AN UNEMPLOYMENT PRO BONO OPPORTUNITY

« MARKOWITZ MOURNS KEN SIEGELMAN \| Main \| HEALTH CARE REFORM: DO WE NEED IT BAD? » AN UNEMPLOYMENT PRO BONO OPPORTUNITY Claimants Denied Unemployment Benefits: A Pro Bono Opportunity for Hard Times Fordham Law School 140 West 62nd Street New York, NY 10023 McNally Amphitheater Monday, June 22, 2009 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Unemployment Insurance Benefits are more important than ever for New Yorkers who have lost their jobs in this time of severe economic distress. Please join us for a colloquium for the legal community to discuss how we can increase pro bono representation by attorneys for claimants denied these essential benefits at the hearing and agency appeal levels. The keynote speaker will be Leonard D. Polletta, Chair of the NY State Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board. Invited participants include law firm pro bono coordinators, legal services and legal aid programs, other entities with unemployment practices, law schools and bar associations. Purpose: This Colloquium brings together members of the legal community with an interest in Unemployment Insurance Benefits cases to address how better to organize around this issue; how to increase pro bono representation for claimants denied benefits, and what is currently being done to address increased representation in UIB cases. Opening Remarks - Chairman Leonard D. Polletta, Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board PANEL #1: An Overview of Unemployment Insurance Law How the system works The need for Pro Bono attorneys in Unemployment Insurance Cases Common grounds for denial Administrative hearings and appeals before the Board PANELISTS Lynn Kelly, Executive Director, City Bar Justice Center - Moderator Andrew Stettner, National Employment Law Project Goethy Guareno, Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board

Panel #2: What is the current state of Pro Bono representation in Unemployment Insurance Benefits Cases?
Assessing whether pro bono representation, as it stands, is sufficient to address the current UIB crisis? Barriers to Pro Bono involvement Models of Pro Bono involvement Law student involvement in unemployment insurance benefits cases How can we best use the resources that we currently have? PANELISTS Bill Dean, Volunteers of Legal Services - Moderator Jennifer Brown, Pro Bono Counsel, Morrison and Foerster Carol Neiditch, Legal Services of the Hudson Valley Julia Rosner, Legal Services of New York Manhattan Robyn Weinstein, Outgoing Regional Co-Chair of Unemployment Action Center/Incoming Director of Volunteers of Legal Services Unemployment Project. For further information concerning this colloquium or to RSVP, please contact Jessi Tamayo, Associate Director, Fordham Law School's Louis Stein Center for Law & Ethics at (212) 636-6988 or jtamayo@law.fordham.edu. Planning Committee: Fordham Law School Cooper Family Chair on Urban Legal Issues, City Bar Justice Center, Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, Legal Services NYC, Manhattan Legal Services, MFY Legal Services, Inc., National Employment Law Project, NYS Office of Court Administration, The Legal Aid Society, Pro Bono Net, Law Help, The Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, UAC, Volunteers of Legal Services, Workers Defense League Posted by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq. on June 19, 2009 10:00 PM \| Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.nyrealestatelawblog.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/7134 Post a comment (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? 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