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
Boddewyn Gaynor Architects, D.P.C. Designs Worth Street Headquarters for Volunteers of Legal Service
VOLS' new office has been featured in Citybizlist. Citybizlist Article: Boddewyn Gaynor Architects, D.P.C. Designs Worth Street Headquarters for Volunteers of…
Hello from Kelsey Ripper, New Microenterprise Project Director
I am thrilled to be the new Director of the Microenterprise Project here at VOLS. As I take on this…
Cardozo Law School legal clinic is looking for NYCHA/Section 8 tenants with cognitive impairments who’ve had problems re-certifying
Dear Friends, I am writing to pass along a query from Lezlie Salzman, the director of Cardozo Law School's Clinical…
Not every “Notice” deserves your notice
Dear Friends,Recently a senior brought me something that she’d received in the mail that really worried her. There was a…
Harlem Grandma Finally Gets Green Card
The NY Daily News today ran an article on an immigration case that VOLS' Immigration Project Director and Fried Frankpro…
New VOLS Elderly Project referral forms and fax number
Dear Friends, I hope that you have all had a nice summer. I sure did, and now I'm looking forward…
