Judith Waksberg
Judith Waksberg
is the Director of the Appeals Unit of The Legal Aid Society's Juvenile Rights
Practice. She has been with the Juvenile
Rights Practice for twenty-two years, as a staff appellate attorney and also as
the head of the Special Litigation Unit.
She has extensive appellate experience in both the child protective and
the delinquency areas and has conducted training in these areas for JRP staff
and for other attorneys. In 2006, she
instituted a Writs and Stays program in the Appeals Unit which was the 2009
recipient of the Juvenile Rights Society’s SOuL
Award. She has also spearheaded a
special pro bono project for juvenile appeals and provided training and
supervision for those pro bono attorneys.
She has briefed and argued a number of cases in New York State’s highest
Court of Appeals, including representation of the class of children of domestic
violence victims in the appeal of Nicholson
v. Scoppetta, 3 N.Y.3d 357, 820 N.E.2d 840
(2004). She is a 1982 graduate of
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