In her 44 years with the Legal Aid Society, Pat Bath was both the public-facing mouthpiece for New York City’s largest public defender organization and a central point of contact for its wide array of constituencies at times when its livelihood—or its very existence—were under threat.

In 2004, Steven Banks began his decade-long tenure as attorney-in-chief for the organization at what he considers its darkest era—after years of financial mismanagement, Legal Aid was left with an eight-figure deficit and was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

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