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2018 Annual Report
About Us
Legal Services NYC was founded in 1968 as part of the War on Poverty. What started as
a loose confederation of neighborhood-based legal services programs has grown into
the nation’s largest civil legal services provider. Our citywide force of over 500 staff helps
more than 110,000 low-income New Yorkers annually.
For low-income New Yorkers facing a life crisis, legal With deep roots in communities in all five boroughs,
help is often the most effective tool in resolving it. The Legal Services NYC has handled more than two million
need for free legal services is tremendous. Roughly cases since our founding. We are proud of what we have
1.7 million city residents are currently living below accomplished and look forward to continuing to expand
the poverty line—a mere $25,000 for a family of four. the scope of our work for the next 50 years and beyond.
They are often made more vulnerable by discrimination, With the generous support of our partners, there is no
immigration status, age, or disabilities. Our work makes end to what we can achieve. Thank you for standing with
tangible improvements in the lives of hundreds of us to demand justice.
thousands of these New Yorkers in need.
50 Years of Impact
1980: Dopico v. Goldschmidt— 1988: New York City Coalition
1970: Goldberg v. Kelly— 1977: Duchesne v. Sugarman— forced New York City to provide to End Lead Poisoning v. Koch—
SCOTUS articulated due process held a parent’s interest in custody of accessible public transportation to led to new lead paint laws and
standards for termination of child is a constitutionally protected people with disabilities, including monumental reduction in lead
government benefits liberty interest kneeling buses we see today poisoning in New York City
1970: Escalera v. NYCHA— 1979: Jose P. v. Mills— 1983: created Disability Advocacy
held that NYCHA must have good forced NYC Department of Education Project, which continues to help thousands
cause to terminate tenancy of a to provide appropriate and timely of children and adults with disabilities get
public housing tenant evaluations, placements, and services federal disability assistance
for all students with disabilities
Who We Serve
NEW YORKERS HELPED ACROSS ALL 5 BOROUGHS 66% OF OUR CLIENTS ARE WOMEN
Bronx
32,670 | 30%
Manhattan Men: 33%
20,698 | 19%
Queens Women: 66%
22,389 | 20%
Brooklyn
28,644 | 26%
Staten Island Did Not Identify: 1%
6,306 | 6%
In 2018, 538 staff helped more than 110,000 low-income New Yorkers
Over 2,000 volunteers at 100 law firms and companies donated more than
70,000 pro bono hours, helping 5,200 New Yorkers
1989: created one of the 1991: Gonzalez v. Dowling— 1992: aided in passage of 1998: founded one of the first
first HIV/AIDS Law Projects instituted strict compliance require- New York State’s standby foreclosure prevention projects
in the country ments and monitoring for New York guardianship law, which allows in the country, now the largest
State to ensure timely provision of parents with AIDS to legally plan for
Medicaid benefits future care of their children
Our Work
Through offices in all five boroughs, Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) fights for the rights of the low-income
members of our communities. We coordinate our services across practice areas to address legal problems
faced by historically poor and persecuted populations including immigrants, veterans, people of color,
LGBTQ individuals, people living with HIV/AIDS, and people with disabilities. Our multifaceted work includes:
Securing Access to
“My family was not safe. I was not safe. Thank Education & Health Care
you so much for Legal Services NYC. I was so
happy because I know we’re all safe. God bless Our work to protect students’ rights includes stopping
Legal Services!” inappropriate school discipline and ensuring the
accommodation of students with special needs. LSNYC
—Lamine Doukoure helps uninsured New Yorkers access public health benefits
IMMIGRANT WHO RECEIVED
and safeguards patients’ housing, finances, and health
ASYLUM AND WAS
REUNITED WITH HIS
care coverage.
FAMILY IN THE U.S.
3,400
NEW YORKERS HELPED
1999: Salaman v. Turner— 2008: created a citywide 2011: Barkley v. United Homes—
required NYC Human Resources immigration practice that has found that United Homes conspired with
Administration to create fair hearing grown into one of LSNYC’s largest mortgage bankers, attorneys, and real
process for those accessing practice areas, serving over 14,000 estate professionals to target minorities
HIV/AIDS benefits immigrant New Yorkers annually for fraudulent sales of overpriced homes,
leading to $1 million verdict
Financials1
REVENUE2 EXPENSES2
Fundraising/Communications
Legal Services Corporation &
$709,233
Other Federal Contracts............................. $14,877,041 Management/General
$77,664,257
Legal/Program Services
DONATED PRO BONO SERVICES*..............$43,629,823 $64,969,978
1
Unaudited 2018 estimates as of January 2019
2
Excludes donated pro bono services
* As of March 2019
Institutional Donors
$100,000 AND ABOVE Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver $10,000—$14,999 $5,000—$9,999
Bernard F. & Alva B. Gimbel Foundation & Jacobson LLP Barclays Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Center for New York City Neighborhoods Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP BNY Mellon AlixPartners, LLP
H. van Ameringen Foundation Herman Goldman Foundation Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
The New York Community Trust Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP GFP Real Estate, LLC Cooley LLP
Robin Hood Pfizer Inc Goldman, Sachs & Co. Cornerstone Research
Richmond County Savings Foundation Greenberg Traurig, LLP DLA Piper LLP (US)
$50,000—$99,999
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Harman Family Foundation Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP JPMorgan Chase & Co. Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
WilmerHale Katten Muchin Rosenman GlaxoSmithKline
Jenner & Block LLP
Keesal, Young & Logan King & Spalding LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP $15,000—$24,999
The Morrison & Foerster Lowey Dannenberg, P.C.
