About NYLAG:

• Founded in 1990, NYLAG is a leading civil legal services organization combatting economic, racial, and social injustice by advocating for people experiencing poverty or in crisis.


• Our services include comprehensive, free civil legal services, financial empowerment, impact litigation, policy advocacy, and community partnerships.
• NYLAG exists because wealth should not determine who has access to justice.
• We aim to disrupt systemic racism by serving individuals and families whose legal and financial crises are often rooted in racial inequality.
• NYLAG goes to where the need is, providing services in more than 150 community sites (e.g. courts, hospitals, libraries) and on our Mobile Legal Help Center.
• NYLAG’s staff of over 400 impacted the lives of nearly 129,000 people last year.
• Job description NYLAG seeks a highly motivated temporary staff attorney within our Domestic Violence Law Unit.