparalleled sense of ownership, translating to heightened motivation, risk taking, visionary thinking and general excellence.

The UJC represents an extraordinary array of the most deprived and abused people in our society, including members of the working poor, and issues related to discrimination and oppression. We often defend the rights of people who are overlooked or turned away by other organizations. The Urban Justice Center reaches a wide-ranging client base through the following Projects:

    Community Development Project
    Domestic Violence Project
    Safety Net Project
    Human Rights Project
    International Refugee Assistance Project
    Mental Health Project
    Peter Cicchino Youth Project
    Sex Workers Project
    Street Vendor Project
    Veteran Advocacy Project

Each year, our cumulative work results in thousands of victories on behalf of individual clients, as well as groundbreaking reforms that affect public policy nationwide.

https://www.vlpcny.org/

he Volunteer Lawyers Project of CNY, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit legal aid organization that provides free legal information, assistance, and representation in civil legal matters to low-income people in Central New York. Our services are provided by staff and volunteer attorneys with the help of paralegals and law students.

Services throughout Central New York include legal issues related to housing, family, elder, LGBT* rights, immigration, debt, and economic opportunity. 

VLPCNY's LGBT* Rights Program serves the LGBT* community throughout Upstate New York who cannot obtain other legal help, with a focus on the following counties: Onondaga, Madison, Cayuga, Oswego, Oneida, Herkimer, Otsego, Delaware, Cortland, Chenango, Tompkins, Chemung, Tioga and Broome. 

VLPCNY's Immigration Program services immigrants throughout Central and the North Country, with a focus on the following counties: 

Central New York: Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga and Oswego Counties.
North Country: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Lewis and St. Lawrence Counties.

www.onvlp.org

The mission of the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County, Inc. is to expand access to justice by identifying and meeting the unmet civil legal services needs of low income people in Onondaga County through increasing the pro bono participation of the legal community.

OnVLP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit legal aid organization that provides free legal information, assistance, and representation in civil legal matters to low-income people. Our services are provided by volunteer attorneys with the help of law students and are supervised by a small staff. Our mission is to provide equal access to justice to those in need.

In 2014, the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County closed 2,682 cases, benefiting over 6,500 people in civil legal issues affecting the essentials of life, including housing, family, elder, divorce, veteran and immigration law.

www.volsprobono.org

Volunteers of Legal Service leverages the good will, resources, and talents of New York City's leading law firms to provide pro bono legal assistance to the city’s neediest residents.

Through our projects, VOLS' staff and volunteer attorneys help all kinds of New Yorkers solve difficult legal problems that have significant consequences for them and for their families.  

We help mothers in prison maintain visitation with their children. We provide senior citizens with advance health care directives and other essential life-planning documents.  We help immigrant high school students resolve immigration issues so that they can work legally and/or attend college.  We help children with asthma by forcing landlords to eradicate mold and to repair crumbling plaster.

We strive to provide pro bono legal assistance when and where it will be most accessible to our clients, in settings familiar to them, instead of requiring people in desperate need to come to us.   

We do this by working closely with hospitals, schools, senior centers, and other community organizations, and integrating pro bono legal assistance into the array of services these organizations already provide.

www.wnylc.com

The Western New York Law Center, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation formed in 1996 after Congress restricted the types of cases that Legal Services Corporation (LSC) grantees could handle.

The Center represents low-income Western New Yorkers in civil matters, emphasizing those areas restricted by LSC. Our vision and mission with respect to our legal work is to assure that low-income people receive the full range of civil legal services including “non-traditional” legal assistance like policy advocacy and legal education.

The Center also serves as a statewide technology support center for legal services programs. Our vision and mission with respect to our technology work is to help legal services offices statewide use technology in a cost effective manner to better serve their clients in this time of diminishing resources.

Our target populations are legal services managers, attorneys, paralegals, clients and support staff.