'Ambulance for business': online legal clinic opened in New York
'16.04.2020'
ForumDaily New York
In a difficult epidemiological situation, small businesses will be remotely provided with free legal assistance. This is stated in a press release from the New York City Department of Justice.
The Pro Bono COVID-19 Remote Legal Clinic for Business is a project of the City Bar Justice Center. Its main goal is to help small businesses gain access to various opportunities through federal and local programs.
As part of the Neighborhood Entrepreneur Law Project (NELP) of the City Justice Center, the legal clinic will offer qualified New York small businesses free 45-minute consultations with volunteer lawyers. Specialists will answer various legal questions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, you can get answers to questions regarding loans, grants, business contracts, labor relations and employment, commercial leasing, taxes and insurance.
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The legal clinic is the starting point of a larger national project, implemented in conjunction with Lawyers for Good Government and dozens of law firms.
The project was launched in New York City by the City Justice Advocate Center in partnership with the law firm Kirkland & Ellis and several other law firms. Among them are Cleary Gottlieb, Mayer Brown, Orrick, Proskauer and Sullivan & Cromwell, who train volunteers and provide information support to businessmen.
“We are grateful that the experience of our NELP project, as well as the law firm and in-house partners, allows us to start acting to help small businesses in these unprecedented times,” said Law Center Executive Director Lynn M. Kelly. "Our society and the economy itself depend on the health of our small business."
For help small businesses need to go at this link.
Members of the city college of lawyers and partners of law firms who wish take part in volunteer activitiesmay fill volunteer registration form or contact consultant Kurt M. Denk at [email protected].
More information you can get on the site of the New York City Law Center for Justice here.
Additional Information
City Bar Justice Center provides free legal services to low-income clients throughout New York. He is a member of the New York City Bar Association Fund, Inc., 501 Corporation.
Neighborhood Entrepreneur Law Project (NELP) owned by Akir Arroyo, who launched the project after September 11 to help small businesses crashed as a result of that tragedy. For nearly 20 years, he has assisted more than 15 small enterprises in setting up corporations, concluding contracts, and a number of other legal advice.
For many years, NELP has been working with non-governmental organizations that help small businesses, as well as dozens of law firms and corporate law departments that provide volunteer lawyers.