Client Centered. Community Focused. Pro Bono Powered.
VOLS provides free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers through close partnerships with community-based organizations, law firms and companies. Our vision is access to justice for every New Yorker.
Our Services
VOLS’ free legal services support New Yorkers with limited access to resources as they face their civil legal challenges.
Our legal programs support older adults with incapacity and life planning, immigrant young people and families navigating immigration laws, individuals seeking access to public benefits, small business owners with transactional legal challenges, and incarcerated mothers with family law questions.
What's New At VOLS
In October 1988, women business owners secured their rights. Read about VOLS’ support today for women small business owners.
Thirty-one years ago on October 25, 1988, Congress passed the Women’s Business Ownership Act of 1988. This Act enshrined several…
Veterans Initiative Client Story: Mr. Iannuzzi Maintains His Apartment
This story is a recent case example from the Veterans Initiative of the VOLS Elderly Project. The VOLS client's name…
VOLS Testimony on Veteran Homelessness in New York City, by Jess Penkoff
Testimony to New York City Human Resources Administration' Annual Hearing re: Office of Civil Justice’s Programs to Provide Universal Access…
NY Daily News’ Veterans Day guest column by VOLS’ Peter Kempner
On Veterans Day 2019, the New York Daily News published a guest column by VOLS' Peter Kempner, Legal Director and Director…
VOLS Veterans Initiative Announced
A Message from Marcia Levy, VOLS Executive Director On this Veterans Day, I bring a military mom’s pride to thinking…
New York Veterans Law Working Group submits testimony at Albany hearing
As part of the Veterans Initiative of the VOLS Elderly Project, Volunteers of Legal Service recently contributed to written testimony…
