Legal Aid Society

Projects, Units & Initiatives

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Projects, Units, Initiatives

Immigration Law Unit

The Legal Aid Society is a recognized community leader in providing comprehensive, high-quality immigration assistance to low-income New Yorkers. Our Immigration Law Unit (ILU) provides direct legal representation in a variety of relevant matters and...
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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...
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Video Mitigation

The Legal Aid Society is among the first state public defender organizations working in-house to explore our clients’ lives through video to convey their character, aspirations, traumas, difficulties, and often, transformation. In certain cases, video...
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Housing Justice Unit-Group Advocacy

The Housing Justice Unit-Group Advocacy works with eligible tenant groups, housing advocates, HDFC coop boards, and groups of shareholders, to promote and preserve affordable housing, improve housing conditions and prevent harassment and displacement throughout NYC’s...
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The Women’s Pretrial Release Initiative

In the fall of 2017, The Legal Aid Society launched The Women’s Pretrial Release Initiative (The Initiative). The Initiative is devoted to securing the release of women who are detained pretrial in New York City...
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The Cop Accountability Project

The Cop Accountability Project (CAP) of the Criminal Defense Practice’s Law Reform and Special Litigation Unit empowers organizations and communities across New York City to hold police accountable for human rights violations. CAP focuses on...
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Wrongful Conviction Unit

The Wrongful Conviction Unit continues to grow in size and outreach since its inception in 2019. As a result of tripling in size, the Unit has been able to take on more clients, reinvestigate their...
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Worker Justice Project

The Worker Justice Project, an initiative of The Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Defense Practice, combats discrimination faced by workers with arrest or conviction records living in New York City. Every day employers and licensing agencies...
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Low Income Taxpayer Clinic

The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) provides direct legal services to taxpayers who have personal income tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service or the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. Our work...
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Family Law and Domestic Violence Project

Our Family Law and Domestic Violence Practice provides legal services to survivors of domestic violence throughout New York City. Our services focus on providing support to survivors as they re-build after abuse. We are the...
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