Stonewall 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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Summer Takeaways
A group of summer interns attend a brown bag lunch during their first week at NYLAG. In early August, NYLAG’s summer interns met for Happy Hour at the storied Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan to...
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Heather Betz to Head LGBTQ Law Project
Heather L. Betz has been named Supervising Attorney of NYLAG’s LGBTQ Law Project, which provides direct legal services to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community throughout...
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Serving While LGBTQ
Panelists, from left to right: Michael Wishnie; Kristen Rouse; Sasha Buchert; Sue Fulton; Shannon Price Minter. “What are some of the biggest challenges for LGBTQ service members and veterans right...
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