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Background

MassLegalHelp.org is one of three statewide websites that make up the Massachusetts Legal Websites Project. The project is a collaborative effort of the civil legal aid community of Massachusetts. We are funded by Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation.

Other websites included in this project are:

•  MassLegalServices.org offers resources about legal issues facing lower-income Massachusetts residents to advocates and social service professionals; and 
• support to other legal services programs across the state with their websites.

The mission of MassLegalHelp.org  is to improve access to justice for low income and disadvantaged persons through innovative use of the Web.  We are working to  connect, support, and educate advocates and the general public. The content of the website is written by people within the legal services community.

The MassLegalHelp.org web team

A Steering Committee

The Steering Committee guides the work of the whole website project, including MassLegalHelp. The Committee advises us of the best way to spend our time, how to spend our limited resources and helps make difficult decisions. It is made up of representatives from legal services programs across the state.

An Editorial Board

Jeff Wolf - Children and Families and Domestic Violence
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute

Annette Duke - Housing
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute

Michelle Lerner - Income and Benefits
formerly of Greater Boston Legal Services is now teleworking.

Susan Fendell - Mental Health
is the senior attorney at the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee

Donna Southwell is the director of policy analysis at Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation

A Website Coordinator

Caroline Robinson
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute

You

Massachusetts residents just getting by or trying to. You are a very important member of our team. Your suggestions and comments play a big part in the decisions we make.  Although we can not provide legal advice, we do our best to publish the kind of information that people who live in Massachusetts and contact us say they need.

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