MetroWest Legal Services
- To Volunteer, Contact:
- Organization Type: Nonprofit Legal Services Provider
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Location:
63 Fountain StreetFramingham, MA 01702
- Phone: 508-620-1830
- Fax: 508-620-2323
- TTY: 508-620-1830
- Website: http://www.mwlegal.org/getinvolved/volunteer
- Email: cpalmieri@mwlegal.org
Who we are:
MetroWest Legal Services is the premier legal advocacy agency in Middlesex and Norfolk county. Since its inception in 1976, MetroWest Legal Services has helped ten of thousdands of low income individuals with their civil legal problems.
Our mission:
The mission of MetroWest Legal Services is to protect and advance the rights of the poor, elderly and other disenfranchised individuals through legal advocacy and to assist them in obtaining social, ecomonic and legal justice. MetroWest Legal Services helps clients secure access to basic needs while challenging insititutional barriers so that equal justice for all is achieved.
What we do:
MetroWest Legal Services is dedicated to helping clients naviagate the legal system to achieve justice in the areas of Consumer Law, Education, Elder Law, Family Law, Foreclosures, Govenment Benefits, Housing and Immigration.
Who we help:
MetroWest Legal Services assists over 2000 clients each year with the help of attorneys on our Pro Bono Panel as well as our inhouse staff attorneys and paralegals. We assist clients throughout the MIddlesex and Norfolk county areas
- County(s) of Volunteer Opportunity: Middlesex, Norfolk
- Area of law: Consumer, Debt/Credit/Bankruptcy, Disability, Education, Elder Law, Family & Juvenile, Foreclosure, Homeless, Housing, Immigration & Naturalization, Life Planning, Public Benefits, CORI sealing, wills, advanced directives
- Populations Served: Children, Communities of Color, Domestic Violence Victims, Elderly, General Public, Individuals with criminal histories, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Low Income, Military/Veterans, Persons with Disabilities, State Residents, Women, Working poor and unemployed
- Opportunities For: Interpreters, Law Students, Lawyers, Mentors, Paralegals, Senior Lawyers
- Need for non-English services: Portuguese, Spanish
- Hours for Pro Bono Opportunities: Flexible, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
- Malpractice insurance is provided for volunteers: Yes
- Training Provided: Yes
- Training Required: No
- CLE credit for trainings: No
- CLE credit for pro bono: No
- Mentoring or supervision offered: Yes
- Volunteer lawyers need to meet a caseload or hours requirement: No
- Types of projects in need of Pro Bono help: Client counseling (e.g., brief advice), Draft legal documents (e.g., briefs), Litigation: Trial/Direct Representation, Mentor volunteer lawyers or law students, Translate legal documents
- Other Project Types: Probate & Family Court Lawyer for the Day Program (Marlboro)
- Volunteers may participate long-distance: No
