South Brooklyn Legal Services

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The mission of South Brooklyn Legal Services (SBLS), created in 1968, is to seek equal justice for low-income people in Southern and Western Brooklyn by providing a broad range of legal advocacy and information. In pursuing this goal, the office works with individual clients and client groups to identify and address their legal needs, to help empower low-income people to identify and defeat the causes and effects of poverty in their communities, to focus on matters that will have the greatest impact for low-income people and to work in partnership with the private bar and with other agencies and organizations serving low-income people.

Areas of Priority and Special Projects Include:

• Housing
• Family
• Government Benefits
• HIV/AIDS
• Consumer
• Employment
• Health
• Education
• Rights of People with Disabilities
• Community Education & Empowerment
• Foreclosure Prevention
• Child Care

 
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Location:

105 Court Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Tel: (718) 237-5500
Fax: (718) 855-0733

John C. Gray,  Project Director

 Areas served (by zip code): 11201, 11203, 11205, 11209, 11210, 11214, 11215, 11217, 11218, 11220, 11223, 11224, 11226, 11228, 11229, 11230, 11231, 11232, 11234, 11238.