COVID-19: What’s Changed?
We are here for you during this time with information on Housing, Public Assistance, Unemployment Benefits, Consumer Debt, Orders of Protection, Family Court, Taxes, and Social Security. Read More …
News
Meeting the Challenges, a Letter from Director Lillian M. Moy
We understand that this can be a confusing and challenging time for many as we all navigate our way through this pandemic. So we want you to know that the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York is still here … Read More …
LASNNY Coronavirus Information
Per the request of the Governor of the State of New York, the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York is closing our physical doors effective 9am Monday, March 23, 2020. Legal Aid’s phone lines in every office will be open to … Read More …
Congratulations to our 2019 PAI Distinguished Service Award Winners
LASNNY awarded the 2019 PAI Distinguished Service at the annual Holiday party on December 5, 2019 at Wolfert’s Roost Country Club. Fiona Farrell, Esq. has been a mainstay of the Glens Falls Attorney for the Day program, helping seventeen clients … Read More …
Renewal House honors Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York during annual dinner
Renewal House held its annual dinner recently at the Gran View Restaurant honoring Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York for its role in providing free civil legal services to victims in St. Lawrence County and for Creating Hope … Read More …
This nurse worked more than 30 years at the same hospital. Then the pension plan went bust.
Imagine that you’ve worked decades for the same company, choosing not to take another job for higher pay because your employer offers an increasingly rare benefit — a pension plan. Juanita Aikens-English, 64, doesn’t have to imagine. She started … Read More …
LASNNY Receives Funding from the Community Foundation to Help Children with Special Needs
The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York (LASNNY) was honored to be awarded the Community Foundation of the Greater Capital Region Impact Grant in support of our Children’s Law Project. The Children’s Law Project (CLP) provides legal advice … Read More …
Landlords from Schenectady, elsewhere in state, fret over strengthened tenants rights
Evictions are disruptive, Romaker said, and can create a ripple effect with ramifications throughout society, especially when children are involved. (Robert Romaker, Managing attorney, LASNNY) “It has a devastating impact on families,” he said. He welcomed the strengthened safeguards … Read More …
‘Why Is There Nothing Left?’ Pension Funds Failing At Catholic Hospitals
For 24 years, Karen Bradley worked as a nurse at St. Clare’s Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y. The pay wasn’t great, she says, but it was a good hospital, the place where her father once worked as a pharmacist. Bradley … Read More …
LASNNY Celebrates the 15th Anniversary of the Annual Justice For All Campaign
Over 100 people gathered at the Fort Orange Club in Albany to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York’s (LASNNY) Annual Justice For All campaign. The anniversary was marked by the installation of a … Read More …