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New York Governor, Lawmakers To Decide If Family Court Attorneys Will Get a Raise After 18 Years (The Imprint)
The Imprint, April 1, 2022
New York Governor, Lawmakers To Decide If Family Court Attorneys Will Get a Raise After 18 Years
Dawne Mitchell is Chair of the City Bar’s Council on Children
‘As long as assigned counsel for parents and children remain underpaid and overwhelmed by caseloads,’ Legal Aid Society attorney Dawne Mitchell wrote in an open letter to Gov. Hochul and legislative leaders last month, ‘the second-class status of the Family Courts, the attorneys who serve there, and the litigants who appear there, cannot be overcome.’
