Business Description
SLSO provides free legal assistance to UMass students and student groups.
The Student Legal Services Office is a student-funded law office which provides legal assistance to fee-paying UMass students and student groups. We offer advice and/or referral in most legal matters affecting students, and can assist in identifying and solving legal problems. The SLSO employs three attorneys, a law office administrator, outreach coordinator, law clerks and undergraduate legal assistants through an internship program.
DISCLAIMER: Student Legal Services Office at the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides these web pages for general informational and educational purposes only as a service to University of Massachusetts Amherst students. Any information on these web pages is not, and is not intended to be, legal advice. Legal advice can be provided only in the course of an attorney-client relationship with reference to all the facts of a specific situation.
Address & Contact
- Street:
- 922 Campus Center
- Postcode:
- 01003
- City:
- Amherst
- State:
- Massachusetts
- Zip:
- 01003
- Phone:
- (413) 545-1995
- Website:
- www.umass.edu/rso/slso
- Category:
- Legal Law
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