Legal Hand Brownsville Center, part of a network of walk-in sites to assist low-income New Yorkers with civil legal needs, held an open house on Wednesday to welcome area residents.
Attending the open house, from left, are Adriene Holder, attorney-in-charge of the Legal Aid Society, civil practice; Helaine Barnett, chair of the Permanent Commission on Access to Justice in New York; Chief Judge Janet DiFiore; Legal Hand volunteer Shaniece Montalvo; Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks; Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, D- Brooklyn; and Ignacio Jaureguilorda, director of Poverty Justice Solutions and Legal Hand at the Center for Court Innovation.