For Your Information…

In the Fall of 1997, Equal Justice America began sponsoring the Yale Law School TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association. The program puts Yale law students to work assisting battered women in obtaining Temporary Restraining Orders against their abusers.

Patricia Kaplan, the Director of the New Haven Legal Assistance Association says this about the Equal Justice America sponsored TRO Project. “It is one of the most successful student projects to come out of the law school and is a demonstration project for law schools and legal services’ programs throughout the country. It provides critical services to victims of domestic violence who come to the courthouse to file for orders of protection on their own. This project is now considered to be a permanent part of the law school programming.”

Equal Justice America Fellowships for Yale law students and graduates are made possible by contributions from Yale Law School alumni. With continued support from the alumni, we look forward to putting many more Yale law students and graduates to work providing vitally needed legal assistance to the poor. We need your help!

(Equal Justice America is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation unaffiliated with any law school.)

The following Yale Law Students have been recipients of Equal Justice America fellowships:

Fall 2008
  • Kaitlin Ainsworth, Jonathan Cochran, Ilana Gelfman and Caroline Gross are working on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association

Fall 2007
  • Alexander Berlin, Ilana Gelfman, Erin Phillips and Smita Singh worked on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Fall 2006

  • Alexander Berlin, Erin Bradrick, Hannah Jacobs, and Kristina Scurry worked on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Fall 2005/Spring 2006

  • Erin Bradrick, Raquiba Huq, Robin Preussel, and Samuel Wiseman worked on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Spring 2005

  • Amy Carroll, Class of 2004, began a two-year post-graduate EJA fellowship at MFY Legal Services in New York City.

Fall 2004 & Spring 2005

  • Gina Guariento, Abja Midha, Benjamin Novick, and Marc Silverman worked on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Spring 2004

  • Sheila Hayre, Class of 2002, began a two-year post-graduate EJA fellowship at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Fall 2003/Spring 2004

  • Tina Charoenpong, Abigail Greene, Nancy Liao, and Limor Robinson worked on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Fall 2002/Spring 2003

  • Nola Breglio, Annie Harland, and Sarah Renee Holland worked on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Fall 2001 & Spring 2002

  • Kimberly Brayton, Anjum Gupta, Stacey Kamya, and Erin O’Donohue worked on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Summer 2001

  • Avani Mehta worked at the National Center for Youth Law in San Francisco.

Fall 2000 & Spring 2001

  • Courtney Clark, Grace Lee, Sarah Sundell, and Suchon Tuly worked on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Fall 1999/Spring 2000

  • Arlety Campos, Shad Doellinger, Lisa Hafdi, and Jennifer Stuart worked on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Fall 1998/Spring 1999

  • Kathleen Keller, Melissa Frydman, and Gail Dave worked on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Summer 1998

  • Zoe Neuberger worked at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco.
  • Eve Stotland worked at the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco.

Fall 1997/Spring 1998

  • Suzanne Boyce, Zoe Neuberger, and Stephanie Stern worked on the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Spring 1997

  • Portia Wu, Satchen Pandya, and Michelle Riley worked at Farmworkers Legal Services in New Paltz, New York.

Fall 1996

  • Alison Bethel and Tina Forbush worked at the New Haven Legal Assistance Foundation.