Legal Services

Baltimore Community Mediation Center

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

Fair Housing Action Center of Maryland

The Tenant Advocacy program offers free information about tenant rights and responsibilities, including brief landlord-tenant legal advice on a range of topics.

Homeless Persons Representation Project

Call (410)-685-6589 to get help with expungement

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.

Maryland Legal Aid

To find free legal clinics, click on get help.

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

Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Services

Provides free legal services for civil (non-criminal) matters who meet certain income requirements

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

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

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

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.

Saint Ambrose Housing Aid Center

180 Homeshare for Returning Citizens

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

Operates in the fall and spring; call for an appointment.

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.