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MassLegalServices offers resources and information about legal issues facing lower income Massachusetts residents to legal services advocates and social services professionals. If you are not a lawyer or legal advocate, you will probably find MassLegalHelp more useful.
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Recent Library Content
10/07/2018 -
A number of housing courts in Massachusetts have Lawyer for the Day programs where lawyers provide unrepresented tenants and landlords with... Read more
10/16/2018 -
Materials from the FTC's Settlement with Real Page, a tenant screening reporter. Real Page agreed to pay $3 million to settle Federal... Read more
10/24/2018 -
Open enrollment in Mass. this year is Nov. 1, 2018 to Jan. 23, 2019. This is the time of year when people can buy individual (non-group)... Read more
09/21/2018 -
Although the formal rules of evidence do not apply in administrative hearings, the parties and the hearing officer must still properly... Read more
10/12/2018 -
Clients often come to DTA because they have a variety of service needs. These needs may be for resources that DTA does not directly provide... Read more