Clik here to view.
LGBT Law Project at NYLAG: First of Its Kind
This past September, with generous funding from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and the Chuck Goldman Family Supporting Foundation, NYLAG launched the LGBT Law Project, headed by Virginia Goggin....
View ArticleTrue Stories: Changing Lives by Creating New Beginnings
Although the Caribbean has been heralded as one of the most beautiful destinations on earth, in recent times it has also gained a reputation for its pervasive homophobic tendencies. Jamaica, one of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LGBT Law Project Secures Justice and Safety for DV Victim
NYLAG launched its LGBT Project last fall to ensure that low-income members of the LGBT community have access to justice on myriad legal matters that contribute to the client’s state of poverty....
View ArticleClik here to view.
NYLAG Honored by New York City Council Members
September 30, 2009, Council Member Erik Martin Dilan (Brooklyn, 37) proclaimed before the city council that September 30th should be “New York Legal Assistance Group Appreciation Day,” and urged “all...
View ArticleNYLAG Receives Grant from the Leon Levy Foundation
We gratefully acknowledge the Leon Levy Foundation for its recent grant to NYLAG. The foundation’s generous support helps us to provide free legal services to immigrants, seniors, the homebound,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LegalHealth Opens Two New Clinics in New York City Hospital
More New Yorkers are benefiting from the services of NYLAG’s LegalHealth division, thanks to recent expansions. Over the last 10 months, LegalHealth opened new clinics at Manhattan’s Harlem Hospital...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Longtime Volunteer Honored for Helping Expand LGBT Law Project
Clara Ricciardi, a volunteer attorney at NYLAG since 2009, was honored at the UJA-Federation of New York’s recent Volunteer Recognition Ceremony for her hard work and dedication to NYLAG’s LGBT Law...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Virginia Goggin Honored with AVP Courage Award
On September 22, the New York City Anti Violence Project (AVP) honored Virginia Goggin, Coordinator of NYLAG’s LGBT Law Project, at its 15th Annual Courage Awards. Established in 1997, the awards honor...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Over 100 NYLAG Staffers and Supporters Participate in NYC Pride March
More than 100 NYLAG staff members, interns and friends marched alongside the agency’s Mobile Legal Help Center in the New York City Pride March on June 24, 2012. It was NYLAG’s first year participating...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NYLAG Launches Transgender Employment Rights Program
Pictured above: Ez Cukor, Harvard Law School Irving R. Kaufman Fellow, who will implement the new Transgender Employment Law Project at NYLAG. The New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) has launched a...
View ArticleNYLAG Joins National Coalition Calling on Supreme Court to Strike Down the...
The New York Legal Assistance Group has joined a national coalition of bar associations, civil rights groups and legal service organizations as co-signatories in an amicus brief supporting Edith...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Victory for LGBT parents: NYLAG Changes Second Parent Adoption Policy in...
The Siri-Princz family after they completed their second parent adoption. In a victory for same-sex couples, the Queens Family Court has changed a long standing policy that required both parents to...
View ArticleStonewall Community Foundation Grant funds LGBT Life Planning Clinic
The New York Legal Assistance Group’s LGBT Law Project and the LGBT Bar Association Foundation of Greater New York (LeGaL Foundation) have been awarded a $9,000 grant from the Stonewall Community...
View ArticleProposed Mitchell-Lama Rule Changes Would Harm Low-income New Yorkers
On November 6, 2013, NYLAG testified before the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (DHPD), commenting on proposed changes to the Mitchell-Lama program rules. The Mitchell-Lama...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NYLAG Names New Supervising Attorney for LGBT Law Project
The New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) is pleased to announce that Anya Mukarji-Connolly has joined the organization as Supervising Attorney of NYLAG’s LGBT Law Project. The LGBT Law Project...
View ArticleNYLAG’s LGBT Law Project Celebrates LGBTQ Health Month
LGBTQ people are far more likely than their non-LGBTQ peers to live in poverty. As a result, they are more likely to lack access to health insurance and adequate healthcare. This disparity is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NYLAG’s New Class of Fellows Arrives
With fall comes the arrival at NYLAG of 19 young lawyers intent on closing the justice gap by implementing innovative and collaborative law projects that they themselves designed. They join NYLAG...
View ArticleName Change Ruling a Win for New York Immigrants
In October, the New York State Appellate Term, First Department, overturned a Civil Court judge and granted an undocumented transgender woman’s name change request. This is the first appellate decision...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NYC ID Good News for All New Yorkers
All New Yorkers can now sign up for id NYC. In July, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law an identification system that will make it possible for all New Yorkers to gain access to municipal services,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring Celebration at Orrick
L to R: Supervising Attorney of the LGBTQ Law Project Anya Mukarji-Connolly, Advisory Board members Christopher Riano, Deborah Berkman, David O’Connell and Erik Graham-Smith NYLAG’s LGBTQ Law Project...
View Article
