Indigent Deaf Find Fierce Advocates in Husband-Wife Legal Team
Representing the indigent deaf poses a host of legal challenges for Bruce and Liz Gitlin, a husband-and-wife team who run a public interest law firm in Manhattan. The couple recently scored their biggest legal victory—a settlement with New York City that requires it to provide interpreters in the city's homeless shelters, to train shelter employees and to install safety features.
December 07, 2015 at 05:00 AM
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Representing the indigent deaf poses a host of legal challenges for Bruce and Liz Gitlin, a husband-and-wife team who run a public interest law firm in Manhattan.
Among them is making lawyers, judges and other officials understand that some deaf people can't just “write it down.”
“Just because you speak American Sign Language doesn't necessarily mean that you also read English,” Bruce Gitlin said.
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