The Legal Aid Society is calling on the Mayor to enact the full package of CityFHEPS housing reforms recently passed by the City Council.

The Legal Aid Society and Goodwin Procter LLP filed an amicus brief in support of the position that the prohibition on sex discrimination contained in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 precludes employer discrimination based on transgendered status and sexual orientation.

Newton is the recipient of this year's Stephanie E. Kupferman Juvenile Justice Award, which is bestowed by the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York.  

A new filing, made with a coalition of advocates, calls for substantial changes to federal monitorship overseeing NYPD's stop-and-frisk and trespass arrest practices, as reported by the Associated Press.

Rigodis Appling, a LAS attorney and member of the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid caucus, slams the NYPD for continuing its discriminatory policing policy towards minorities in today's Truthout.

Toys and donations were distributed to over 300 children of low-income New Yorkers.

Commissioner Shea incorrectly identified a Legal Aid client as a suspect in the NYPD's ongoing effort to draw a false equivalency between bail reform and crime, reports the New York Post.