Reentering the Legal Field Through the Public Service Network

by CBJC StaffNovember 23, 2011

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.

Justice Center Hosts Clinic for Claimants under Reopened 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund

by CBJC StaffNovember 16, 2011

Last week, the City Bar Justice Center hosted the first legal clinic for potential eligible claimants under the reopened 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.

Justice Center Honors Winners of Third Annual Jeremy G. Epstein Awards for Pro Bono Service

by CBJC StaffOctober 25, 2011

At a ceremony Monday, the City Bar Justice Center honored the winners of the third annual Jeremy G. Epstein Awards for Pro Bono Service.

Laura Matthews-Jolly Joins City Bar Justice Center to Help Sex and Labor Trafficking Survivors

by CBJC StaffOctober 12, 2011

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.

Barbara Camacho Joins Justice Center on New Two-Year Fellowship

by CBJC StaffSeptember 7, 2011

Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, the world’s leading provider of immigration services, has announced the appointment of Barbara Camacho as the firm’s latest “Fragomen Fellow” effective August 29, 2011.