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Longtime Legal Services NYC Board member Matthew Diller will become the sixth dean of the
Benjamin A. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University on August 1st.
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The first half of the issue reproduces much of the discussion held at a conference at Touro Law Center in March 2008. Andrew Scherer, Executive Director of Legal Services NYC, Dean Lawrence Raful of Touro Law Center, and the outgoing and incoming presidents of the New York State Bar Association deliver introductory addresses that call attendees of the conference to action.
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Brooklyn Branch Project Director
Steven Bernstein appeared on Rennie Bishop’s “All Things New York” on WWRL
(1600AM) on Saturday, March 21st. Steve’s interview focused on Legal Services
NYC’s work in Brooklyn and tips for homeowners
and tenants.
On February 24th Legal Services NYC, the largest provider of free civil legal services to the poor in the nation, released New Yorkers in Crisis. The report provides the most extensive data available in one place on the mounting challenges facing low-income New Yorkers across all five boroughs. The report describes the vast unmet legal needs of the city’s 3.1 million residents with incomes below 200% of the federal poverty line (FPL), or $34,300 for a family of three.
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