Legal Referrals
The Office of Legal Affairs will not provide legal advice to individual members of the RIT community relative to personal legal issues. For assistance with such matters, please consult one of these local services for help:
Hyatt Legal Services
RIT offers employees an opportunity to participate in MetLife's Hyatt Legal Plan, a leading provider of group legal services. Hyatt Legal Plan is now available at over 300 organizations in the U.S. and provides legal services to over a million plan participants.
If you do not currently participate in the Hyatt Legal Plan and you want more details please read this information.
If you are a participant in the Hyatt Legal Plan and you want more details please read this information.
If you want to contact Hyatt Legal Services by phone, please call (800) 821-6400/voice or (800) 821-5955/TTY.
Service representatives are available Eastern time as follows:
Monday: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Tuesday - Thursday: 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Monroe County Bar Association
Lawyer Referral Service - http://www.mcba.org/Public/Referral/
(585) 546-2130
How to Choose a Lawyer - http://www.mcba.org/Public/Howtochoose/
New York State Bar Association
Referral Service - (800) 342-3661
Student - Personal Legal Matters
The Center for Campus Life has retained a private attorney to assist students with their personal legal matters. To schedule an appointment with this attorney or to get more information about this service, please contact the Student Government Office at: 475-2204.
