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
Simpson Thacher Attorneys Win Permanent Residency for Mother
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett associates Shannon Torres and Dan Shin recently assisted the mother of two Bushwick High School students…
Sharon Katz Named New Pro Bono Special Counsel at Davis Polk
Sharon Katz provides pro bono legal services to incarcerated mothers on family law matters through the VOLS Incarcerated Mothers Law…
Law Student Wins Inspire! Award
Volunteers of Legal Service (VOLS) congratulates Charity Brady on receiving the 2012 Inspire! Award given each year by the Center…
Social Needs RX
VOLS partners with White & Case, Community Pediatrics at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, and Pro Bono Net…
Founder of Volunteer Lawyers for Justice Cites VOLS As Inspiration
Karen Sacks, Founding Executive Director of Volunteer Lawyers for Justice, cited her experience volunteering through VOLS as her inspiration. NJ.com…
Riverstone Gala 2011
Oscar Straus, the Director of Volunteers of Legal Service's Elderly Project, and Nelson Gutierrez, Paralegal, were honored yesterday evening at…
