Legal Services NYC
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Legal Services NYC provides free high quality legal help in civil matters to low-income people throughout New York City by:
- Representing clients in courts and administrative tribunals
- Providing advice or referral information when they can’t provide representation
- Assisting clients with community-based economic development
- Providing legal education through community workshops, helplines, and written materials
- Providing professional training in poverty law for attorneys, advocates, and others
The Legal Assistance Hotline is staffed Monday through Friday from 10am to 4pm, by intake officers who speak a variety of languages. Call 917.661.4500.
Bronx Legal Services can provide assistance regarding the following areas:
- Access to Education
- Bankruptcy
- Civil Rights & Language Access
- Consumer Rights
- Disability Advocacy Project
- Disaster Recovery
- Elder Law
- Employment Law & Workers' Rights
- Family Law & Domestic Violence
- Foreclosure Prevention & Homeowners' Rights
- Government Benefits
- Housing & Tenants' Rights
- Immigration & Immigrants' Rights
- LGBT Advocacy
- Taxpayer Assistance
- Veterans Justice Project
Legal Services NYC's Education EMS/Medical Clearance Hotline provides information for parents whose children were sent to a hospital by a school for a psychiatric evaluation and for parents whose children were taken to the Emergency Room from school by Emergency Medical Services (“EMS”) for psychiatric evaluation. Please check the website to know what to do if a child is still being sent to the hospital or not allowed back to school. Call 347.592.2408.