About Her Justice


Our Mission


Her Justice stands with women living in poverty in New York City by recruiting and mentoring volunteer lawyers to provide free legal help to address individual and systemic legal barriers. Through our pro bono first model, we pair thousands of volunteer attorneys with women who have urgent legal needs in the areas of family, matrimonial, and immigration law. We couple our direct legal services with advocacy for policy reform that is fueled by the deep expertise of our lawyers and the invaluable experiences of our clients.  Taken together, our two-pronged approach combats barriers built into our civil justice system which reinforce and exacerbate gender, racial, and economic imbalances to the detriment of our clients and other New Yorkers.

Our Clients


Her Justice provides legal services to women living in poverty in New York City who cannot afford to retain lawyers. In Fiscal Year 2023, we served 4,131 women and children — speaking 27 languages — across all five boroughs of New York City. Among our clients, 93% were women of color, 86% were survivors of intimate partner violence, 70% were mothers, and 51% needed an interpreter in court. Her Justice offers information, advice, brief services, and full representation in support, custody, visitation, and order of protection matters in Family Court; divorces in Supreme Court; and immigration matters under the Violence Against Women Act in federal proceedings. 

Our Policy & Advocacy Work


Her Justice’s Policy Agenda is informed by the lived experiences of our clients. We work to reform the civil justice system such that it produces the most favorable outcomes for women like our clients, through processes that are as equitable, empowering, and efficient as possible. We do this because having a civil justice system we can count on is essential for all of us — and especially for women like our clients. It’s where they turn to obtain child support they’re owed, to get work authorization, to free themselves from debts they did not fairly incur, and to seek safety through an order of protection. All of these tools help women build the future they want for themselves and their children.