Justia Legal Services & Lawyers Directory

Counties Served:
Statewide

Case Types:
Immigration

Centro Presente’s Legal Immigration Services Department (LIS) provides services crucial to the Latin American immigrant community.

Counties Served:
Parts of Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk. Immigration - statewide

Case Types:
Custody, Domestic Violence, Housing, Immigration, Public Benefits, Child support

CLSACC offers free civil legal assistance for people with low incomes. We provide assistance in the areas of family law and domestic violence, housing and homelessness prevention, disability benefits, and immigration and refugee rights.

Counties Served:
Middlesex and Suffolk

Case Types:
Immigration

Catholic Charities agencies throughout the United States are responding to the needs of victims of violence and human trafficking. RIS received a multi-year federal grant that has enabled us to establish a Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Unit within our Immigration Legal Services program. This unit is able to serve immigrant victims of domestic violence through a holistic approach that provides legal immigration services, safety planning, emergency shelter, counseling, crisis intervention, and access to public benefits. Immigration legal service professionals along with project partners provided services to over 200 victims of violence throughout 2005.

Counties Served:
Statewide

Case Types:
Immigration

Case Restrictions:
Residents of Massachusetts only

PAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing hope and a new beginning to asylum-seekers and torture survivors and immigrants unjustly detained. Founded in 1989, PAIR is the core provider of pro bono legal services to low-income asylum-seekers in Massachusetts and has over a 90% success rate. PAIR works to accomplish this mission by representing low-income asylum-seekers through pro bono attorneys, whom PAIR recruits, trains and mentors, and by providing Know Your Rights presentations and representation to non-citizens in immigration detention in Massachusetts.

Counties Served:
Suffolk

Case Types:
AIDS/HIV, Adoption, Bankruptcy, CED, Consumer, Custody, Dissolution of Marriage, Domestic Violence, Employment, Housing, Immigration, Public Benefits, Real Estate, Wills and Estates

Counties Served:
Statewide

Case Types:
Custody, Dissolution of Marriage, Immigration

Case Restrictions:
Family-based immigration, asylum and non-criminaldeportation defense only. Provide advice only for various family law issues.

The International Institute of Boston (IIB) and its affiliates in Manchester, NH (IINH) and Lowell, MA (II Lowell), provide a continuum of services that foster the successful transition of immigrants and refugees. Fundamental to all of the Institute's programs and services is the promotion of self-sufficiency – giving clients the tools to help themselves become active participants in the social, political and economic richness of American life.

Counties Served:
Statewide

Case Types:
Bankruptcy, Consumer, Employment, Health, Housing, Immigration, Individual Rights, Torts, Entertainment

Case Restrictions:
Need to be an artist.

The Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization established to meet the legal needs of the state's artistic community. Since its inception, the VLA has expanded its services to include legal services for artists and arts organizations as well as educational opportunities for artists, arts organizations and attorneys. VLA also assists local art and cultural institutions in finding attorneys to sit on their respective boards of directors who embrace the mission of the individual organization.