NYC Bar Association Announces Winners of the
16th Annual Legal Services Awards

New York – The Association of the Bar of the City of New York has named four legal services attorneys and one non-attorney as recipients of the Sixteenth Annual Legal Services Awards, which give recognition to attorneys and non-attorneys who provide outstanding civil legal assistance to New York's poor. The Awards will be presented on Monday, May 23rd, at 4 p.m. at the Association, to which the legal services community is invited.

This year’s recipients are:

Michael D. Hampden , Deputy Director, Legal Services for Children, Inc.

Diane LaGamma , Staff Attorney, HIV/AIDS Representation Project, The Legal Aid Society

Ellen Rosenberg , Supervising Attorney, Sanctuary for Families’ Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services

Victor Torres , Disability Advocacy Project, Unit Director, Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

Jeanette Zelhof , Deputy Director, MFY Legal Services, Inc.

This year’s Awards will be presented by Helaine Barnett, President of the Legal Services Corporation and a former Treasurer of the City Bar Association.

The awards are administered by the Special Committee on the Legal Services Awards, chaired by James H. R. Windels, and have been endowed by a generous contribution from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

About the Association
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (www.nycbar.org) was founded in 1870, and since then has been dedicated to maintaining the high ethical standards of the profession, promoting reform of the law, and providing service to the profession and the public.