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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
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International & Domestic Community & Economic Development
Experience
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Ashoka Foundation
Ashoka Foundation/Friends of Integration Association “Barrier-Free Poland” Campaign
Assisted the Friends of Integration Association, a prominent Polish non-governmental organization that is focused on promoting the social integration of people with disabilities with drafting leaflets and a “law in practice” guide that instructs individuals on how to initiate administrative proceedings to remove obstacles that prevent disabled individuals from having access to urban infrastructure.
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Council for Senior Centers & Services of New York City, Inc.
Council for Senior Centers and Services assessment
Participated in the second annual “Legal Assessment and Training Day,” coordinated by Lawyers Alliance for New York, to assist the Council for Senior Centers & Services of New York City, Inc. with a variety of legal issues affecting not-for-profit senior centers, including corporate governance, contracts, employment and real estate law.
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Oxfam
Hunger Banquet
Involved in creating programs to educate the public about Oxfam, including the development of a 50-minute workplace version of the Oxfam Hunger Banquet to teach participants about global hunger.
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Countries Seeking Trade Liberalization
Trade Liberalization of countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific
Prepared a memo addressing how the degree and pace of trade liberalization in Africa, the Caribbean, and Pacific countries would affect the countries’ ability to meet minimum requirements of trade agreements with the European Union.
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Habitat for Humanity
Governance and Infrastructure Matters
Representing the Budapest chapter of Habitat for Humanity, a not-for-profit that operates worldwide raising funds and resources to build homes for the poor and those who have lost their homes due to natural disasters, in connection with a public prosecutor’s action against it regarding the legal operation of two entities in Hungary.
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InfoDev
E-Government for Developing Countries
Involved in a pioneering e-government pro bono project for InfoDev, a group of non-governmental organizations led by Internews and the Center for Democracy and Technology.
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Legal Aid Shelter Allowance Litigation
Legal Aid Shelter Allowance Litigation
WGM in conjunction with The Legal Aid Society worked to obtain a preliminary injunction preventing the evictions of families who are unable to afford their rent due to the inadequacy of the current shelter allowances under New York State’s Safety Net Assistance (SNA) program. Plaintiffs argued that New York Social Services Law Section 350, which the New York Court of Appeals held to require the State to provide adequate shelter allowances for families with children under the state’s FA program, extends to families with minor children receiving allowances under the state’s SNA program. Justice Moskowitz concluded that Section 350 was enacted so that all families with minor children, whether on FA or SNA, receive adequate allowance.
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Mediation Advisory Services
Restructuring of Mediation Advisory Services
Advised Mediation Advisory Services on a number of insolvency, property, corporate and employment issues that were crucial to its immediate survival and, subsequently, to its orderly restructuring.
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Megan Z.
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest/Megan Z.
Represented a 15-year- old who suffers from spastic quadriplegia and cerebral palsy, in connection with her Medicaid request for a motorized wheelchair.
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National Wildlife Federation and the Wyoming Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation Ranch Dispute
Represented, as amici curiae, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), a private not-for-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of natural resources, and the Wyoming Wildlife Federation (WWF), which works to protect and enhance wildlife habitat, to protect citizens’ rights to use public lands and waters and to promote ethical hunting and fishing.
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Oxfam
Post-Katrina Gulf Recovery
Assisted Oxfam with research, advice and drafting assistance to Oxfam in its efforts to ensure that low- and moderate-income households, renters and minorities were not excluded disproportionately from the federal Katrina Recovery Homeowner Grant Program and that the State of Mississippi’s action plan fulfilled the basic tenets of the Fair Housing Act.
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Oxfam
Law Firm Consortium
Helping Oxfam coordinate a Law Firm Consortium to develop and implement innovative strategies for Oxfam.
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The Legal Aid Society
Guide to Small Businesses
Assisted The Legal Aid Society in preparing a presentation to train pro bono attorneys from New York City’s major law firms who provide legal assistance to the Legal Aid’s small business clients.
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Western Shoshone Defense Project
Legal Protections for Cultural Resources
Prepared analysis of legal protections available for cultural resources for Oxfam partner the Western Shoshone Defense Project.
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