Jane Greengold Stevens
Jane Greengold Stevens is the Director of the Special Litigation Unit and has worked in civil legal services representing indigent clients in civil matters since 1969. Since the mid-seventies she has specialized in class actions enforcing the rights of people with disabilities, public assistance recipients, people struggling through their first years in the work force, and others denied benefits due to them under federal and state law. She was at South Brooklyn Legal Services for 18 years, including roles as both Director of Litigation and then Deputy Project Director, leaving only when Congressional restrictions foreclosed Legal Services Corporation recipient offices from working on class actions. She then got an IOLA Social Justice Project grant through which she co-taught the Federal Litigation Clinic at Brooklyn Law School while maintaining her class action case load. She moved to NYLAG in 2001.