Skip to main content
New York Legal information and assistance website
About us Feedback New York Legal Alerts
Legal Term Glossaries Brochures & Handouts 
 
    
 
 
About the LawHelp NY Team
 
 

 

LawHelp/NY (www.LawHelp.org/NY) is an on-line tool for helping low-income New Yorkers solve their legal problems.  The LawHelp/NY mission is as follows:

"LawHelp/NY provides, and promotes access to, high-quality online information about free legal services throughout New York, about legal rights in a broad range of substantive areas, about the court system, and about related advocacy, government and social service organizations.  We are committed to providing information that is user-friendly, in English, Spanish, and other languages, in order to help low-income and other vulnerable New Yorkers achieve equal access to justice."

LawHelp.org/NY is the only comprehensive source of legal referral information in the state and includes:

¨ More than 600 free legal service projects & organizations with their contact & intake information.

¨ Over 4,000 Know Your Rights and self-help resources covering 16 areas of law. 

¨ Extensive links to social service, advocacy and government organizations, information about the Court system.

¨ Spanish mirror website and legal rights resources in more than 30 languages.

 

 

LawHelp/NY is a collaborative project of:

 

Lawhelp NY Editorial Board:

Disability:
Barbara Samuels, former Social Security/SSI Coordinator, Legal Services NYC

Immigration:   
Walter Ruehle, Legal Aid Society of Rochester

Health:               
Valerie Bogart, David Silva, Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. Evelyn Frank Legal Resources

Public Benefits:

Phil Dailey, Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.

Seniors:
Karen Nicolson, Legal Services for the Elderly, Disabled or Disadvantaged of Western NY

Housing:           
Louise Seeley, City Wide Task Force  on Housing Court

Up State Resources:    
Jeff Hogue, Legal Assistance of Western NY, Inc.

Consequences of Criminal Charges:
Kate Rubin, Reentry.net      

Family & Juvenile:
Anne O' Grady, Lawhelp Content Manager

Workers Rights:
Members of the NYC Bar Labor Committee

Consumer:
Anne O'Grady, LawHelp Content Manager

Education:
Cara Chambers and Susan Horwitz, Legal Aid Society (NYC)

Internet Fraud: Crimes & Prevention:               
Emma Greenwood, Esq., Developer of  Internet Fraud topic

Individual Rights:
TBD

Taxes:
Sarah Dranoff, South Brooklyn Legal Services

Veterans: Phil Dailey, Legal Assistance of Western NY Inc.

 

LawHelp/NY Staff:

Leah Margulies: Project Director (lmargulies@nycbar.org)  

Anne O'Grady: Content Manager (ao'grady@nycbar.org)

Phil Dailey: Upstate Coordinator (pdailey@nylawhelp.org)

Jeff Hogue: Upstate Coordinator (jhogue@lawny.org)

Erin Pendleton: Organizational Listing Coordinator (ependleton@nylawhelp.org)

Molly Coe: Outreach Consultant (NYC) (mcoe@nylawhelp.org)

Quisquella Addison: Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow ( QAddison@nylawhelp.org)

 
LawHelp/NY has received generous support from:
 
 
 
Admin Disclaimer
Powered by ProBono.Net

LawHelp.org/NY is provided as a public service by the New York LawHelp Consortium.

 

 

Icons of LawHelp/NY funder organizations

 
 
Find us on:
      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

LiveHelp is here! Click here to learn more
 
   Need Help with Your Search?
  New York Legal Alerts!
 
  Are you going to court without an attorney? Click here for do-it-yourself interactive forms  
  ¿Vas a ir a la corte sin un abogado? Clic aquí arriba para formas interactivas que puedes usar  
 
 
 
You Are Here
NY / Richmond (Staten Island)
 
 
 
 
Legal Aid Resources in Other Languages
Albanian / shqip
Amharic / Amharic
Arabic / العربية
Armenian / Հայերէն
Bengali / বাংলা
Bosnian / Bosanski
Bulgarian / Български
Cambodian / Khmer
Chinese / 中文
Farsi / فارسی
French / Français
German / Deutsch
Greek / Ελληνικά
Haitian Creole / Kreyòl ayisyen
Hebrew / עברית
Hindi / हिन्दी
Hmong / Hmoob
Italian / italiano
Japanese / 日本語
Korean / 한국어
Laotian / ພາສາລາວ
Mandarin Chinese / 官話
Oromo / Afaan Oromo
Polish / polski
Portuguese / português
Punjabi / ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Russian / Pусский
Serbo-Croatian / Srpskohrvatski Jezik
Somali / Soomaali
Spanish / Español
Swahili / Kiswahili
Tagalog / Tagalog
Tigrina / Ge?ez
Turkish / Türkçe
Ukrainian / Українська
Urdu / اردو
Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt
Yiddish
 
 
     
  © 2001 - 2011, Pro Bono Net, All Rights Reserved. Legal Help in Other States

Bobby WorldWide Approved 508 Level A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0