Legal and Advocacy Resources
Rutgers Law School Legal Services
View website below for specific locations and phone numbers for different services.
Offers range of services from criminal defense and advocacy clinic, immigration rights, housing justice, domestic violence, constitutional rights, medical-legal partnerships, women’s rights and gender justice, and more.
Center for Hope and Safety
12 Overlook Ave, Rochelle Park, NJ
Call: 201-498-9247
Open Monday - Friday, 9am to 5pm
Bergen County’s only free in-house legal services program for victims of domestic violence. Services include Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs), Final Restraining Orders (FROs) and appeals, custody, visitation, and child support matters, spousal support, immigration, divorce and more.
Volunteer Lawyers for Justice
PO Box 32040, Newark, NJ 07102
Call: (973) 645-1955
Free civil legal services on certain New Jersey matters to people experiencing poverty. Apply online or over the phone. Services include eviction defense, divorce, consumer debt defense, legal name change, and more.
Click here to view the different services offered by Volunteer Lawyers for Justice.
Legal Services of New Jersey
For legal assistance questions, Call: 1-888-LSNJ-LAW (1-888-576-5529)
Essential civil legal aid for all economically disadvantaged people who cannot secure a lawyer on their own. This belief in the importance of legal assistance to indigent people stems from an underlying concern with fairness, and a conviction that important legal needs of individuals should be addressed.
Catholic Charities Diocese of Paterson
212 Slater Street, Paterson, NJ 07501.
Call: (973) 279-7100.
Legal Services for Immigration provides legal consultation, assistance, and representation to clients of limited means from all nationalities, ethnicities, and religions in the northern and central New Jersey areas.
Northeast New Jersey Legal Services
Passaic and Bergen County Locations.
Walk-ins welcome, Open Monday - Friday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM. Call: (973) 523-2900.
Ensure equal access for low income residents of Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson County. Offers a range of services from family law, housing, immigration, veterans, family law, domestic violence, and more.