Lawyers for Affordable Justice: Reasonably Priced Legal Help
Are you a student whose off-campus landlord won’t fix an unsafe condition? An immigrant struggling to navigate the government bureaucracy? A restaurant worker who isn’t getting paid for extra hours?
At Lawyers for Affordable Justice (LAJ), a new joint project of the Boston University School of Law, Boston College Law School, and the Northeastern University School of Law, low- and moderate-income people who need legal help can hire a determined lawyer at discounted rates.
The collaboration, whose Kenmore Square office, at 650 Beacon St., opened in January, was founded with help from an American Bar Association grant. What’s billed as a “legal incubator” brings together recent graduates from the partnering schools to provide legal services in four areas of civil law: immigrant rights, employment law, landlord-tenant matters, and small business law. No criminal law is practiced.