Servicios legales

Maryland Legal Aid

State wide

Provides free legal representation to income eligible people in matters invovling debt collection, housing, employment and family law matters.

Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Services

Legal assistance to Marylanders with limited income at no cost. Assistance with family law (divorce, custody, adoption), housing (landlord/tenant issues, foreclosure), consumer debt and bankruptcy, tax issues, expungement, and estate planning. Statewide. Intake phone hours: Mon – Thursday, 9am – 12pm.

Out for Justice

Out for Justice, Inc. (OFJ) is an organization comprised of individuals who are both directly and indirectly impacted by the criminal justice system advocating for the reform of policies and practices that adversely affect successful reintegration into society.

People's Law Library of Maryland

State wide

This is a source of legal information and a self-help website maintained by the Maryland Judiciary and supported by Maryland's non-profit legal services providers, Maryland pro bono attorneys, and the legal academic community.

Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland

State wide

Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland does not provide lawyers for cases, but it does have clinics on specific dates for various legal issues. Check the website for those.

Public Justice Center

Baltimore City

provides legal counsel to tenants in eviction cases, to workers with wage theft claims and students who have been suspended or expelled.

Rebuild, Overcome, and Rise (ROAR) Center at University of MD, Baltimore

Provides a range of Free Legal Services for victims of crime. You don’t need to have reported the crime to the police to get help.

ROAR’s staff of attorneys, paralegal, social workers, and a community health nurse manager work collaboratively to aid survivors of crime and violence in Baltimore City attain “justice”, autonomy, and self-worth, as defined and directed by them. ROAR provides free legal, social work, counseling/therapy, and nurse care management services. ROAR is committed to being low-barrier, trauma-informed, trauma-responsive, and victim-defined. A survivor of crime does not have to have filed a police report to receive services from ROAR. ROAR has no immigration status restrictions and serves people who make less than $70,000 per year plus an additional $5k per year for each dependent. We assist people who do not have IDs, who have criminal backgrounds, and those for whom a warrant may be outstanding.

Restorative Response Baltimore

Mediation services for community, family, landlord tenant, employment, reentry conflicts.schools, workplace Free.

Saint Ambrose Housing Aid Center

St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center provides comprehensive housing services and quality affordable homes to meet the challenges facing homeowners, renters and neighborhoods in the Baltimore Area.

The Just Advice Project

Provides brief legal advice including expungements

United Way of Central Maryland

Call 211 for list of resources

Comprehensive referral line with links to over 4,000 health and human service programs throughout Maryland. Free.