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City Bar Justice Center Announces Pro Bono Legal Hotline COVID-19 Expansion
May 12, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has devastated New York City and disproportionately impacted low-income communities served by the City Bar Justice Center (CBJC). In response, the CBJC has launched the Legal Hotline COVID-19 Expansion, a pro bono initiative in response to the urgent legal needs of underserved New Yorkers.
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City Bar Justice Center Launches Pro Bono COVID-19 Small Business Remote Legal Clinic
April 10, 2020
New York, April 9, 2020 – The City Bar Justice Center has launched a pro bono, remote legal clinic to help small businesses understand and access options available under the federal government?s COVID-19 stimulus package and other opportunities available through federal, state and local programs.
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City Bar Justice Center to Honor Venable and MetLife with Pro Bono Awards – Event Moved to Sep. 24
April 1, 2020
New York, April 1, 2020 – The City Bar Justice Center’s 15th Annual Gala will honor the law firm Venable LLP and financial services company MetLife, Inc. with the 2020 City Bar Justice Awards for their leadership and dedication to pro bono and public service. Originally scheduled for April 1, 2020, the Gala will take place … Continue reading City Bar Justice Center to Honor Venable and MetLife with Pro Bono Awards – Event Moved to Sep. 24
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Free Life-Planning Legal Assistance to NYC Front-Line Health Care Workers to be Provided by City Bar Justice Center
March 30, 2020
New York, March 30, 2020 – The City Bar Justice Center’s Planning & Estates Law Project (PELP) will provide free, remote legal assistance to New York City front-line health care workers in preparing simple life-planning documents, including wills, powers of attorney, designations of standby guardians and health care proxies. PELP consists of a panel of … Continue reading Free Life-Planning Legal Assistance to NYC Front-Line Health Care Workers to be Provided by City Bar Justice Center
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Leading Human Trafficking Attorney to Become Deputy Director of the City Bar Justice Center
June 21, 2019
New York, June 20, 2019 – Suzanne Tomatore will assume the role of Deputy Director of the City Bar Justice Center beginning July 1, 2019, the organization announced today. Tomatore has worked at the Justice Center for nearly two decades, including as Director of the Immigrant Women and Children Project and the Cancer Advocacy Project. … Continue reading Leading Human Trafficking Attorney to Become Deputy Director of the City Bar Justice Center
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City Bar Justice Center Announces Honorees of 2018 Jeremy G. Epstein Awards for Pro Bono Service
October 18, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Eric Friedman Director of Communications efriedman@nycbar.org 212-382-6754 Michael Fil Communications and Development Coordinator mfil@nycbar.org 212-382-6727 City Bar Justice Center Announces Honorees of 2018 Jeremy G. Epstein Awards for Pro Bono Service New York, October 18, 2018 – The City Bar Justice Center, the pro bono affiliate of the New York City … Continue reading City Bar Justice Center Announces Honorees of 2018 Jeremy G. Epstein Awards for Pro Bono Service
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City Bar Justice Center Gala to Celebrate Pro Bono
April 10, 2018
On April 11, the City Bar Justice Center’s 13th Annual Gala will honor the global biopharmaceutical leader Pfizer Inc. and the international law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP with the 2018 City Bar Justice Awards, for their leadership and dedication to pro bono and public service.
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Kurt M. Denk Joins City Bar Justice Center as Pro Bono Counsel
March 13, 2018
Kurt M. Denk has joined the City Bar Justice Center as Pro Bono Counsel. Denk comes to CBJC from Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, where he practiced general civil and complex commercial litigation and maintained an active pro bono docket on behalf of diverse clients and causes.
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Innovative Online Portal Provides Help to Low-Income New Yorkers with Consumer Issues
January 25, 2018
Low-income consumers in New York City now have a dynamic new tool for obtaining legal help on a consumer issue. The NYC Consumer Help Finder is an online portal through which low-income New Yorkers can apply for legal help with a consumer problem and be assured a prompt call-back from an attorney or authorized case handler.
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City Bar Justice Center’s Planning and Estates Law Project Announces Collaboration with the Mount Sinai Medical Legal Partnership
November 29, 2017
The City Bar Justice Center’s Planning and Estates Law Project (PELP) has announced a collaborative project with the Mount Sinai Medical Legal Partnership to connect Mount Sinai’s neediest patients with PELP lawyers.
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Lucia Damerau Selected as Fragomen Fellow to Provide Pro Bono Immigration Support
October 12, 2021
We are proud to announce that Lucia Damerau is the newest Fragomen Fellow.
The Fragomen Fellowship is a fully-funded, two-year rotating fellowship established by Fragomen to enhance the pro bono legal services provided to immigrants by the City Bar Justice Center, the pro bono affiliate of the New York City Bar Association.
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It’s Time To Fix the Co-Op Problem
February 16, 2021
By K. Scott Kohanowski, the City Bar Justice Center’s Homeowner Stability and LGBT Advocacy Projects Director.
“It is time for New York to protect all owner-occupants of residential property and urgently close the loophole that denies at-risk co-op unit owners the protections accorded to similarly situated homeowners.”
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How Jim Crow-era Laws Still Tear Families from Their Homes
February 1, 2021
Scott Kohanowski, director of the Homeowner Stability Project with the City Bar Justice Center in New York City, has seen predatory investors and developers look for properties in gentrifying parts of the city to force partition sales.
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Council Member Treyger and City Bar Association Call on City to Speed Up Shelter Wifi Installation
January 28, 2021
“The scale of the problem is large: a May survey of homeless residents by the City Bar Justice Center, which has been studying technology access in shelters, found that only six percent of the homeless residents surveyed had internet access through their homeless shelter.”
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Sharp Drop in City Bankruptcies Could Foreshadow Big Jump Next Year
December 21, 2020
“‘There were relief measures put into place like the New York State eviction moratorium,’ says Ramona Morel, director of the consumer bankruptcy project at the City Bar Justice Center. ‘There were definitely protections and benefits in the CARES Act.’ Some of Kransdorf’s clients made more from the pandemic unemployment aid than they had in their jobs.”
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It Is Time to Address the VA’s Enormous Backlog of Claims for Disability Benefits
December 1, 2020
“Through our partnerships with the New York City Bar Justice Center’s Veterans Assistance Project, the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Veterans Legal Services Project, and the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School’s Veterans Legal Clinic, Proskauer attorneys have helped countless veterans obtain the benefits they deserve. Even with an experienced lawyer, delays are common and often devastating to indigent and disabled veterans who rely on the financial support for everyday necessities.”
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New Gambit in NYC Self-Storage Wars: Some Owners Willing to Cut Struggling Customers Free as Demand Booms
November 15, 2020
“If the auction is soon, go ‘masked up’ to the open Human Resources Administration center in your borough to apply for an emergency storage grant, said Lisa Pearlstein of the City Bar Justice Center.”
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Proskauer Virtual Volunteers Support LACBA’s Veterans Legal Service Project Clinic
November 11, 2020
“We also continue to build on our long-standing partnerships with the City Bar Justice Center’s Veterans Assistance Project in New York and the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School’s Veterans Legal Clinic in Boston to obtain disability benefits for veterans with service-connected disabilities and to petition for “discharge upgrades” to rectify the classifications that partially or entirely bar many veterans from the disability benefits they rightfully deserve.”
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Hundreds of storage units in New York heading to auction
October 27, 2020
“Lisa Pearlstein, director of the City Bar Justice Center’s Legal Clinic for the Homeless, asked the law firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, to see if there could be a moratorium on auctions. The law firm said a pause on auctions would require executive action from the governor or the state legislature to modify the law that governs storage.”
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