Intervening Early
“Legal Outreach, founded in 1983, is arguably the legal profession’s best example of an early-intervention pipeline program—and one of the few with a long-term track record.”
– The American Lawyer Magazine

Raising Standards
“There are few, if any, organizations that match Legal Outreach’s success in helping to improve high school graduation rates and matriculation rates to selective colleges.”
– Saul Shapiro, Partner, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Expanding Opportunities
“Legal Outreach gave me options and access to opportunities I would not otherwise have in the inner city. In my neighborhood no one emphasized education. I tried to teach my friends what I learned at Legal Outreach. It’s the difference between choosing which school you want to attend and not even knowing what the choices are.”
– Carolina Ramirez, LO ‘07, Sophomore, Tufts University

Empowering and Inspiring
“I view my involvement in Legal Outreach’s College Bound program as pivotal to everything I’ve been able to accomplish up until this point . . . Buoyed by academic success and inspired by the excitement of the adults associated with Legal Outreach, I began to view myself as a talented, powerful person with the potential to shape the world around me. Thus empowered, I was able to focus on my professional goals and to become more aggressive about seeking out further opportunities."
– Brittny Saunders, LO ’99. Harvard B.A., Harvard J.D.

Raising the bar for 25 years

For 25 years, Legal Outreach has been raising the bar of academic achievement for urban youth from underserved communities in New York City. Through rigorous and intensive legal and educational programs, Legal Outreach works with students from middle school through college to provide them with the vision, skills, and support they need to matriculate at selective colleges and competitive law schools.