The Rev. Dr. Elwood Worcester established a Free Legal Bureau, which was set up at the Emmanuel Memorial House in the South End under the direction of the Vicar of Church of the Ascension, The Rev. William A. Brade.  He reported in the Year Book of Emmanuel Parish  (pp. 168-70):

Some cases have required but a word of counsel, others have required time and care to adjust, and only in extreme cases has recourse been had to our courts….the wrong has, in many cases, been righted and the oppression removed as quietly and expeditiously as possible and at no expense.