Justine M. Luongo, known as Tina to all, has been appointed Deputy Attorney-in-Charge of the Criminal Practice of The Legal Aid Society. Tina began her Legal Aid career in September 2002 as a staff attorney in the New York County office of the Criminal Practice. In 2007, she was promoted to Supervising Attorney where she continued to directly represent clients, as well as manage the daily operation of her complex of attorneys, paralegals and investigators.
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The Legal Aid Society's 35th Annual Awards Dinner, held May 10, 2012, at the Waldorf Astorial, was the most successful in the organization's history. Barbara Lyne and Mel Immergut received the Society's 2012 Servant of Justice Award and Duncan L. Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext, received the Society's Theodore Roosevelt Award. Mr. Immergut is a Vice Chair of the Society and the Chairman of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Ms. Immergut is a member of the Society's Advisory Board.
A letter by Steven Banks, Attorney-in-Chief, and Kate Mogulescu, a staff attorney in the Manhattan Criminal Office, published in today's New York Times, calls for police and prosecutors to end the criminalization of victims of trafficking and urges them to do more to ensure that these unjust convictions do not occur in the first place.
The City Bar Association has recognized The Legal Aid Society's enhanced efforts to recruit and retain a diverse workforce by conferring the City Bar's "Diversity Champion" designation this year. Accepting the award, Steven Banks, the Society's Attorney-in-Chief, said that this designation distinguishes the joint efforts of the Society's management and staff from those at other legal services organizations and will thereby help the Society to continue to make progress in recruiting, hiring and retaining diverse law students.
Marlen Bodden, staff attorney in the Special Litigation Unit of The Legal Aid Society's Criminal Practice, will serve on a panel on Attorneys as Fiction Writers sponsored by the Committee on Career Advancement and Management of the New York City Bar Association on May 17. Marlen is the author of The Wedding Gift. Other members of the panel include Neil Abramson, Proskauer Rose; Cort Malone, Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C.; and Helen Wan, Associate General Counsel, Time Inc.
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