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New York State
General
Know Your Rights: A Guide for Victims of Crime
New York City
AANHPI
The Korean American Family Service Center (KAFSC) is a leading, nonprofit organization that supports and empowers adults, youth, and children to lead safe and healthy lives based on dignity, compassion, and mutual respect. KAFSC is committed to prevent and end domestic violence, sexual assault, and relationship abuse, overall to create a violence-f...
email: [email protected]
phone: (718) 460-3801
New York City
Immigrants
KCS envisions a world where immigrant communities remain grounded in their heritage and work together with the broader community to build a better society at large.KCS' mission is to be a bridge for Korean immigrants and the wider Asian community to fully integrate into society and overcome any economic, health and linguistic barriers so that they ...
National
LGBTQIA+
The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, better known as Lambda Legal, is an American civil rights organization that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) communities as well as people living with HIV/AIDS (PWAs) through impact litigation, societal education, and public policy work.
email: [email protected]
phone: 212-809-8585
Southern Tier
LatinX/Hispanic
The LCA is an all volunteer organization dedicated to serving the Latino community of Tompkins County by providing a platform for its social, cultural, education and civic expression.
New York State
General
LawHelpNY is a non-profit focused on helping you solve family, debt, housing, work and other legal problems. LawHelpNY.org helps New Yorkers learn more about: Legal rights and options on many topics such as family, housing, and consumer law. Self-help information including court forms and how the court system works. Free or low-cost legal services,...
Western New York
General
The largest provider of such services in WNY, we represent individuals charged with offenses within the City of Buffalo. The mission of the Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo is to provide access to justice and due process to the most vulnerable individuals, children and families in the Western New York community through quality legal representation and a...
email: [email protected]
phone: (716) 853-9555
New York State
General
The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York provides free civil legal aid to low-income upstate New Yorkers. We have 106 staff in five offices in the region, serving 16 counties and the St. Regis Indian Reservation. We are a law firm for poor and low-income people. We provide free assistance and representation in civil, not criminal, cases. Ther...
Western New York
General
Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc. (LawNY) provides free legal aid to people with civil legal problems. If you are having a legal problem with a perosn or agency and it is not a criminal matter, LawNY may be able to give you help or advice. LawNY's mission is to increase access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy, an...
phone: See organization information for local office numbers
Capital Region
General
At Legal Hand, our trained community Volunteers, who are not lawyers, provide free information, assistance, and referrals to help people resolve issues that affect your life, in areas like housing, family, immigration domestic violence, public benefits, employment and many more. When Legal Hand Visitors are facing legal actions our Volunteers can a...
email: [email protected]
phone: (518) 400-5544
National
Our vision is for all women and girls to realize their full potential. With a mission focused on ensuring economic and personal security for all women and girls by advancing equity in education, the workplace, and the courts, we provide an expert legal voice to seek justice for women. Our five areas of legal impact are how we work to achieve this m...
email: [email protected]
phone: 1 (800) 649-0297
New York City
General
Legal Services NYC's (LSNYC) mission is to fight poverty and seek racial, social, and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers. We help New Yorkers obtain the basic necessities of life, including housing, economic security, family and immigration stability, education, health care, and challenge the systemic injustices that trap people in poverty...