Author Archives: Administrator
Posted on December 7, 2011 by Administrator
Lisa Pearlstein, Director of the Justice Center’s Legal Clinic for the Homeless project, met a new client named Karen and her six-year-old son at one of our clinics at a homeless shelter in September. Continue reading →
Posted on November 23, 2011 by Administrator
Lisa Peterson had been an Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and then served as in-house counsel to an adoption agency before leaving the practice of law for several years to raise her two sons.
Last year, ready to return to the law, she contacted the Public Service Network. Continue reading →
Posted on November 16, 2011 by Administrator
Last week, the City Bar Justice Center hosted the first legal clinic for potential eligible claimants under the reopened 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. Continue reading →
Posted on October 25, 2011 by Administrator
At a ceremony Monday, the City Bar Justice Center honored the winners of the third annual Jeremy G. Epstein Awards for Pro Bono Service. Continue reading →
Posted on October 12, 2011 by Administrator
Laura Mathews-Jolly has joined the City Bar Justice Center’s Immigrant Women & Children Project on a two-year Equal Justice Works fellowship, supported by the law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, to provide legal services to immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and are survivors of labor and sex trafficking.
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