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HELCEP - Legal Sites
Legal Service Providers
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Caribbean
Women's Health Association, Inc. (CWHA) - Formed in 1982 to
respond to the overwhelming problems which affect immigrants,
including lack of access to health care, unfamiliar bureaucratic
systems, victimization and exploitation.
- Church Avenue
Merchants Block Association (CAMBA) - Provides a broad array of
comprehensive employment, education, health, legal, social, business
development and youth services to over 15,000 participants annually.
- Legal Aid
Society of New York - Handles more than 20,000 indigent criminal
cases, acts as law guardian to more than 40,000 children and
represents approximately 40,000 individuals, families and community
organizations in civil legal matters such as eviction and housing,
benefit entitlements and disability.
- Legal
Services Corporation - A private, non-profit corporation
established by Congress in 1974 to assure equal access to justice
under the law for all Americans.
- Legal Support
Unit (LSU) - The back-up and support center of Legal Services for
New York City, a network of fifteen neighborhood-based offices that
provide free legal services in civil matters to low income people.
- New York Association
for New Americans, Inc. (NYANA) - Helping refugees and immigrants
rebuild lives, families, and communities.
Civil Rights
- American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) - Its mission is to fight
civil liberties violations wherever and whenever they occur.
- Asian
American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (AALDEF) - "Our aim is to build an
informed and active Asian America that is involved in the civic life
of this country."
- Civilrights.org
- "A Social Justice Network"
- Community Service
Society of New York - "A Leager in the Fight against Poverty
in New York City for over 150 years"
- Critical
Resistance - Campaign to defeat the prison industrial complex
- Human Rights Watch
- "Defending Human Rights Worldwide"
- Mexican American
Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) - A national nonprofit
organization whose mission is to protect and promote the civil rights
of the more than 35 million Latinos living in the United States.
- National
Action Network - Fights for progressive, people-based policies
against the rising conservative trend of cutting human services and
balancing budgets at the expense of the working class people.
- NAACP - The
primary focus of the NAACP continues to be the protection and
enhancement of the civil rights of African Americans and other
minorities.
- NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. - Western Regional Office
- "The nation's premier civil rights public interest law firm."
- National
Organization for Women (NOW) - The leading civil rights
organization focused on women’s rights issues.
- NOW Legal Defense
and Education Fund (NOWLDEF) - Working in Congress, the courts and
through the media, we act strategically to secure equality and justice
for all women across the country.
- New York Civil
Liberties Union (NYCLU) - Statewide organization dedicated to the
protection and enhancement of New Yorkers' civil liberties as
enumerated in the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution and the
Constitution of the State of New York
- Probono.net -
"A unique experiment in the use of information technology and a
unique collaboration among the various parts of the public interest
legal community."
- Rebellious
Lawyering - An annual, student-run conference which brings
together practitioners, law students, and community
activists/advocates from around the country to discuss innovative,
progressive approaches to law and social change.
- 360degrees
- A site concerned with the increasing numbers of incarcerated
Americans where people with diverse stories and experiences can come
together to share their experiences and opinions, engage in a
productive dialogue.
Courts
Legal Research
Bar Associations
- American Bar
Association - Provides law school accreditation, continuing legal
education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and
judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for
the public.
- Association of the
Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY) - Serves
not only as a professional association but also as a leader and
advocate in the legal field on a local, state, national and
international level.
- Brooklyn Bar
Association - Membership organization of
lawyers who reside or work in the Borough.
- Computer Law
Association (CLA) - Networking tool and informational resource for
those seeking to learn more about the exciting world of Internet and
Information Technology (IT) law
- International Law
Association - American Branch - Private international organization
devoted to the development of international law
- National Lawyers Guild
- We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and
jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization that shall function as
an effective political and social force in the service of the people,
to the end that human rights shall be more sacred than property
interests.
- National Police Accountability
Project (NPAP) - Project of the National Lawyers Guild
- New York State
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NYSACDL) - "Not for
the few, but for the Rights of All"
- New
York State Bar Association (NYSBA) - Membership of more
than 67,000 lawyers, representing every town, city and county in the
state, the New York State Bar Association is the oldest and largest
voluntary state bar organization in the nation.
- New
York State Defenders Association (NYSDA) - A not-for-profit,
membership organization, providing support to New York's criminal
defense community since 1967. Its mission is to improve the quality
and scope of publicly supported legal representation to low-income
people.
- New York State
Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA) - "To promote a safer and
healthier society, to assure access to the civil justice system by
those who are wrongfully injured and to advance representation of the
public by ethical, well-trained lawyers."
- Queens
County Bar Association - Mission is to elevate the ethical
standards of the Bar, to increase the public service functioning of
the Bar, and to improve its public relations; to assume leadership in
fostering continued improvement of the administration of justice under
our constitutional form of government.
- Queens
County Women's Bar Association - Membership organization for
female attorneys in Queens.
- Women's Bar Association of the
State of New York (WBASNY) - The only
statewide bar association dedicated to promoting the advancement of
women in society and in the legal profession; known for addressing
difficult legal issues, advocating change and promoting the fair and
equal administration of justice.
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