Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A's purpose and goal is to provide high-quality legal assistance to low-income individuals and community groups in North and East Brooklyn. We view legal assistance in terms of community development, education, and mobilization, as well as traditional representation. To that end we partner with and provide legal services to effective local grassroots organizations that have a demonstrated commitment to our common goal of social and economic justice.

We defend the rights and dignity of our clients against unlawful, demeaning conditions, while working shoulder to shoulder with grassroots organizations groups to build and sustain the community and its infrastructure. The promise of community-based legal services has been undermined by congressional restrictions imposed in the mid-1990s that limited federal funding and narrowed the scope of services we could provide. In response to these cutbacks, many federally funded legal services programs centralized their services in downtown areas near the courthouses, requiring clients to travel to them. Brooklyn A has bucked this trend, not only by remaining in our communities by but expanding our local presence.