Holly Beck

Holly Beck

January 06, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania Should Act Now to Clear Away the Stigma of Eviction Records

We were the first state to automatically seal criminal records, allowing more than a million Pennsylvanians a fresh start and access to good jobs. We must do the same for eviction records by creating automatic eviction record sealing in Pennsylvania.

By Holly Beck and Caitlin Nagel

6 minute read

June 22, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Attorney Participation in Family Court Hearings in Absence of Clients

Chris Gottlieb, co-director of the NYU School of Law Family Defense Clinic, and Holly Beck, staff attorney with The Bronx Defenders, write that when a court conducts a hearing in the absence of a defending party, an attorney who appears for that party may face a dilemma: whether to participate in the hearing, and thereby waive the client's right to move based on excusable non-appearance to vacate a finding and re-open the hearing, or not participate and thereby forgo the opportunity to challenge the petitioner's case.

By Chris Gottlieb and Holly Beck

13 minute read