New offices in Greenfield mark expansion for Community Legal Aid (Greenfield Recorder)
Below is an excerpt of an article published in the Greenfield Recorder on December 9 discussing the recent expansion of Community Legal Aid offices into Greenfield. Community Legal Aid’s Jennifer Dieringer is quoted.
GREENFIELD — After decades working out of a satellite office on Federal Street, Community Legal Aid has found a new home in downtown Greenfield.
Community Legal Aid, which provides free civil legal services to low-income and elderly residents in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and Worcester counties, officially welcomed the public to its new home at 14 Hope St., Suite 104, on Nov. 19. The same building also houses the Greenfield Recorder offices.
Following renovations to the building, Community Legal Aid finally has a full office in Franklin County. It had operated out of a satellite office on Federal Street for about 30 years, working on 387 cases with more than 1,000 residents just last year, according to Managing Attorney Jennifer Dieringer. The new digs on Hope Street, she said, will serve as an opportunity for Community Legal Aid to expand its offerings to Franklin County residents.
“This is the first time in about three decades that we have a fully staffed and fully opened office. We’ve always served Franklin County, but now we are really able to expand our services and have a full-time presence here, which is really exciting,” Dieringer said in an interview in her new office. “Historically, folks working out of our Northampton offices served Hampshire and Franklin counties, so what we’re doing now is building out the office here so we’ll basically double our resources for Franklin County.”
Read more at the Greenfield Recorder.
