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
VOLS Microenterprise Project Celebrates Pro Bono Week
Founder of Sweet Loren’s Highlights the Importance of Pro Bono Legal Assistance to Her Growing Business “[Pro bono legal assistance]…
Film Screening, Thursday, October 23, “What I Want My Words To Do To You”
Check out a screening of the film, "What I want my words to do to you" that brings us into…
The heat is on! Or is it?
Dear Friends, Yesterday evening as the radiators in my apartment were hissing away, I thought about the many elderly tenants…
As Part of National Pro Bono Week, VOLS Celebrates Andrew Kamensky’s Service to Incarcerated Mothers
Andrew Kamensky is a partner at Hunton & Williams LLP. Two years ago, he began providing pro bono legal assistance to…
SCRIE and roommates — don’t let the forms fool you!
Dear Friends, First of all, I want to apologize for not having posted in a while. Vanessa Diaz, the Elderly…
VOLS Secures Pro Bono Help for HIV Discrimination Case
This past summer, Housing Works came to VOLS seeking pro bono assistance to challenge a landlord's refusal to clients of HASA, a…
