It was early June when Philip Katz, a Family Court practitioner who works via the court system’s assigned-counsel program for the indigent, got the call about a battered 18-year-old woman who needed emergency protection from her boyfriend.

The COVID-19 pandemic still had New York City in its grip. And Katz and dozens of his assigned-counsel colleagues, private attorneys who usually get paid $75 an hour for their Family Court lawyering, had been working extra hours since April to help their clients navigate a new pandemic-driven, virtual court process. Day after day, they’d been trying to win for the abused emergency court orders aimed at keeping their violent partners away.

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