Lawyers Manual - Unified Court System

Contributors
Liberty Aldrich is the Director of Domestic Violence and Family Court
Programs at the Center for Court Innovation, which provides technical
assistance and training to court administrators and judges on domestic violence
issues in New York State and nationally.
Lori L. Cohen is a volunteer attorney at the Immigration Intervention Project
at the Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families,
the largest domestic violence service provider in New York State. Prior to
volunteering at Sanctuary for Families, Ms. Cohen taught Immigration Law
at the University of Michigan Law School and served as the Director for the
Office of Immigration Legal Services at the Archdiocese of Detroit.
Elizabeth Cronin is the Director of Legal Affairs for the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit. She is also an adjunct professor in the Criminal Justice and
Sociology Department at Pace University, where she teaches domestic violence
and child abuse, ethics and criminal justice. She was a Deputy Bureau Chief of
the Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Bureau at the Westchester District
Attorneys’ Office, from 1986 until she left for the Court of Appeals in 2000.
Mary Rothwell Davis, an attorney in New York City, is currently developing,
with the National Judicial Education Program of Legal Momentum, a web-based
distance-learning program for judges on Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse. She
also serves as appellate counsel to Sanctuary for Families’ Center for Battered
Women’s Legal Services. She was formerly the court attorney for the State’s
first Integrated Domestic Violence Court in Bronx County and served as law
clerk to Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye.
Julie A. Domonkos is a former Executive Director of My Sisters’ Place,
Westchester County’s domestic violence services and advocacy organization.
She was a co-founder of the Lawyers Committee Against Domestic Violence
and served as its co-chair for over ten years.
Lisa Fischel-Wolovick is currently in private practice in New York City with
an emphasis on matrimonial and family law. She is also an adjunct assistant
professor at Fordham Graduate School of Social Service.
Jill Laurie Goodman is Counsel to the New York State Judicial Committee
on Women in the Courts and co-chair of the Lawyers Committee Against
Domestic Violence.