NYLAG: Mobile Legal Help Center Volunteer Opportunities

Mobile Legal Help Center Volunteer Opportunities

The Mobile Legal Help Center (MLHC) is the country’s first-ever legal services office and courtroom on wheels. On the MLHC, NYLAG staff provide counseling, advice, and direct representation on a variety of legal issues—from public benefits, family and matrimonial law, employment law, immigration and more—without leaving the vehicle. A video link with the courts enables access to judges for emergency hearings, including domestic violence and eviction cases.

NYLAG staff will be conducting legal clinics aboard the MLHC on the dates listed below. We invite participation from volunteer attorneys, law graduates and law students to help us provide legal services. Volunteers conduct intake interviews with MLHC visitors, and provide information and brief advice on a variety of legal issues. All volunteers are supervised by a NYLAG staff attorney who assists with evaluation of the legal issues raised during intake, and provides any guidance and support volunteers may need. Volunteers will have access to a recording of a webinar training on the MLHC intake process and will be sent training materials and intake guides.
                   
     
   
   Wednesday, September 21
9:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Assembly Member Hevesi
70-50 Austin Street
Forest Hills, Queens
Need 4 Volunteers

Thursday, September 22
9:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Council Member Eugene
900 Rogers Avenue
Flatbush, Brooklyn
Need 4 Volunteers

FULL: Friday, September 23
9:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Council Member Chin
Location TBD
Lower Manhattan


Monday, September 26
9:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Council Member Cohen
277 West 231st Street
Marble Hill, Bronx
Need 4 Volunteers

FULL: Tuesday, September 27 
9:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Midtown Community Court
314 West 54th Street
Midtown, Manhattan


Wednesday, September 28
9:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Crown Heights Mediation
250 Kingston Avenue
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Need 4 Volunteers

Friday, September 30
9:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Senator Croci
Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library
407 William Floyd Parkway
Shirley, Long Isand
Need 4 Volunteers

Mobile Legal Help Center Training Resources

• Click here to view a recording of the webinar training on conducting intakes aboard the MLHC and clinic logistics.
• Click here to view/ download a printable PDF of the presentation handout.