Legal Clinic for the Homeless

The Massachusetts Legal Clinic for the Homeless (MLCH) was established in 1994 as a unique collaborative of six of the state’s largest law firms, to provide on-site legal services to the residents of the Pine Street Inn and to assist other groups in carrying out similar clinic programs.

We now serve clients at:

• Pine Street Inn
• St. Francis House
• Cardinal Medeiros Center (a program of Kit Clark Senior Services)
• hopeFound (formerly Friends of the Shattuck Shelter)

The Clearinghouse is seeking firms interested in joining nine of the area’s larger law firms in providing legal services at the Clinic twice a year. These firms include:

• Brown Rudnick, LLP
• Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
• Edwards Wildman
• Goulston & Storrs, P.C.
• Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
• Nixon Peabody LLP
• Nolan Sheehan Patten LLP
• Ropes & Gray LLP
• Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

For more information or to volunteer, contact Maribeth Perry at (617) 778-1980.

Downloadable Forms for MLCH

• MLCH Intake Form
• MLCH Authorization of Representation Form
• Massachusetts CORI Form
• SSA Appointment of Representative Form
• MLCH Shelter Counselor Release Form
• MLCH Plan of Action Form
• MLCH Case Closure Form
• MLCH Resource Guide
• Clinic Handout 2010