Nassau Suffolk Law Services Committee, Inc.'s Suffolk Pro Bono Project and the Volunteer Lawyers Project- Nassau, The Richard C. Failla LGBTQ Commission of the NYS Courts, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF), Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center's ACLU Student Group, Fostering LGBTQ+ Openness and Respect Alliance (FLORA) Student Group, Public Advocacy Center, and The Office of Diversity & Inclusion are working together to coordinate pro bono legal name change services to low-income transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people.

For many transgender people, securing a legal name change is an important step toward making their legal identities match their lived experience.

A lack of appropriate identity documents can deter people from applying for jobs, school, and public benefits, and can lead to discrimination. But securing a legal name change can be a challenging experience, involving interaction with the court system and judges that is foreign to many people.

By providing transgender people with legal representation, we work to ensure that people successfully complete the process and move forward with their lives.

Please use this form to sign up to be a volunteer to assist in a name change. Someone will follow up with you. If you don't hear anything within one week, please feel free to call (631) 232-2400 and ask for Sharon Campo. 

Information you provide when registering/signing up will be shared with the account owner and sponsors of this training program/collaboration.