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
Hello from Peter Kempner, VOLS’ Elderly Project Director
I am really excited to start this week as the new Director of the Elderly Project at Volunteers of Legal…
Liz Markuci participates in a panel about Cross Cultural Competence
On April 24, the New York City Bar Association's Pro Bono & Legal Services Committee presented "Cross-Cultural Competence in Pro Bono…
690 Lawyers Benefit 2600 People Through VOLS in 2017
VOLS' numbers for 2017 are in, and we are proud to report that in 2017, VOLS' staff of ten people…
Peter Kempner To Lead VOLS’ Elderly Project
I am thrilled to announce that Peter Kempner will join VOLS as the Project Director of our Elderly Project on…
VOLS’ IMLP Inspires Project in New Zealand
According to a recent article in the New Zealand Herald, Stacey Shortall, a New Zealand lawyer who volunteered in VOLS' Incarcerated Mothers…
Entrepreneurs Use Pro Bono Legal Services to Launch Tangerine Cleaning
“The Microenterprise Project and our attorneys believed in us and supported our efforts to build a woman-owned business at an early…
