Manhattan Legal Services’ Tracey Bing Honored by NYC Bar

Manhattan Legal Services Family Law Unit Director Tracy Bing (above, second from left) was honored on June 13th with a New York City Bar Legal Services Award. The awards are given annually to recognize to attorneys and non-attorneys who provide outstanding civil legal assistance to New York’s poor. 

Pictured above from left, Carey Dunne, the bar group's
president and a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell; and honorees
Tracey Bing, Family Law/Domestic Violence Unit, Manhattan Legal
Services; Jane Sujen Bock, Homeless Rights Project, Legal Aid Society;
Nelson Gutierrez, Elderly Project, Volunteers of Legal Services; Leah
Margulies, Law Help/NY Project; Ivy Suriyopas, Anti-Trafficking
Initiative, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Zerline
Goodman, the wife of Michael Rothenberg, the former executive director
of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest who passed away earlier this year,
accepted a posthumous award for her husband.

Awards were presented by the Hon. Theodore Jones, Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. The awards are administered by the Special Committee on the Legal
Services Awards, chaired by William T. Russell, Jr., and sponsored by
the Committee on Pro Bono and Legal Services, chaired by Stacey O’Haire
Fahey.  The awards have been endowed by a generous contribution from the
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

Congratulations Tracy!

(Photo: Rick Kopstein, NYLJ)