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CEO Cathy Cramer Testifies at a New York State Joint Public Hearing on Family Court
Our CEO, Cathy Cramer, was grateful to offer testimony at the November 1, 2023 New York State Senate hearing on issues faced by families in the New York Family Court system.
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Family Legal Care Receives Ponce De Leon Foundation Grant
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Family Legal Care will be closed from December 23, 2023, re-opening January 2, 2024.
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Family Legal Care Testifies at State Joint Hearing on Family Court
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Family Legal Care Mentioned in New York Daily News Article
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How ChatGPT can help abuse survivors represent themselves in court
Without lawyers’ help, Family Court can be extremely difficult to navigate, explains Cathy Cramer, CEO of New York-based Family Legal Care, which aims to make this court more accessible to self-representing litigants. “There’s a lot of legalese—terminology people don’t understand. There’s a lot of procedure they don’t understand,” she says. “It’s not uniform procedure across the courts, [and] people are very overwhelmed and confused.”
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"Report from the Special Advisor on Equal Justice in the New York State Courts"
Secretary Jeh Johnson's report found that the “under-resourced, over-burdened New York State court system” has a “dehumanizing effect" on litigants, and a "disparate impact on people of color.” There is, in effect, “a second-class system of justice for people of color in New York State.”
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