After Legal Services Layoffs, Ex-Staffers Form Nonprofit Firm to Offer Sliding-Scale Options
When South Jersey Legal Services had to lay off 30 employees last year due to funding cuts, four former workers there saw an opportunity to “bridge the justice gap.”
They have hung out a new shingle as the nonprofit Community Law Offices Inc. It will offer consumer-oriented representation in New Jersey civil matters ranging from family law to immigration and social security, and provide sliding-scale representation for low-income individuals who can no longer look to South Jersey Legal Services, reports Shore News Today.
Executive director Jane Molt says she and three former SJLS lawyers expect to serve not only former clients of their ex-employer but individuals who earn a bit too much to qualify for government-funded legal services.
The new firms offices are located in the Cape May Courthouse and Vineland.
