We fought against Kavanaugh’s nomination, we sent a delegation of members to Texas to represent immigrants in detention, we won the softball league championships, we honored our 44 long-time members, we fought for justice for our clients and for our members, and more. See what we got up to in 2018 by watching our year […]

January 25, 2019 Yesterday the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee of Manhattan Legal Services, part of Legal Services NYC, presented Heroic Lawyering: a Report from the Border, a panel discussion at New York Law School featuring nine staff members who have represented families seeking asylum at the US’s Southern border following Trump’s escalated and […]

January 2019 Many of our union members have benefited from the $840/year reimbursement available through the UAW Education Fund for classes. Members have used this fund to take LSAT and bar exam classes, undergrad classes, language classes, and more. This fund is typically available only once a member is no longer on probation. However, because the LSNYC contract requires that social workers […]

December 14, 2018 After nearly nine months, the Bronx office has settled a grievance challenging the Bronx office’s overuse of combined lines, colloquially referred to as “split” or “slashed” titles, such as paralegal-slash-intake officer, or executive secretary-slash-intake officer. Although LSNYC CBA 14.3(E) states that “the combining of two lines will be done sparingly, and only […]