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Shearman & Sterling Pro Bonos Achieve Victory for FLU Client
NYLAG’s Pro Bono project recently won a victory in a Family Court case for an elderly client.
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Lance Armstrong Foundation Honors LegalHealth with Prestigious E. Lee Walker Award
The Lance Armstrong Foundation recognized NYLAG’s LegalHealth Unit for improving the quality of life, access to healthcare, and financial situations of vulnerable cancer patients across the country.
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Family Law Unit Director Honored for Work in Family Court
Kim Susser, Director of NYLAG’s Family Law Unit, was awarded the New York City Bar Association’s Kathryn A. McDonald Award for Excellence in Service to Family Court.
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NYLAG and UJA-Federation of New York Collaborate to Help New Yorkers Affected by the Economic Recession
NYLAG’s General Legal Services Unit provides free legal services to people finding themselves in financial crisis because of the current economic recession.
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Appellate Project Preserves Order of Protection
In a recent case cited as a “case of interest” in the New York Law Journal NYLAG’s Domestic Violence Appellate Representation Project scored another win.
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Family Law Unit Director Honored for Work in Family Court
Kim Susser, Director of NYLAG’s Matrimonial and Family Law Unit, was awarded the New York City Bar Association’s Kathryn A. McDonald Award for Excellence in Service to Family Court.
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FLU Welcomes New Paralegal
A new paralegal joined NYLAG’s Family Law Unit.
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LGBT Law Project Secures Justice and Safety for DV Victim
NYLAG launched its LGBT Project last fall to ensure that low-income members of the LGBT community have access to justice on a myriad of legal matters.
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IPU Collaborates with U.S. Senator Gillibrand to Reunite Family
When the U.S. Department of State refused to issue a Visitor’s Visa to a father who wanted to visit his dying teenage son in New York, NYLAG’s Immigrant Protection Unit (IPU) intervened.
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Skadden Fellow and Former Intern Joins Family Law Unit
NYLAG’s Matrimonial and Family Law Unit added a tenth attorney to its team in March.
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Yisroel Schulman
I am the co-founder and president of the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), which provides free civil legal services for New York’s most vulnerable citizens. I have devoted my career to harnessing the power of the law to advance the struggle for justice and empower the abject and working poor in New York.
Public Interest First is a place for me to share my thoughts about issues and events that matter, for NYLAG and for me personally. I will try to be interesting and at least occasionally provocative, but most of all succinct. I invite you to check back weekly for more posts.
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