NYC Bar Association Announces Winners
of the
16th Annual Legal Services Awards
New York – The Association of the Bar
of the City of New York has named four legal
services attorneys and one non-attorney as recipients
of the Sixteenth Annual Legal Services Awards,
which give recognition to attorneys and non-attorneys
who provide outstanding civil legal assistance
to New York's poor. The Awards will be presented
on Monday, May 23rd, at
4 p.m. at the Association,
to which the legal services community is invited.
This year’s recipients are:
Michael D. Hampden , Deputy
Director, Legal Services for Children, Inc.
Diane LaGamma , Staff
Attorney, HIV/AIDS Representation Project, The
Legal Aid Society
Ellen Rosenberg , Supervising
Attorney, Sanctuary for Families’ Center
for Battered Women’s Legal Services
Victor Torres , Disability
Advocacy Project, Unit Director, Brooklyn Legal
Services Corporation A
Jeanette Zelhof , Deputy
Director, MFY Legal Services, Inc.
This year’s Awards will be
presented by Helaine Barnett, President of the Legal Services
Corporation and a former Treasurer of the City
Bar Association.
The awards are administered by
the Special Committee on the Legal Services Awards,
chaired by James H. R. Windels, and have been
endowed by a generous contribution from the Horace
W. Goldsmith Foundation.
About the Association
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (www.nycbar.org) was founded
in 1870, and since then has been dedicated to maintaining the high ethical
standards of the profession, promoting reform of the law, and providing service
to the profession and the public.
