Dear Friend of Legal Key,
In 2025, health and social services care teams have been confronted with their patients’ unimaginably challenging legal problems. They want to help, but are overwhelmed by complex laws and high-stakes situations.
It turns out you don’t have to be a lawyer to address many health-harming legal issues. Legal Key makes legal information available and understandable for care professionals — not just lawyers.
Since our founding in 1993 as the nation’s first medical-legal partnership, Legal Key’s work has helped to uplift that law and health are intrinsically connected. The evidence is clear: integrating legal problem-solving strategies into health care makes systems more efficient and patients healthier.
Legal Key’s approach to legal education and support is something that care teams can’t get anywhere else. We explain complex and rapidly changing laws. We empower people to spot legal problems without needing to call a lawyer. And we create actionable tools that can help make all the difference.
Never has the partnership between law, health care, and social care been more consequential. In recent months, Legal Key partners have used our support to stop evictions, navigate court, apply for identity documents, keep kids in school, preserve benefits, and more.
The demand for Legal Key’s services, in the face of our turbulent political and legal landscape, will only grow in 2026. Your donation in any amount can help us continue to meet the moment.
In solidarity,
© 2025 Third Sector New England, Inc., on behalf of Legal Key, All Rights Reserved
Legal Key Partnership for Health and Justice envisions a society where information about legal rights and systems is widely accessible and used to help people to thrive. To realize this vision, Legal Key’s mission is to create access to legal knowledge for health and social service sectors and empowers those communities to use legal problem-solving to improve wellbeing. Through legal education, workforce support and social care program design, Legal Key impacts systems, care professionals, and the individuals they serve.
Legal Key is a fiscally sponsored organization of Third Sector New England.
Information contained in this newsletter is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or establish an attorney-client relationship.