Experience

Essex Newark Legal Services

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Deputy Director

  • Aug 2015 - Present

  Newark, New Jersey I help to lead a legal services organization in Essex County, New Jersey dedicated to ensure equal justice for poor New Jerseyans.


Bergen County Community Mental Health Law Project
• Director

  • Jul 2014 - Aug 2015


Essex-Newark Legal Services

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Deputy Director

  • Feb 2008 - Jul 2014

  I assist the Executive Director in the day-to-day management of Essex-Newark Legal Services (ENLS), a private non-profit corporation, providing free legal assistance in civil matters to economically disadvantaged residents of Essex County, New Jersey. I have personally handled or supervised numerous appeals and trials before New Jersey’s Appellate Division and Law Division.

• Managing Attorney for the Housing & Income Maintenance Unit

  • Jan 2007 - Jul 2014

  I manage Essex-Newark Legal Services’ Housing & Income Maintenance Unit, in delivering high volume, aggressive legal assistance and representation to low income Essex County residents in all aspects of state and federal housing rights, emergency assistance programs to prevent homelessness, and public assistance benefits. I also conduct Legal Services of New Jersey’s statewide training to attorneys and paralegals on handling emergent matters before New Jersey’s courts and on federal laws and… Show more I manage Essex-Newark Legal Services’ Housing & Income Maintenance Unit, in delivering high volume, aggressive legal assistance and representation to low income Essex County residents in all aspects of state and federal housing rights, emergency assistance programs to prevent homelessness, and public assistance benefits. I also conduct Legal Services of New Jersey’s statewide training to attorneys and paralegals on handling emergent matters before New Jersey’s courts and on federal laws and regulations governing federally subsidized housing programs.