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Homeless Kids with Special Needs Start the School Year
This fall, one in 10 students in the NYC school system overall - and one in 8 students below 5th grade - are homeless. Homelessness is difficult for all children, but for special needs kids, who require extra care, attention, and resources, the ordeal presents particular challenges. Read this article to learn how the Justice Center's Legal Clinic for the Homeless is working with homeless parents of special needs children to get them the help and support they need.
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New York’s Veterans Need More Free Legal Help
The Veterans Assistance Project has done groundbreaking advocacy to draw attention to the need for more free legal assistance on behalf of New York City's underserved disabled veterans. New York has the fifth largest veteran population in the country, but lags far behind other states in benefits received from the VA. Read the NYC Bar Association's report on the inadequate legal services for veterans here and the Justice Center's post on the topic here.
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Justice Center Projects Team Up to Preserve Homes and Protect Families
The Justice Center's Planning and Estates Law and Homeowner Stability Projects were featured in the NYC Bar Association's printed fall/summer newsletter for their work helping low-income households safeguard their assets and achieve economic and housing security.
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7 Days on the Border
Our Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow Rachel Searle spent a week on the border this summer providing legal assistance to asylum seekers through the entry process into the United States. Read about her insights and key takeaways from the experience here.
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Federal Pro Se Legal Assistance Project Reaches 1000th Client Served
The Federal Pro Se Project (FedPro) has worked extensively with the Eastern District of New York to help unrepresented litigants in the federal court system. Read Executive Director Lynn Kelly's co-authored piece in the NY Law Journal about the challenges facing pro se litigants here, and our post on FedPro's work here.
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Change the life of a low-income New Yorker.
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Join us on October 21st for the City Bar Justice Center's Annual Pro Bono Awards. This year, we honor eleven of our amazing pro bono volunteers from eight firms whose outstanding pro bono service has made an immeasurable impact on our clients' lives. We are also pleased to have Hon. John Gleeson as the ceremony's keynote speaker (retired Judge of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, current Partner at Debevoise & Plimpton). City Bar President Roger Maldonado (Smith, Gambrell & Russell) and City Bar Fund Board Chair David Levine (Bloomberg) will also be speaking. RSVP to probonoawards@nycbar.org by October 18.
This year, our honorees are:
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October 11: LCH Clinic with Capital One and Columbia Law | Regent Family Residence
October 11: PELP Legal Clinic | New York City Bar Association
October 15: CAP Veterans Wills Clinic with Winston & Strawn | Offices of Winston & Strawn
October 15: Civil Court Project | Brooklyn Civil Court
October 16: NELP Clinic with AXA XL | Upper Manhattan NYC Business Solutions Center
October 17: LCH Clinic with Capital One and Hunton & Williams | Children's Rescue Fund House East
October 21: City Bar Justice Center Pro Bono Awards | New York City Bar Association
October 22: CAP Life Planning Presentation with Memorial Sloan Kettering | Memorial Sloan Kettering
October 22: NELP Presentation | Brooklyn Public Library
October 23: NELP Clinic with CBS | Brooklyn Business Solutions Center
October 23: VAP Training | New York City Bar Association
October 24: CAP Life Planning Presentation with Mt. Sinai | Mt. Sinai
October 24: Civil Court Project | Manhattan Civil Court
October 29: CAP Medical Debt Presentation with Gilda's Club | Gilda's Club
October 29: Civil Court Project | Brooklyn Civil Court
October 29: NELP Clinic with AIG and DLA Piper | Offices of AIG
October 31: PELP Legal Clinic | New York City Bar Association
November 1: LCH Clinic with Capital One and Hunton & Williams | Children's Rescue Fund House East
November 4: VAP Legal Clinic and Training with JP Morgan and Sidley Austin | New York City Bar Association
November 6: LCH Clinic with Capital One | Jackson Ave. Family Residence
November 7: Civil Court Project | Manhattan Civil Court
November 7: NELP Clinic with Bloomberg | Brooklyn Library
November 8: VAP Breakfast | New York City Bar Association
November 11: VAP Legal Clinic | New York City Bar Association
November 12: Civil Court Project | Brooklyn Civil Court
November 14: LCH Clinic with Reed Smith and BNY Mellon | Icahn House Bronx
November 18: PELP Clinic | New York City Bar Association
November 19: Civil Court Project with Davis Polk and Citi | Brooklyn Civil Court
November 19: NELP Clinic with Davis Polk and Citi | Queens Economic Development Corporation/Entrepreneurs' Space
November 21: Civil Court Project | Manhattan Civil Court
November 22: LCH Clinic with Capital One and Columbia Law | Regent Family Residence
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Your support for the City Bar Justice Center funds a robust calendar of pro bono clinics and community outreach year round, as well as the personnel to recruit, train, and deploy more than 1,000 volunteer attorneys, leveraging $18 million worth of free legal services for low-income New Yorkers.
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Ariana Javidi is the CBJC newsletter editor, ajavidi@nycbar.org.
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