Milbank LLP Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.
Foundation Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Navigant Consulting, Inc. Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
& Garrison LLP Goodwin Procter LLP
Popular Community Bank Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP Ryley Carlock & Applewhite
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Latham & Watkins LLP
Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland Satterlee Stephens LLP
& Flom LLP Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
& Perretti LLP Sidley Austin LLP
Staten Island Foundation O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP Venable LLP
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz The Sassafras Foundation, Inc.
Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP Wild Geese Foundation
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
$25,000—$49,999 Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Arnold & Porter
USI Insurance Services LLC
Compass Lexecon
2014: Saint-Jean v. Emigrant— 2015: established the Tenant Rights 2015: T.H. v. Walcott— challenged NYC
jury finds that Emigrant Savings Bank Coalition, a collaboration among tenant Department of Education’s discriminatory use
discriminated against eight minority home- organizing groups that proactively fights of emergency medical services to respond to
owners by purposefully marketing subprime displacement and builds tenant power in children having behavioral issues; led to new
mortgages with predatory interest rates NYC neighborhoods facing gentrification protocols by NYC Department of Education to
avoid unnecessary emergency room visits
Individual Donors
THE JUSTICE CIRCLE
The Justice Circle is LSNYC’s society for leadership givers.
$25,000 and above Marshall R. King Donna Daniels Linton Mann III and Sara L. Shudofsky
Kamila and Munib Islam Susan J. Kohlmann Peggy J. Farber Alex Manlapaz-Mann Ellen L. Sporn
Michal and Daniel Katcher Rachel Quitkin Fern J. Finkel Marshall L. Miller William H. Taft V
Debra L. Raskin and Valerie Rubsamen and Melissa Garza Joseph P. Moodhe Jeffrey S. Trachtman
Michael D. Young Cedomir Crnkovic Diane and Joseph Genova Sharon M. and Irving H. Picard Liza May Velazquez and
Holly and William T. Russell Alan M. Getz Phyllis S. and David C. Oxman Timothy Milford
$10,000–$25,000 Olinda and John Simon Ben A. Indek Fern Schair and Anne C. Vladeck
Herbert Allen Eamon P. Joyce Alexander W. Forger Michael J. Volkovitsch
Michelle J. Anderson $2,500–$10,000 Jonathan Kaplan Daniel Slifkin
Ronan P. Harty Susan S. and Benjamin H. Baxt Gary S. Lee David E. Schwartz
Steven L. Holley Martha Campbell Andrew J. Levander Karen Patton Seymour and
Lisa and John S. Kiernan Mark G. Cunha Samuel W. Seymour
BENEFACTORS
$1,000–$2,499 Anita K. Dinerstein James L. Kainen Elizabeth Moore Paul H. Schoeman
Lynn F. Angelson Robin and Steven M. Edwards Laura and Henry J. Kennedy Celeste Morris Charles Simon
Elizabeth G. Atkins Meghan Faux Tanya Kuoni Diane M. Nardi Steven J. Slutzky
Marcelle Brandes John D. Feerick John J. Lavelle Karen Nelson and Elmer D. Sprague
Sindhu Boddu Audrey and Andrew Feiner Kathleen and Richard B. Levin Daniel L. Greenberg Daniel J. Soltman
Matthew D. Brinckerhoff Nadia Gareeb Pamela A. Liapakis Rosemary F. Palladino Anya Stiglitz
John Briody Rachel Geballe Susan B. Lindenauer David Parker Edward G. Timlin
Martin A. Cammer John C. Gray Roger Juan Maldonado Mary Pender Greene David L. Wagner
Vincent T. Chang Lynn Harman and Phil Coltoff Sheila T. McGinn and Matthew P. Porcelli Noreen R. Weiss and
Stuart H. Coleman Benjamin A. Holtzman Jeffrey Johnston Laurah J. Samuels Derek J. T. Adler
Helen and William J. Covington Jacqueline Jones-Peace and Madeleine P. MacNeil Robert Scheef Andrea Zigman
Peter Devine Breon S. Peace Jennifer Freeman Mintz Raun J. Rasmussen
DEFENDERS
$500–$999 Lisa A. Brabant Rita Celebrezze D’Souza Deborah G. Howard Fraidy Nachman
Randall T. Adams Michael Briggs Katrina Edge Sharaf Islam Eve Lynn Newman
Marc B. Adelman Susan J. Bryant Reid B. Fitzgerald Julie K. Karen Fabio A. Paniagua
