Legal Services Toronto

We particularly center around weak populaces incorporating individuals living with HIV or an inability, older individuals, families with kids, abusive behavior at home survivors, migrants and individuals who are jobless.


We engage our clients by giving all encompassing, socially skillful and phonetically proper legitimate administrations which address the numerous lawful requirements of clients (lodging and public help or petitioning for a request for assurance while looking for guardianship, for instance).

Our promoters look for extremely durable change in the existences of the low pay clients they serve by working with local area occupants and suppliers to distinguish issues and to find answers for the various issues which influence their communities.

MLS has a long and fruitful history of working cooperatively with local area based associations in the low-pay networks of Manhattan including Chinatown, the Lower East Side, Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem and Washington Heights/Inwood. to resolve foundational issues, for example, the treatment of insane individuals by the government assistance framework, improvement and the deficiency of reasonable lodging, language access for LEP clients and unlawful obligation assortment.


We gladly follow our long history back to Harlem Assertion of Rights (later Harlem Legal Services) and MFY Legal Services, both area based enemy of neediness endeavors emerging in the 1960's, and endeavor to proceed with that heritage.

On one of the most extravagant islands on the planet, 85% of Manhattan Legal Services (MLS) clients live on under $15,000 year. We battle destitution and look for financial, social and racial equity for low-pay precinct occupants through the arrangement of free legitimate portrayal, fundamental promotion and local area schooling. Every year, MLS's supporters address and educate thousands regarding low pay occupants of Manhattan confronting emergencies.