The Only Constant is Change
August 19, 2010
The only constant is change. This hit me again as I was working through our latest personnel changes at Empire Justice: Read More

Highlights from Empire Justice Summer Survey
August 19, 2010
This summer Empire Justice surveyed advocates familiar with its work to provide feedback on the services it provides. A full report on the survey findings will be available on Empire Justice Website. Here are some highlights. Read More

New Posting for Kristin Brown Lilley
August 19, 2010
After almost ten years with Greater Upstate Law Project (GULP) and Empire Justice Center, Director of Legislative Advocacy, Kristin Brown Lilley has left Empire Justice Center to work as Senior New York Policy Manager for American Farmland Trust in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she lives with her husband and young son. Read More

Focus on Leadership
“Good to Great and the Social Sectors”
August 14, 2009
A small monograph by Jim Collins, author of Built to Last and Good to Great, seminal works about why and how some companies not only make it through hard times, but actually make the leap to become even better, recently caught my attention. Read More

Embrace Justice
Invest in Legal Services
December 1, 2008
It is in these times - at this very moment - that we should be expanding our investment in civil legal services and ensuring greater access to justice. Read More

President’s Corner
February 1, 2007
It’s exciting, exhausting, challenging and at times frightening as we work to move the state into a new day in the delivery of civil legal services. Read More

Policy Matters
December 1, 2006
“Policy matters,” Jim Tallon, President of the Untied Hospital Fund (UHF) declared as he opened a recent UHF conference on health care financing and delivery in New York State. “And,” he said, “policy is back.” Read More

Shadows: The Dark Side of Strength
August 1, 2006
So many of us have been so overwhelmed lately. We’ve taken on so much; we’re not sure where to draw lines; we’re desperately trying to deliver so many services to so many constituencies. We need to figure out how to re-group; how to breathe. Read More

Reflections & Renewal
August 1, 2006
We are – and here we hope to stay – ten years after the Gingrich Revolution brought the end of Federal funding for support services, the restrictions on local services and the massive devolution of our country’s most basic safety net and with it, the most fundamental changes in our country’s approach to immigrants we have ever seen in our lifetimes. Our services were cut and curtailed just as our client communities needed us most. Read More