Lawyers assigned by judges to represent children and low-income litigants in New York state courts in matters such as child neglect and domestic violence are demanding their first pay raise in nearly two decades.
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However, in the last six months, there have been days when no lawyers were available to take on the work. The state legislature included the pay increase in their budget proposals and set aside $210 million to pay for the wage increase, said Jonathan Heppner, a spokesman for the New York State Senate Democratic Conference.
Attorney Joseph Nivin used to accept court-appointed cases as a lawyer on the Queens 18B panel from 2011 to 2017 but stopped due to the meager pay and the long hours, which left him no time to manage his private law practice or his personal life at a time when he and his now-spouse were planning a wedding.
“Now as a private attorney, one frustration that I have is that often attorneys on the Assigned Counsel panel are very difficult to get a hold of to engage in settlement discussions,” Nivin said. “And I know why. Because they don't really have the time to do that.”
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