Client Centered. Community Focused. Pro Bono Powered.
Volunteers of Legal Service (VOLS) seeks to ensure that every New Yorker has access to justice by mobilizing pro bono and community partnerships to provide free civil legal services that protect rights and expand opportunities.
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
Yes, older people can be organ donors!
Dear Friends, As you probably know, the New York healthcare proxy -- click here to see the form on the Dep't of…
CNN Features Elizabeta Markuci, Immigration Project Director, in Article
CNN.com featured Elizabeta Markuci, VOLS' Immigration Project Director, in an online article titled "Immigration Attorneys' Fears Grow Over Uncertain DACA…
Bill Lienhard, VOLS’ Executive Director, Featured in Kattwalk
Bill Lienhard, VOLS' Executive Director, was featured in a full-length interview in the Fall 2016 edition of Kattwalk, a publication…
New helpful graphics explaining “Outpatient” Observation Status
Dear Friends,As you probably know, "Outpatient" Observation Status is a billing classification that can have devastating consequences – making Medicare…
Give the Gift of Legal Advocacy for Immigrants on #GivingTuesday
Next Tuesday, November 29, 2016, is #GivingTuesday, a national day organized to counter-balance Black Friday with a day devoted to giving…
Entrepreneur, Formerly Homeless, Gives Back
Jerry Dragon’s journey from being homelessness to founding CleanliYES, a Brooklyn-based cleaning company, wasn’t easy. It required a vision, hard work,…
