We help enforce laws that protect site safety and other working conditions for our clients, including the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act and the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Act. Our vigilance in visiting work shelters near fields and speaking directly to workers in their first language helps ensure minimum standards for the work environment. Our outreach and training teams monitor conditions, train staff, listen to concerns, and identify legal issues for our lawyers. They also make recommendations as needed and follow up with repeated visits as needed. For 16 years, Ariella served as Managing Attorney of BayLegal`s largest office (Alameda County), leading a team of 45 lawyers, support staff, and social workers to provide high-quality legal services to low-income County residents in the areas of domestic violence, family law, housing, economic justice, access to health, juvenile justice, disability rights, immigration and reintegration. The Community Justice Unit provides a range of basic legal services to New Yorkers in our city. Over the past year, we`ve handled more than 1,940 cases through our work with Cure Violence partners, including helping individuals get their rap sheets and seal their criminal records, providing legal advice, helping New Yorkers resolve housing issues, and operating a 24/7 legal emergency hotline. In addition, CJU staff and lawyers hosted 132 different community events in the five counties, including Know Your Rights events, rallies, and educational clinics. As a regional lawyer in BayLegal`s consumer rights practice, Noah oversees the strategic vision and priorities of BayLegal`s regional consumer practice, assists lawyers and advocates in each of BayLegal`s regional district offices, and leverages expertise and resources to support local and systemic advocacy. Noah ensures that BayLegal`s regional consumer protection goals and strategies align with the emerging and urgent needs of the community, supports the professional development and expertise of BayLegal`s consumer advocates by providing strategic support and mentorship to lawyers in each of BayLegal`s regional offices, coordinating regional advocacy, implementing training, and identifying opportunities to increase leadership. As a regional lawyer, Noah monitors regional trends and issues facing our client communities and helps collaboratively identify, support and advise systemic impact and litigation to bring about systemic change for our clients. As a regional lawyer, Noah works closely with regional, national and national partners and consumer advocates to ensure BayLegal implements best practices and remains a leader in consumer law advice for our clients. As Director of Programs and Advocacy, Ariella coordinates and develops strategies with our Managing Counsel, Regional Counsel and General Counsel to enhance our impact and leverage our unique expertise serving vulnerable and low-income communities.

In this role, Ariella is responsible for integrating BayLegal`s programs across our seven-county firm, our various practice areas and our multi-faceted approaches (direct legal, impact advocacy, and community work). As Director of Development and Communications, Taylor oversees the giving and culture of the annual campaign for individuals, corporate donors, our Board of Directors and the Private Bar. The campaign is a major source of unrestricted financial support for our work, providing flexibility and stability, and allowing us to respond quickly to emerging client, community and organizational needs. Taylor also manages our company-wide communications, providing strategic direction, content development and editorial oversight of our website, e-newsletters, customer and community outreach materials and social media accounts. He acts as BayLegal`s interlocutor and strategist, working with lawyers to bring regional and national media attention to our work as a case advocacy tool and, increasingly, as a means of publicly recognizing the history and current practice of civil legal aid as a key component of long-term struggles against economic inequality. Eviction, racial injustice and oppression related to gender and sexuality. As the head of a communications and development assistant and a member of the executive team, Taylor combines the operational leadership of the communications and development department with company-wide strategic planning. Ms. Alfonso joined Bay Area Legal Aid in early 2008 as Managing Counsel of our Legal Advisory Line.

In that role, she ran Northern California`s only civil legal helpline – an advanced phone system that serves seven counties and more than 24,000 callers annually in more than 40 languages. In 2013, she founded BayLegal`s Health Consumer Center, which serves all consumers facing barriers to healthcare. A: Anyone in Washington DC who is homeless or at risk of homelessness needs legal assistance. Prior to joining BayLegal, Ms. Alfonso had a distinguished career as a lawyer at Gordon & Rees as a member of the Commercial Transactions team. She was recruited by the San Francisco Bar Association`s Volunteer Legal Services Program (VLSP) to develop a national model of pro bono projects in business law. At VLSP, she designed, implemented and led one of the first commercial law projects in the country to meet the ever-growing complex legal needs of not-for-profit organizations. Join this webinar to learn more about: the types of legal services survivors of human trafficking need; How can we determine when civil or criminal clients may be victims of human trafficking? effective models of collaboration with law enforcement while maintaining a victim-centred approach; and the possibility of working with the Civil Rights Division to combat human trafficking. There are currently 30 CMS/CV locations in New York, and counting. Each of these resume websites represents a safe space/place in the neighborhood where community members can meet.

receive training on a variety of topics, including mediation, conflict resolution, legal training, such as knowing your rights when interacting with police, gang police and family law; engage in civic engagement by preparing community members to speak at local government meetings; and take advantage of extensive services such as after-school programs, tutoring and literacy classes, employment readiness programs including resume creation, job fairs, interview workshops and OSHA training, financial empowerment, mental health, and legal advocacy. If you need help with a legal issue or case, please do not come to our office. For general questions, please call our intake line at 323-939-0506 or email intake@bettzedek.wpcdn-b.com. Linnea Forsythe is the Managing Attorneys of Bay Area Legal Aid`s Alameda County Regional Office.