Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service

Mission: To provide life-changing legal services to low-income Marylanders while addressing systemic inequities and advocating for a fairer legal system.

MVLS is a legal services nonprofit organization that works with staff attorneys and over 1,000 volunteers across the state of Maryland to provide legal services to low income Marylanders in the areas of family law, housing, consumer, expungement, estate planning and administration and income tax.

MVLS directly helps Marylanders facing legal challenges, while also fighting to change systems that harm people living in or near poverty. MVLS accomplishes this through pro bono representation, community engagement, and legislative and administrative advocacy. Our volunteer attorneys and tax professionals help individual clients resolve their life changing civil issues. MVLS staff attorneys build on that impact by building meaningful community partnerships and identifying specific inequities that are borne out in our clients’ stories and in the legal system at large. We leverage this knowledge to advocate for more equitable laws.