Dora Galacatos ’96, adjunct professor of law and executive director of the Feerick Center for Social Justice, discusses the importance of civil justice work to an attorney’s practice and how law firms can design and implement successful pro bono programs.
For Fordham University School of Law’s Dora Galacatos, a legal clinic offering pro bono counsel is as close to “church” as she’ll get.
The adjunct professor and executive director of the Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham Law was recently honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Pro Bono and Access to Justice.
For nearly two decades, Galacatos has led the Feerick Center in its mission to provide legal help to low-income New Yorkers in need. Through the center, she helped establish programs in the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island that bring together law students, volunteer lawyers and unrepresented litigants in debt-collection cases. And she also co-administered the New York State Unified Court System’s Attorney Emeritus Program, which has connected senior lawyers with legal aid opportunities resulting in more than 100,000 hours of pro bono service.
Here, Galacatos speaks with Law360 Pulse about why civil justice work helps an attorney’s practice and how law firms can design and implement successful pro bono programs.
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