Neighborhood Legal Services is focused on meeting the most critical individual legal needs of low income and elderly residents of Essex county, Massachusetts while also serving as a primary partner in efforts to revitalize the area's low income neighborhoods and communities, attack the root causes of poverty in the region, and reform local, state and national institutions and systems that harm the poor. We strive to provide these services in a welcoming, accessible environment and in a manner that is client-centered, client directed and builds the capacity of our client communities to speak powerfully with their own voice.