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In certain situations, Goldstein and Clegg, LLC has made it a point to represent those who can not afford legal services through our pro-bono legal program. Our office may provide legal services to Massachusetts indigent and low-income residents. IN other situations we have provided legal service at a discounted rate for those who can not afford our normal hourly rate. Our pro-bono program screens cases in most areas of civil law including family matters, landlord/tenant, consumer protection and helping college students start a business. Often, the pro bono work is conducted for the elderly or young students, who are on their own in the world, and have no financial support.
When Massachusetts attorneys are sworn in as members of the bar, they vow to defend the promise of the Massachusetts Constitution that "each citizen ought to obtain right and justice freely, and without being obliged to purchase it?" Moreover, The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has suggested every lawyer should but is not required to provide "annually at least 25 hours of pro bono publico legal services for the benefit of persons of limited means." With the SJC rule and the oath that both Attorney Goldstein and Clegg took upon being sworn in as lawyers in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, they have pledged to double that hourly suggestion and will perform 50 hours each, per year, of pro-bono legal work.
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