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Projects, Units, Initiatives

Adolescent Defense

The Legal Aid Society represents youth who have been arrested and face charges in both Family Court and Criminal Court in all five boroughs in New York City. Our staff represent youth from the precinct...

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Adolescent Practice Teams

The expertise and tenacity of our borough-based Adolescent Practice Teams empower older youth in foster care, ensuring that they receive every available support and legal entitlement while in placement and as they transition to adulthood...

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Case Closed Project

Case Closed is a record sealing and expungement project that is part of the post-conviction team in The Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Defense Practice. Launched when New York’s 2017 application-based sealing law went into effect,...

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Citywide Housing Practice

Our Housing Justice units work to promote housing stability and prevent homelessness among the city’s most vulnerable families and individuals. We take a holistic approach: defending individuals and families facing evictions in housing court; enforcing...

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Civil Practice Law Reform Unit

The Law Reform Unit builds upon the needs of individual clients to make systemic changes through litigation and advocacy that benefit large numbers of clients with similar legal problems. Through class actions and other affirmative...

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Community Development Project

The Community Development Project (CDP) offers essential transactional legal services to assist small business owners, nonprofit organizations, and Housing Development Fund Companies (HDFCs) throughout New York City. Our mission is to empower our clients, enabling...

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Community Justice Unit

The Community Justice Unit (CJU) was established in 2011 as part of the New York City Council’s Task Force to Combat Gun Violence. Recognizing the critical need to support community-based organizations whose work is to...

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Consumer Law Project

The Consumer Law Project (CLP) provides legal advice and representation to low-income New Yorkers in all five boroughs of New York City in a range of consumer matters, including those related to credit card debt,...

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Criminal Appeals Bureau

The Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Appeals Bureau (CAB), consisting of approximately 90 attorneys, 3 social workers, 36 paralegals, an investigator and support staff, is the largest provider of services to low-income people in New York...

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Criminal Defense Practice Law Reform Team

The Law Reform team of the Criminal Defense Practice addresses systemic legal issues affecting the rights of Legal Aid’s public defense clients, from police misconduct to the rights of incarcerated people, and from bail reform...