MFY Legal Services

About This Office

MFY was founded on the principle of equal access to justice through community-based legal representation of poor New Yorkers. Working in concert with neighborhood social service providers and community advocates, we reach out to those most in need to help resolve the problems faced by large numbers of low-income New Yorkers: housing, jobs, health care, entitlements, and family violence. We provide advice and representation to over 10,000 New Yorkers each year and initiate affirmative litigation that impacts many thousands of people. To extend our reach even further, we provide community-based legal education to social service providers, workers? centers, and community advocates while creating a wide array of volunteer opportunities for private attorneys and law students to furnish pro bono assistance on individual and class action cases.