Haub Regulation Opens Authorized Hand Name-In Heart Serving Westchester County

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Haub Regulation Adjunct Professor Elyse Diamond is Director of  the Public Curiosity Regulation Heart and Entry to Justice Mission. She is spearheading the Name-In Heart partnership and launch, and can function the school advisor for Haub Regulation college students collaborating in this system.

The Elisabeth Haub Faculty of Regulation at Tempo College has partnered with Authorized Hand, Inc., a New York State not-for-profit company, to launch the Authorized Hand Name-In Heart serving Westchester County. The digital middle is staffed and operated by Haub Regulation, and is scheduled to open for guests this month.

The Authorized Hand Name-In Heart can be an all-virtual useful resource middle for group members, with workplace area on the third flooring of Aloysia Corridor on the Regulation Faculty. Haub Regulation college students, together with school college students and group Volunteers, can be skilled to help those that stay, work and ship youngsters to high school in Westchester by telephone and on-line and supply authorized info, help and referrals. Whereas the Heart won’t present authorized recommendation or illustration, it’ll function a worthwhile useful resource for group members looking for steerage in areas similar to employment, housing, household, immigration, home violence and public advantages.

“Via our partnership with Authorized Hand, the Elisabeth Haub Faculty of Regulation will serve an vital position as a useful resource for the group, whereas offering our college students with a useful alternative to grasp and tackle entry to justice points,” stated Horace E. Anderson, Dean of the Elisabeth Haub Faculty of Regulation. “The Heart’s objectives are to empower each Volunteers and guests to grasp and navigate points and self-help assets, and to assist guests resolve points earlier than they flip into authorized motion.”

The Authorized Hand Name-In Heart serving Westchester County will operate as a part of the legislation college’s broader Entry to Justice Mission, which contains curricular, experiential, analysis, and coverage advocacy parts, all designed to extend pupil, college and employees engagement in professional bono and group work, and to assist the local people in addressing justice gaps. Haub Regulation has additionally partnered with the ninth Judicial District Courts Professional Bono Committee to coach Haub Regulation college students to help professional bono attorneys at a brand new digital actual time uncontested divorce clinic. And Haub Regulation has equally partnered with Authorized Companies of the Hudson Valley to coach college students to employees a brand new real-time digital housing clinic.

Elyse Diamond
Elyse Diamond

Regulation pupil Volunteers will have the ability to take part by dealing with shifts in the course of the Authorized Hand Name-In Heart hours as skilled Volunteers or via a guided externship for credit score, and members of the broader group can be skilled as Volunteers and requested to decide to serving a minimal of three hours per week for six months.

With the addition of the forthcoming Authorized Hand Name-In Heart, Haub Regulation just lately appointed Stephanie Costa, Esq. because the Authorized Hand Name-In Heart Lawyer. On this new position, she’s going to practice and supervise the legislation pupil and group Volunteers within the Authorized Hand Name-In Heart operated by Tempo as they help digital guests. Previous to becoming a member of Haub Regulation, Costa litigated circumstances on tenants’ rights and honest housing points on behalf of particular person New Yorkers and tenant associations at Authorized Companies-NYC. She acquired her JD at Fordham College Faculty of Regulation and undergraduate diploma on the College of Pennsylvania. 

Diego Gomez, a 2022 graduate of the legislation college, has additionally been employed because the Heart Supervisor and can help within the Heart’s coaching and administration. 

Haub Regulation is at present recruiting college students and different members of the group as Volunteers. Qualifying Volunteers will take part in an intense coaching program previous to the deliberate Jan. 30 launch of the Heart.





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