Legal Services NYC Announces Appointment of Jennifer Ching to Lead Queens Legal Services

January 28, 2010– Legal Services NYC is pleased to announce that Jennifer Ching has been appointed Project Director at Queens Legal Services (“QLS,” a program of Legal Services NYC). 
“We are enormously pleased to welcome Jennifer to Legal Services
NYC’s leadership as Project Director of Queens Legal Services,” said
Legal Services NYC Executive Director and President Andrew Scherer.
“Jennifer brings to the position talent, energy, a deep commitment to
the communities of Queens, and broad experience in public interest
advocacy. The need for legal help for New York City’s low income
households and communities has been rapidly expanding due to the poor
state of the economy, and Jennifer is just the right person to lead our
talented Queens staff in the provision of critical civil legal services
in this challenging time.”

"Our Board looked hard and worked hard to get just the right
person to lead our program. We are all convinced that Jennifer is that
person. Her energy and articulated commitment to measuring the success
of the program by the level of service provided to our clients is
refreshing and warmly welcomed," said Sandy Lane, QLS Board Chair.

“I am honored to join QLS and have been humbled by the
incredible commitment and passion of the QLS staff to fight for justice
on behalf of our clients every day,” said Ching. “As the new Project
Director, I look forward to building the diversity, quality and reach
of our programs and look forward to building new partnerships in
Queens.”

Jennifer comes to QLS fresh from her position as Director of
the New York office of Appleseed, a national network of public interest
justice centers with a mission to leverage private sector resources to
engage long term structural reform through programs expanding access to
justice, education and economic opportunity. Prior to joining
Appleseed, she was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison LLP in New York, where her pro bono work included litigation
and advocacy on behalf of Guantánamo detainees.

Jennifer has also been a John J. Gibbons Fellow in Public
Interest and Constitutional Law, litigating death penalty, immigrants'
rights and civil rights cases, and a Skadden Fellow at the ACLU of New
Jersey where she founded the Immigrant Workers' Rights Project. She
received her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her
undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

Jennifer succeeds Carl O. Callender as Project Director of Queens Legal Services.

Legal Services NYC provides free help on cases involving
housing, family, domestic violence, public benefits, income tax,
employment, education, consumer rights and economic development. Learn
more at www.legalservicesnyc.org.

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