One frustrating reality that I learned pretty quickly when I started doing legal aid work is that I can often get a call returned more easily than my clients can. CLASI is not always a first resort when a legal issue arises for our clients. Many of our clients end up becoming our clients, not because they have not or…
CCJ agencies provide immigration relief for victims of domestic abuse and violent crime to protect and assist them as they try to create better opportunities for themselves and their children. Recently, CLASI Supervising Attorney Marissa Band had the honor of presenting a permanent resident card (commonly known as a “green card”) to her long-time client, who is a survivor of…
I have been passionate about social justice from a young age. I took some law classes in college, and decided that the best way to make my interest in social justice into a career was to go to law school to become a public interest lawyer. I became a legal aid advocate so I can be a part of making…
Meet CLASI volunteer attorney, Sheila Hochhauser! I worked for Legal Aid and the Legal Services Corporation of North Carolina when I was a law student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. I have just always felt that corporations and wealthy individuals would be able to find and easily pay for quality legal representation. I believed my mission…
Meet CLASI supervising attorney, Olga Beskrone! I have worked as a Legal Aid advocate for my entire career, starting while I was still in law school at Rutgers University. I worked for Camden Regional Legal Services as a 3rd year law student helping senior citizens. After law school, I didn’t want to do any other kind of work. In 1985,…
Meet CLASI Managing Attorney, Jayce Lesniewski! I am the Managing Attorney for the Kent and Sussex County offices and I am the Poverty Program Attorney in Sussex County. I represent survivors of domestic violence, primarily in helping them obtain Protection from Abuse Orders in Family Court, and I represent tenants in Federally subsidized housing, primarily in defending against eviction actions….