Community Education
New York’s homeless Girl Scout troop plans for the future
On January 15 NYLAG celebrated Martin Luther King Day with 48 girl scouts from Troop 6000, the first-ever troop created for homeless girls living in ...
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Consumer Protection Unit
Debt-collection firm settles class action lawsuit
Wall Street Journal article about the settlement of a lawsuit NYLAG and Hughes Hubbard brought against a debt collection company.
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Community Education
Give the gift of literary empathy
Check out this socially conscious reading gift guide—with a focus on immigration issues—written by NYLAG immigration attorney Elizabeth Gibson and published in the Huffington Post.
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In The News
Over 70,000 military sexual assaults took place last year. Congress must take action
NYLAG’s Samantha Kubek wrote this op-ed about sexual sexual assault in the military for Fox News.
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Government Benefits
Wait times for Social Security benefit appeals leave people in limbo
NYLAG's Miriam Hurwirz is quoted in this story in Marketplace
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Domestic Violence Law Unit
Domestic violence victims fear deportation for reporting crimes against them
Director of NYLAG's Matrimonial & Family Law Unit, Amanda Beltz, is quoted in this Truthout article.
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Consumer Protection Unit
U.S. to help remove debt burden for students defrauded by for-profit chain
Nearly 25 years after a nationwide chain of beauty and secretarial schools was closed for defrauding students, the Department of Education has agreed to help ...
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Community Education
Video: Hope Is a Lawyer by My Side
Our attorneys and paralegals spend months, sometimes years, working closely with individuals and families in crisis. We hear their stories and see their pain, but ...
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