Special Projects

Health Care Access Project: Advice and representation to low-income people in matters involving Medicaid eligibility, denials and reductions in medical care, NJ FamilyCare, Medicare, PAAD program, Charity care, disputes that involve commercial insurance coverage, COBRA issues, access to medical records, privacy issues, limited English proficiency, lead poisoning, and access to services for the uninsured, including mental health and substance abuse treatment and other affirmative advocacy to expand health care access rights.

Home Preservation Project: Advice and Representation of low-income homeowners in disputes arising from subprime mortgages and foreclosure rescue scams.

Housing for People Affected by HIV/AIDS: A collaborative project with NORWESCAP that provides comprehensive and coordinated services to assist people affected by HIVS/AIDS secure and maintain affordable housing. LSNWJ provides legal assistance in matters affecting the client’s housing, while NORWESCAP provides case management, emergency assistance and temporary rental assistance.

Language Services Initiative: LSNWJ delivers quality legal services to clients in their preferred language. LSNWJ provides language services as needed to ensure that limited English proficient (LEP) clients have meaningful access to LSNWJ services. Language services include professional on-staff English-Spanish interpreter-translator; assignment of bilingual advocates to LEP clients, and contracted professional in-person and telephone-based interpreters and translators. In addition, LSNWJ offers training to agencies other entities on legal requirements to provide language access to services.

LIBRE (Legal Intervention Brings Recovery and Empowerment) Project: A collaborative project with the domestic abuse service providers in Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex and Warren Counties, LIBRE provides comprehensive and coordinated services to assist victims and survivors of domestic abuse. LSNWJ provides legal assistance in matters affecting the client’s essential needs, while the domestic abuse service agencies provide case management, counseling, safe shelter, and support groups.

Senior Legal Assistance: In cooperation with the County Offices on Aging, LSNWJ provides legal advice, representation and preparation of legal documents for people age 60 or older. There are no financial eligibility requirements for the Senior Legal Assistance Projects, however, the projects target the frail and vulnerable, minorities and impoverished.

Social Work Project: LSNWJ employs a social worker who provides client advocacy and case management services to clients. In addition, the social worker assists clients in developing plans and obtaining resources necessary to a successful resolution of the legal issues faced by the client.

Tenancy Project: LSNWJ attorneys appear in tenancy court each week. The judge announces from the bench that LSNWJ is available to provide advice and representation to financially eligible tenants who face eviction. Although LSNWJ is able to provide representation to tenants who appear in court without representation, LSNWJ encourages tenants who are served with a complaint for eviction to contact the office before the court date.

Workers' Legal Rights Project: Wage and hour law issues under the NJ Wage and Hour Laws and the Fair Labor Standards Act, family and medical leave issues, private long-term disability insurance, Temporary Disability Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, other private and public work insurance programs, cases involving barriers to employment (e.g., criminal records, motor vehicle infractions, child abuse registry determinations), Workforce Development, employment discrimination, whistleblower retaliation, job application issues, and employment aspects of welfare, SSI Ticket-to-Work, and domestic violence.

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