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- January 24, 2012

Kate Rubin, Director of Policy & Community Development, and David Miranda, Attorney in the Civil Action Practice, spoke about helping clients understand and navigate civil legal barriers.

- October 29, 2011

On October 29,  McGregor Smyth, Managing Attorney of our Civil Action Practice, spoke about the civil consequences of conviction at the 2011 Symposium "Sentencing Law: Rhetoric & Reality"

- September 28, 2011

Robin Steinberg will speak on a panel at the Innovations in Criminal Justice Summit in Chicago on Wednesday, September 28, 2011.

- September 27, 2011

On September 27, McGregor Smyth, Managing Attorney of our Civil Action Practice, trained more than 200 public defenders at the South Carolina Public Defender Association Annual Conference.

- August 10, 2011

Robin Steinberg spoke at Increasing Public Confidence: A Roundtable on Community Justice held at the Center for Court Innovation's office in NYC on August 10, 2011.

- August 2, 2011

Robin Steinberg spoke on a panel at The National Criminal Justice Association’s 2011 National Forum in Jersey City, NJ, on Tuesday, August 2.

- July 22, 2011

Robin Steinberg and McGregor Smyth spoke at the 2011 Community-Oriented Defender Conference on July 22 at NYU's Brennan Center for Justice.

- July 20, 2011

Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC hosted a luncheon CLE event that focused on the ethical issues confronting attorneys transitioning from private to public practice.

- July 11, 2011

Article published in the Howard Law Journal by McGregor Smyth, Managing Attorney of the Civil Action Practice and Director of Reentry Net, examines the practical effect of Padilla for criminal defense attorneys currently working with clients on pending cases.

- June 20, 2011

Robin Steinberg, McGregor Smyth, and Jennifer Friedman presented at the "Padilla and the Future of the Defense Function" conference at the Jacob Burns Ethics Center in the Practice of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on June 20-21, 2011.

- June 13, 2011

Robin spoke at 2011 Conference on Clinical Legal Education that took placae in Seattle, WA on June 13-17, 2011.

- May 2, 2011

Robin Steinberg spoke at WNYC's Greene Space on a panel discussing Stop and Frisk. This panel, a part of The NEXT New York Conversation, discussed both sides of the controversial police strategy and how this procedure affects New Yorkers.
 

- April 8, 2011

Robin Steinberg, our Executive Director, spoke to the Colorado Public Defenders and Defense Bar at The University of Denver.

- April 2, 2011

Kumar Rao, staff attorney, spoke at the New York State Defenders Association program "Criminal Defense Tactics and Techniques XIII at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

- March 23, 2011

Jenay Nurse, a Criminal Defense Attorney, spoke at the New School event "Youth in Harm's Way: Marijuana, Law Enforcement and Young New Yorkers" on Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
 

- February 28, 2011

Robin Steinberg spoke at Middlebury College's spring symposium “Communities and Justice: Inequality and Innovation in America’s Justice System”.

- February 24, 2011

McGregor Smyth, Managing Attorney of Civil Action Practice & Reentry Net Director, spoke at "The Aftermath of Padilla v. Kentucky: A New Era For Plea Bargaining and Sentencing?" conference at Saint Louis University School of Law.
 

- February 2, 2011

Robin Steinberg spoke at the Community Lawyering Symposium at the Seton Hall Law Center for Social Justice Scholars.

- February 1, 2011

Robin Steinberg spoke on the panel “Criminal Justice: Is the system failing us?” at the 6th Annual Harry F. Guggenheim Conference on Crime in America.

- January 31, 2011

Robin Steinberg spoke at NYU’s Leaders in Public Interest Series, “Is Social Justice Best Promoted by Being a Prosecutor or Public Defenders”.

- January 26, 2011

Robin Steinberg attended the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Workshop on The Role of Courts in Re-Entry in Washington, D.C.

- January 23, 2011

Robin Steinberg spoke at the International Perspectives on Indigent Defense, a workshop jointly sponsored by the Department of Justice’s Access to Justice Initiative (ATJ) and the National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) International Center.

- May 20, 2010

McGregor Smyth, Managing Attorney of the Civil Action Practice, is the winner of the Kutak-Dodds Prize!

- March 27, 2010

Shoshana Brown, Bronx Defenders' Client Advocate, was a speaker at The Prisoner Justice Conference.

- March 19, 2010

Robin Steinberg and Ariane Eigler spoke at the 29th annual Edward V. Sparer Symposium.

- March 16, 2010

Robin Steinberg spoke to the Criminal Law Committee of the Bar of the City of New York.

- February 18, 2010

Robin Steinberg was featured on a panel at the 2010 Indigent Defense Symposium.

- February 2, 2010

The University of Texas invited Robin Steinberg to speak at the Lives in the Law Speaker Series.

- November 1, 2009

Robin Steinberg to spoke at the Sunny Climate Annual Conference in Hawaii.

- October 1, 2009

Robin Steinberg traveled this fall to Israel, where she spoke at the Annual Public Defender Conference.

- September 22, 2009

Ann Mathews was the keynote speaker at a roundtable forum for Michigan Campaign for Justice.

- September 11, 2009

Robin Steinberg traveled to Eastern Europe with the Justice Initiatives Program at OS.