ALA-MA Partners

• Boston University School of Law
• Community Legal Aid
• Domestic Violence Ended (DOVE)
• Greater Boston Legal Services, Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services
• Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
• Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee
• Northeast Legal Aid
• South Coastal Counties Legal Services, Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts
• Veterans Legal Services

Boston University School of Law
Boston

Boston University is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world. The BU Law Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program (“IRHTP”), launched in July 2017, combines BU Law’s nationally recognized Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and the Human Trafficking Clinic. In IRHTP, advocates learn practical legal skills while providing pro bono representation to vulnerable non-citizens facing deportation and survivors of human trafficking. Advocates in IRHTP represent clients with a variety of legal issues, including supporting clients to apply for immigration status and defend against removal, recover unpaid wages, participate as victim-witnesses in the criminal legal process, and seal or vacate criminal records. 

• Opening: Immigration Rights and Human Trafficking Advocate (Boston - FILLED) 

Community Legal Aid
Worcester, Springfield, Northampton

Community Legal Aid is the state-funded civil legal aid program serving central and western Massachusetts. Central West Justice Center is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CLA. These programs provide free legal assistance to low-income clients in the areas of elder law, housing law, immigration law, government benefits and unemployment compensation, family law, and discrimination. Our mission is to improve the lives of low-income and elderly people through legal assistance that protects fundamental rights, secures access to basic needs, and challenges policies and practices that harm our clients. Regions: Central and Western Massachusetts. 

• Opening: Elder Advocate (Western MA - FILLED) 
• Opening: Education Advocate (Worcester or Western MA - FILLED) 

Domestic Violence Ended (DOVE)
Quincy

DOVE's mission is "Hope, healing, safety, social change. Working together to end domestic and partner violence." DOVE is a multi-disciplinary service organization providing domestic violence trauma recovery counseling for adults and children, emergency shelter, housing assistance and economic empowerment, community outreach, and teen dating violence prevention. DOVE has attorneys who specialize in family, housing, and immigration law relating to issues of domestic violence, offering legal advice, advocacy, and representation. All services are free. To be eligible for legal services, clients must be survivors of intimate partner abuse and be residents of or have a legal case in Norfolk County.

Opening: Generalist (Housing, Immigration and Family Law) (Quincy - FILLED)

Greater Boston Legal Services, Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services
Boston, Cambridge

Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a professional team of attorneys and paralegals providing most needed legal advice and representation for low-income individuals in Massachusetts. GBLS programs cover several different critical service areas that include housing, employment, immigration, family law, CORI and Re-entry project, consumer rights, welfare and public assistance law, and the protection of elderly and people with disability. Thousands of low-income individuals and families are served directly through legal representations as well as through GBLS systemic advocacy work on behalf of our clients and the community. Region: Greater Boston. 

• Opening: Consumer Advocate (Boston - FILLED) 
• Opening: Employment Advocate (Boston - FILLED) 
• Opening: Elder, Health and Disability Law Advocate (Boston - FILLED) 
• Opening: Criminal Records Advocate (Boston - FILLED)  
• Opening: Housing/Benefits Advocate (Cambridge - FILLED) 

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
Boston

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute is the statewide legal services support center. MLRI advocates for low-income people, minorities, immigrants, elders, and people with disabilities in their struggles for basic human needs; defends against measures that harm people living in poverty; advocates for systemic reforms that achieve social justice; and provide support that will enable others to carry out these objectives. Region: Greater Boston. 

• Opening: Family Law/Economic Justice (Boston - FILLED) 
• Opening: Housing Advocate (Boston - FILLED) 

Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee
Quincy

The Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee is a state agency within the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts charged with advising and advocating for indigent individuals with mental health issues on a range of legal matters. Its central priority is to address those concerns that are most closely related to clients' ability to live full and independent lives. MHLAC does legal work in areas including mental health law, rights in institutional settings, restraint, education and special education law, juvenile justice law, family law, guardianship matters, access to mental health care, mental health insurance reform, and insurance discrimination. Region: Greater Boston. 

• Opening: Mental Health Law Advocate - Schools and Courts (Quincy - FILLED) 
• Opening: Mental Health Law Advocate - Family Law (Quincy - FILLED)

Northeast Legal Aid
Lynn, Lowell, Lawrence

The mission of Northeast Legal Aid and its subsidiary, the Northeast Justice Center, (referred to jointly as NLA) is to help low-income and elderly people of northeastern Massachusetts obtain justice and empowerment through skillful, creative, and persistent advocacy for systemic change and high-quality representation of individuals. NLA provides free legal assistance in the following areas of law: housing, family/domestic violence, elder, immigration, consumer, employment, tax, family preservation, education, community development, criminal record sealing, re-entry assistance, assistance to victims of crimes, and pro bono volunteer assistance and support. Client eligibility is determined by income and geographic location. Region: Northeast Massachusetts. 

• Opening: Housing Advocate (Lowell - FILLED) 
• Opening: Immigration Advocate (Lynn - FILLED) 
• Opening: Disability/Consumer Law (Lawrence - FILLED)

South Coastal Counties Legal Services, Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts
Fall River, New Bedford, Brockton, and Hyannis

SCCLS and its subsidiary, the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts (JCSM), with a combined staff of nearly 80, is the principal provider of free, civil legal aid to low-income residents of Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. SCCLS law offices are located in Hyannis, New Bedford, Brockton, and Fall River. The Justice Center is located in Brockton. SCCLS’ core mission is to achieve justice for eligible clients through community-based advocacy. The organization prioritizes legal services in: housing, public benefits, elder law, domestic relations, employment, education, immigration, and consumer matters.  Region: Southeast Massachusetts. 

• Opening: Education Law Advocate (Brockton - FILLED) 
• Opening: Family Law (Fall River - FILLED) 
• Opening:  Generalist for Victims of Crime (Fall River - FILLED)
• Opening: Immigration Law Advocate (Brockton - FILLED)
• Openings: Immigration Law Advocate (Brockton - FILLED) 
• Opening:  Medical Legal Partnership Advocate (Brockton - FILLED)
• Opening:  Benefits Law (New Bedford _ FILLED) 

Veterans Legal Services
Boston

Veterans Legal Services promotes equity by providing free and comprehensive civil legal aid services to economically disadvantaged military veterans in Massachusetts. VLS helps former service members obtain the stability and financial security necessary to live the healthy, happy, and dignified lives they deserve.

​​​VLS partners with veterans' services organizations throughout Massachusetts because legal aid is an essential service in the holistic care of veterans. VLS specializes in eviction/homelessness prevention, helping veterans access financial and medical benefits, appealing discharge orders, and promoting healthy family relationships by securing equitable divorce, child custody, parenting time, and child support arrangements. Region: Greater Boston.

• Opening:  Generalist (Boston - FILLED)