Bloomberg Law
Aug. 16, 2019, 8:50 AM UTC

Haynes and Boone Helps Tenant Lawyers in N.Y. Anti-Eviction Fight

Elizabeth Olson
Elizabeth Olson
Special Correspondent

Haynes and Boone is pitching in to help train legal-aid lawyers to meet New York City’s first-in-the-nation guarantee of free legal counsel to low-income residents facing eviction.

Senior counsel David Fleischer has teamed with David Ratner, a tenant lawyer with 30 years of experience at Hartman, Ule, Rose & Ratner, to guide more than two dozen attorneys at CAMBA, a Brooklyn-based legal aid provider.

“Our goal is to provide lawyers with complete confidence in trying such cases. We are trying to give them a road map for what they can expect at trial,” Fleischer said.

Legal aid organizations are mobilizing ...

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