Steering Committee on the Unmet
Legal Needs of Children

New York

The Children's Law Center
1 Boerum Place
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: 718-522-3333
Fax: 718-522-7376
Email: n/a
Contact: Carol Sherman, Executive Director

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: family law, domestic violence, and matrimonial law

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Covenant House New York
460 West 41st, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-613-0301
Fax: 212-239-8781
Email: LNOBLE@covcorp.org
Contact: Laura L. Noble, Deputy Director, Advocacy and Legal Services

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: immigration, family, housing and public benefits. Experience preferred, but not required.

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Education Law Clinic/Legal Assistance Program
State University of New York, Buffalo Law School
P.O. Box 9
Getzville, NY 14068-0009
Phone: 716-645-2167
Fax: 716-645-2900
Email: saran@msmail.buffalo.edu
Contact: Melina Saran

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: law school program with cases in special education, suspension, expulsion, and truancy issues (for children with disabilities)

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Agenda for Children Tomorrow
C/o ACS
80 Lafayette St., Room 1425
New York, NY 10013
Phone: 212-266-3392
Fax: 212-266-3227
Email: actnet1@earthlink.net
Contact: Eric Brettschneider, Executive Director

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: incorporations, advise non-profits, family law, juvenile justice, and child welfare

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Children's Rights Inc.
404 Park Avenue South, 11th floor
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212-683-2210
Fax: 212-683-4015
Email: clevine@childrensrights.org
Contact: Craig Levine, Staff Attorney

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: child welfare, juvenile justice, and mental health

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The Door
A Center of Alternatives, Inc.
121 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013-1510
Phone: 212-941-9090
Fax: 212-941-0714
Email: n/a
Contact: n/a

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: adoption, birth certificate/name change, civil rights, contracts, delinquency, emancipation, family law, government benefits, homeless youth, immigration, mental health, protection orders, special education, Supplemental Security Income, and suspension, expulsion, and truancy

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Juvenile Rights Clinic
New York University School of Law
Fuchsberg Hall
249 Sullivan St.
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-998-6430
Fax: 212-995-4031
Email: n/a
Contact: n/a

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: law school program with cases in juvenile delinquency

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Lawyers for Children, Inc.
110 Lafayette St., 8th floor
New York, NY 10013
Phone: 212-966-6420
Fax: 212-966-0531
Email: n/a
Contact: n/a

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: abuse and neglect, adoption, family law custody disputes, law guardian, HIV positive children, homeless youth, and voluntary foster care approval and review

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New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc.
30 W. 21st St., 9th floor
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212-727-2270
Fax: 212-727-2296
Email: nylpi@aol.com
Contact: Wendy Brennan, Director of Private Bar Involvement

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: special education and transactional work on behalf of community based organizations, many of which serve children

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Volunteers of Legal Service
54 Greene St.
New York, NY 10013-2603
Phone: 212-966-4400
Fax: 212-249-2362
Email: volsprobono@worldnet.att.net
Contact: Sara Effron, Assistant Director

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: foster care and immigration

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Welfare Law Center
275 Seventh Ave., Suite 1205
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-633-6967
Fax: 212-633-6371
Email: freedman@welfarelaw.org
Contact: Henry Freedman, Executive Director

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: impact litigation and other legal representation seeking systemic change in programs related to basic income support

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Children's Rights and Family Law Clinic
Syracuse University College of Law
P.O. Box 6543
Syracuse, NY 13217-6543
Phone: 315-443-4582
Fax: 315-443-3636
Email: aoburton@law.syr.edu
Contact: Professor Angela Burton, Director

Substantive areas in which volunteer lawyers are needed: law school program with cases in public benefits, housing, special education, suspension, emancipation, guardianships, AIDS-related issues, and family law