Testimony by City Bar President Debra Raskin at the Chief Judge’s Hearing on Civil Legal Service

SUMMARY

City Bar President Debra Raskin testified about the need to provide ‘the opportunities, training, and guidance’ to those engaged in pro bono work at Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman Hearing on Civil Legal Service.  The hearing focused on how the state’s civil court system can improve its representation of lower-income and indigent New Yorkers.