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Domestic Violence Awareness Month | ReThinkAccess ReThinkSystems

The last 18 months have exacerbated many barriers that survivors face when attempting to access justice. Many of the survivors we have spoken to during ...
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Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Healthy Financial Relationships

More than 1 in 3 women (35.6%) and more than 1 in 4 men (28.5%) in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or ...
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Impact Litigation Cases

Williams v. Equitable Acceptance Corporation

Class Action Settlement with Financing Company that offered Sham “Student Debt Relief” to Federal Student Loan Borrowers
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COVID-19, A Year Later: “The Need Was Great.”

NYLAG staff reflect on loss, grief, and justice during COVID-19.
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Community Education

Opinion: Why Black Immigrants are Ignored in United States’ Immigration Conversations

NYLAG's Senior Staff Attorney Safiya N. Morgan explores the historical anti-Black agenda in the U.S. immigration system.
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Community Education

NYLAG’s Policy Agenda for the Biden Administration

With Joe Biden now the 47th President of the U.S., NYLAG urges the Biden Administration to reverse policies that harm the communities we serve.
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NYLAG’s Caprice Jenerson Speaks about the Intersectionality of Poverty, Racism, and Access to Justice

NYLAG's Caprice Jenerson was the keynote speaker for the annual 2020 Zagoren Lecture on March 8 where she addressed the root causes of poverty and ...
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Domestic Violence Law Unit

Don’t Just “Believe Survivors.” Understand Survival.

Trauma expert Evy Yeager writes about why legal professionals have to understand trauma and survival responses, as part of NYLAG's #IamCredible campaign.
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Community Education

NYLAG’s New Visual Identity. Why now?

Since 1990, The New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) has worked tirelessly to make the voices of individuals and families with low-income or experiencing poverty ...
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Community Education

NYLAG’s first Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer

Caprice Jenerson has become NYLAG's first-ever Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer.
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