Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) provides free legal representation and legal advice to low-income individuals and families in civil cases in the Boston area. GBLS also engages in systemic litigation, class actions, and legislative advocacy on behalf of its clients.
Services:
- CORI, Record Sealing, & Reentry: For help with criminal and juvenile record sealing, expungement & CORI problems: Email cori@gbls.org or leave a message with your name, address and phone number at 617-603-1797.
- Consumer Rights: Predatory lending and loan modifications
- Debt Collection & Bankruptcy: Filing for bankruptcy, contesting consumer dept
- Education and School to Prison Pipeline: Assisting students facing expungement, special education advocacy, students with disabilities advocacy
- Employment Law: Workers rights and unemployment benefits, wage theft, paid family and medical leave, sick leave, visas for immigrant survivors of labor trafficking or workplace crimes
- Family: Divorce, custody and child support, domestic violence, emergency orders of protection
- Government Benefits: Food Stamps, SNAP, Childcare benefits
- Healthcare Benefits & Nursing Home Rights: Medicare & MassHealth Advocacy, protection for nursing home residents
- Housing: Eviction defense, tenants’ rights, foreclosure prevention
- Immigration: Citizenship support, unaccompanied minors, asylum status
- Shelter: Access to emergency shelter for families and pregnant women
- Social Security, SSI, and State Benefits: Social security disability and retirement benefits, advocacy for SSI and emergency assistance for elderly and disabled
- Taxes: tax preparation, earned income tax credit, IRS assistance