Official NY OCA attorney registration data · Updated 2026 Methodology Discipline records
Nonprofit legal services

Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc.

41 attorneys in the New York State Bar registry list this organization as their firm or employer.

About Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc.

Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. describes itself as a not-for-profit public interest law firm that offers free legal aid to low-income individuals. Its stated mission is to give people who face financial hardship, disability, discrimination, or abuse access to legal advice, representation, and education about their civil legal rights, and it has served Western New York since 1976.

The organization's work covers housing matters such as evictions, unsafe conditions, and landlord/tenant concerns, family matters including domestic violence, custody, visitation, divorce, and support, and public benefits. Its listed areas also include disability law and basic estate planning. Its listed funders are the Legal Services Corporation and IOLA. Its office locations in New York State are in Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Lockport, and Batavia. It serves Erie, Niagara, Genesee, Orleans, and Wyoming counties.

TypeNonprofit legal services
New York officesBuffalo, Niagara Falls, Lockport, Batavia
Phone(716) 847-0650
Websitenls.org
Registered NY attorneys41

Practice areas

Areas of work that Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. describes on its own website. They describe the organization as a whole, not the practice of any individual attorney listed below.

Landlord-Tenant Family & Divorce Trusts & Estates Civil Rights

Organization profile based on its official website and public sources (reviewed October 29, 2026). Attorney list from the New York State Unified Court System registration data. Not affiliated with Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc..

Registered attorneys

John Zonitch Admitted 1981 · Batavia, NY Currently registered Katherine Anderson Admitted 1982 · Buffalo, NY Suspended Grace Andriette Admitted 1988 · Buffalo, NY Currently registered Kim Murphy Admitted 1990 · Buffalo, NY Currently registered Jennifer Dillon Admitted 1991 · Buffalo, NY Currently registered William O'Connell Admitted 1998 · Buffalo, NY Currently registered Todd Schiffmacher Admitted 1999 · Buffalo, NY Currently registered John Hocieniec Admitted 2003 · Buffalo, NY Currently registered Diana Proske Admitted 2004 · Buffalo, NY Currently registered Mary Hanson Admitted 2009 · Batavia, NY Currently registered
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