Come celebrate Mary Maguire’s retirement with us on Friday, November 9 at 6:00PM!
Fuller Road Fire Department, 1342 Central Ave, Albany, NY 12205
$30 ticket • Cash Bar
Make checks payable to LASNNY and mail to:
Retirement Party c/o Martha Butler
LASNNY 95 Central Avenue, Albany, NY 12206
Join us for a night of networking and discussions about pro bono opportunities available in the Capital District at the Friends of Pro Bono Night.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 5:30pm – 7:30pm at NYSBA, One Elk St., Albany, NY
Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served
RVSP to Melody Harkness at [email protected]
As you know, New York State annually joins the nation to mark October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. We hope you will continue to turn the state purple in creative ways and consider ways that you can turn awareness into action by becoming an ally for victims and survivors.
Allies are service providers, law enforcement professionals, friends and loved ones who lend support in myriad ways: they call the state’s Domestic and Sexual Violence Hotline for a friend in need; listen to without judgment to a loved one who isn’t sure what to do next; encourage their workplace to adopt a policy to improve protections for victims and survivors; donate to their local domestic violence service provider; and wear purple on Thursday, Oct. 18, to name a few.
For more information, check out our Domestic Violence Awareness Month Toolkit, which features graphics customized for Facebook, Instagram and Twitter; facts and figures for Tweets and posts; and an electronic banner for posting to websites or incorporating into an email signature, among other resources.
Whether you post photos, share our graphics or write about ways in which your community, organization or workplace is making a difference this October, be sure to tag @NYSOPDV and #NYGoesPurple4DV so we can find you online. We’ll be sharing and retweeting throughout the month and hope you will follow us and do the same.
You also can send your photos directly to [email protected]; be sure to include the names of any groups or individuals you’d like to see included when we post the photos to our 2018 Facebook album.
And finally, service providers and law enforcement professionals are invited to attend our first-ever Domestic Violence Risk Reduction Summit from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23 in Albany. The summit will feature presentations detailing how communities and organizations across New York State are identifying and responding to victims of domestic violence who are at high risk of being killed or seriously injured by an intimate partner. The event also will feature keynote remarks by Nicole Sharpe, an author, advocate, and founder of the Heather Hurley Foundation, named in memory of her mother. Seating is limited.
Register here by Monday, Oct. 15.
Thank you in advance for being an ally this October!
P.S. Don’t forget to mark your calendar for #PurpleThursday, Oct. 18 and wear purple that day.
Please welcome Roni Druks, our new Economic Justice Initiative Staff Attorney. Roni graduated from Harvard Law School in 2017 where she was involved in social justice advocacy through the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic and the Harvard Law School Domestic Violence and Family Law Clinic. After graduation, Roni served as a Henigson and Public Service Venture Fund Fellow at Yesh Din, a human rights organization addressing human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Roni is excited to join the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York and to support local communities fighting for economic justice.
Please Join Us, Campaign Co-chairs: E. Stewart Jones, Jr. and Thomas J. O’Connor, for the Justice For All Campaign 2018 Annual Kickoff Event on Thursday, September 20
Fort Orange Club, Albany, 5:30-7:30 pm
* Open Bar * Hors d’oeuvres * Live Music
Complimentary to members of 2017-18 JFA leadership firms and/or members of those JFA firms or individuals that pledge or donate on or before the event.
Campaign Leadership Firms calculate their gifts at a minimum of $225 per attorney.
The Justice for All Campaign, founded in 2004, is LASNNY’s Annual Fund.
RSVP to [email protected] or 518-689-6306
Sponsored by
For information, contact Deanne L. Grimaldi at 518-689-6336 or [email protected]
Alexis Kutski talks about the Medical-Legal Partnership between St. Peter’s Health Partners, LASNNY, and Albany Law School and the benefits it has for patients/clients.
Navigating the health system can be overwhelming and sometimes patients need legal help. That’s why St. Peter’s Health Partners has teamed with the Legal Aid Society.
Please welcome Chloe Lichtenstein our new Independent Consumer Advocacy Network ICAN Attorney. She will be assisting individuals who are enrolled in managed care. Chloe graduated from Cornell Law School in 2014, where she first became involved in public interest law through Cornell’s LGBT Advocacy Clinic. After graduation, Chloe served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joan B. Lobis of the New York State Supreme Court, New York County and as an Appellate Court Attorney at the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department. Chloe received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University at Albany in 2011 and is excited to be back in the Capital Region.
Seth Stone serves as the Human Resources Manager at LASNNY. Previously, he was the Director of Leadership development for Grace Fellowship and prior to that was the Senior Program Manager for Professional Development at Regent University in Virginia Beach. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor of business and management for the School of Business & Leadership at Regent University. His book, Next: Reinventing Your Future Through Innovation reached the top 200 leadership books sold on Amazon Kindle. He holds a doctorate in Strategic Leadership and an MBA from Regent University and a B.S. in Management and Business from Skidmore College and is a SHRM-CP.
Welcome to Steve Nguyen our new Consumer Law Attorney, who will be dealing with utility shutoffs and debt defense. Steve graduated from Boston College Law School in 2015 and worked as a Public Interest Fellow at The Legal Aid Society in NYC with its Special Litigation Unit. prior to this, he was in Legal Aid’s Civil Practice for almost two years as a housing attorney in Brooklyn. He is a recent transplant to the Capital Region with his wife and pets.
St. Peter’s Health Partners (SPHP) in New York’s Capital Region recognized how patients with serious medical conditions often encounter legal problems that present barriers to their recovery. For example, patients with advanced cancer may need legal assistance relating to benefits, housing, employment, wills, advance directives, custody and more. To address this growing need, SPHP last year joined with the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York and Albany Law School to form a Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP). The SPHP MLP offers free legal services to low-income patients with qualifying health-related legal problems. Drawing on the design and experience of MLPs elsewhere across the country, (see http://medical-legalpartnership.org/), the SPHP MLP established formal rules regarding eligible patients, eligible legal problems, and the referral and acceptance process.
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