Jeffrey Wolf was a legal services staff attorney from 1975 to 2012. His work was mainly in the areas of family law and domestic violence law. From 1975 to 2002, he was legal director and a family law staff attorney at Community Legal Services & Counseling Center (CLSACC), where he represented CLSACC clients, primarily survivors of domestic violence, in family law cases; recruited, trained, and supervised volunteer attorneys; worked for systemic reform; and provided community legal education.
From 2002 through 2011, Jeff was a family law staff attorney at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) in Boston, a legal services statewide back-up, support, and advocacy center for legal services programs. At MLRI, Jeff advocated and collaborated with other advocates for systemic improvements in a wide variety of family law issues that affect victims of domestic violence and low-income people, including divorce, child custody and visitation, safety, child support, and other matters affecting family financial security. He produced numerous community legal education family law and domestic violence webpages for MassLegalHelp.org, a legal services public access website operating out of MLRI.
Since 2012, Jeff has continued producing webpages with MassLegalHelp, as senior editor for the Children and Families and Domestic Violence sections, and with CLSACC is developing and participating in various collaborative relationships and initiatives related to family law and domestic violence.
Jeff received his J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 1973 and his B.A. from Harvard University in 1968.
As an Access to Justice Fellow, Jeff will continue working with CLSACC and MassLegalHelp. He will work with them, along with Court personnel, other lawyers, and non-lawyer domestic violence advocates, to develop and implement collaborative systemic initiatives to improve access to the courts for people with low incomes, people with low literacy, people without legal representation, survivors of domestic violence, and members of diverse linguistic and cultural communities.