Our highly trained Volunteers, who are not lawyers, provide free legal information, assistance and referrals to help you resolve issues that affect your life in areas like housing, family, consumer debt, immigration, domestic violence, public benefits, employment and many more.
We help with the issues that impact your life.
Our values
All are welcome and will be treated with dignity and respect.
No appointments necessary.
Everyone is welcome, no matter their income or immigration status.
Open weekdays including some evenings.
Expands access to justice.
Supporting Our Neighbors since 2015
Legal Hand provides information and assistance to Visitors to help them resolve common legal problems and empowers Visitors to help themselves.
Our volunteers live, work or study in the communities where they serve. Many of our Volunteers know someone who has been through similar situations as our Visitors, or have been through it themselves.
Legal Hand conducts community outreach, holds Know Your Rights workshops, and establishes relationships with local community-based organizations.
Our goal with the Legal Hand Centers is to break down barriers between the community and the justice system...This will lead to more just outcomes, more crises averted, less litigation, and money savings for our state and local governments.
Jonathan Lippman
Former New York State Chief Judge
