Every week, Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) provides free legal assistance and representation on civil (noncriminal) matters to hundreds of the neediest residents in the city of Boston and 31 surrounding cities and towns. When they have nowhere else to turn, low-income families and individuals, elders, and people with disabilities look to GBLS for help to secure the most basic necessities of life.

To apply you can call the Main Office during regular hours: Monday-Friday, 9AM 5:00PM or come to the Main office during walk-in hours: 9 am - 12 pm. In emergency cases, an attorney can see you the same day. Otherwise, you will be given an appointment with an attorney for another day.

Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Mission Statement: Our mission is to provide free legal assistance to as many low-income families as possible to help them secure the most basic necessities of life. GBLS plays a unique role in the social service delivery system. It is the agency to which other providers refer clients when no one else can help and legal assistance is needed. Our clients are: victims of domestic violence and their children needing protections against abuse, homeless families seeking access to emergency shelter or permanent housing families facing destitution in need of subsistence benefits low-income renters facing possible homelessness elders and individuals with disabilities in need of critical income and medical benefits immigrants fleeing torture and persecution needing protection in our country and low-wage workers denied their earned wages and benefits.