If You Need Legal Help

Ways to get legal help and information:

The Legal Resource Finder. The Legal Resource Finder (LRF) will help you find out whether there is a legal aid program that might be able to help you with your legal problem. It will also give you links to information that will help you to learn more about your legal issue. The LRF only includes information about civil issues, not criminal issues. Click here for the Legal Resource Finder.

You can get legal information at MassLegalHelp, Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries, and MassLegalServices.

The Committee for Public Counsel Services provides public defenders for low-income people in criminal cases and in certain other types of cases. Click here for more information. 

If you want to hire a lawyer for a criminal, personal injury, worker's compensation or other type of case, see this list of lawyer referral services.

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Other kinds of help:

Domestic Violence
  • Call SafeLink at 1-877-785-2020. Callers to SafeLink receive confidential "help at the end of the line" 24 hours a day, every day of the year. SafeLink's specially trained advocates provide support in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and have access to TTY (877-521-2601) and translation services through on-call specialists at the ATT Language Line. That resource can provide simultaneous interpretation in over 140 languages, giving SafeLink the capacity to respond to most callers in their native language. See the
For Seniors
Child Abuse or Neglect
Abuse or Neglect of Persons with Disabilities
Disaster Assistance