Kelechi Anyanwu Elizabeth I. Buechner Julian W. Friedman Shazia Khawaja Brian E. Pastuszenski
Anne Aufhauser Brendan Carroll Thomas Gardner Betsy Krebs Kris Peterson
Paris R. Baldacci Lynne Chernow and Michael J. Garvey Jay L. Kriegel Nancy and James Quinn
Fredericka P. Bashir Jacob Inwald Anouck Giovanola Sophia Lnu Deborah Rand
Mark Bierman David L. Cohen Christina L. Golden Daniel Matza-Brown Amanda Ravich
Robert J. Bishop Elaine F. and Stephen G. Crane Diane S. Greenberg Terrence Morris Aima Raza
Harvey E. Blitz Jean Deitz Judith Helzner and Candace Moss Diana E. Reiter
Melissa E. Bonaldes Caroline C. Dreyspool Robert Bernstein J. Emmett Murphy Kathleen A. Roberts
2016: orchestrated a massive pro 2017: Padilla Torres v. City of 2017: joined other legal service providers
bono immigration campaign that has New York— challenged NYPD’s to challenge ICE’s policy of arresting
helped thousands of low-income immigrants refusal to provide language services for immigrants in New York State Courts
on matters ranging from naturalizations to survivors of domestic violence, leading to ensure access to justice for our clients
U visas and asylum to improved language access practices
(DEFENDERS CONTINUED)
“The men and women at Legal Services NYC
Christopher S. Rooney Mona C. Schnitzler and Naomi B. Sunshine
Richard T. Ross Jonathan Hurwitz Winnie F. Taylor
serve our city’s most vulnerable citizens.
Stephanie L. Rowan Karen Schwartz Scott Taylor Given recent changes at the federal level, it’s
Samuel J. Rubin Vivien Shelanski Robert W. Viets more important than ever to make sure that
Leonard Rubin Alaina Simon Jacqueline and
access to justice is provided for those citizens
Nutan and Anil K. Sahai Tor E. Smeland Charles S. Warren
Diana Sanabria Danielle A. Sorken Ellen Wayne at the local level.”
Sandy R. Santana Peter Spano Carl N. Wedoff —L inton Mann III
Eric Santiago Betty E. Staton Michael L. Williams SIMPSON THACHER,
Shrilaxmi Satyanarayana Jane R. Stern Stacy E. Yeung
& BARTLETT LLP
John F. Savarese Serena M. Stonick Mary M. Zulack
2018: began holding regular 2018: Martinez v. Lexington Gardens 2018: opened new Tenant Rights Coalition
pro bono name-change clinics Associate— required landlord to provide office in Brooklyn, in addition to existing Bronx
to help transgender clients legally change a reasonable accommodation to a tenant with and Manhattan offices, to continue helping tenants
their names a disability, setting precedent in accessing fight evictions, address bad housing conditions, and
accommodations for hundreds of other tenants combat tenant displacement
Who We Are
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Susan J. Kohlmann Naomi Batts Steven L. Holley Rosemary F. Paladino
Jenner & Block LLP Deedra Cheetham Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Leonard Rogers
CHAIR Victoria L. Horowitz
Katrina Edge Fern Schair*
William T. Russell, Jr. Pfizer Inc. Ben A. Indek Feerick Center for Social Justice
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Fitzroy Christian David E. Schwartz
VICE CHAIR
Mark G. Cunha* Abdiel Joseph Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
Donna Daniels & Flom LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP John S. Kiernan*
EY
Fern J. Finkel Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Sara L. Shudofsky
TREASURER
Finkel & Fernandez, LLP Marshall R. King Arnold & Porter
Liza May Velazquez
Joseph S. Genova* Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Daniel Slifkin
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
Milbank LLP (retired) Charlene Lipford Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
& Garrison LLP
Walkiria Gonzalez Ana Melendez Jeffrey S. Trachtman
SECRETARY
Creative Lifestyles, Inc. Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Marshall L. Miller
Ronan P. Harty Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Michael D. Young
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP JAMS
*EMERITUS Rasheedah Omar
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