|
Carolyn Kubitschek is one of the nation's leading civil
rights litigators on behalf of mothers, fathers, and children who are
caught up in the child welfare system. Since 1991, she has been a law
partner with David Lansner in the law firm of Lansner & Kubitschek,
which they founded as a private firm in the public interest, advocating
for the constitutional rights of parents and children, using an
interdisciplinary approach of attorneys, social workers, legal
assistants, law students, and experts.
Ms. Kubitschek teaches child welfare law as an adjunct professor at
Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, and serves as vice-president of
the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. She has written
numerous articles on the rights of children and families, child
welfare, and domestic violence. Among her many precedential cases, she
litigated the case of Nicholson v. Scoppetta, in which both a federal
court judge and the highest court of New York ruled that the government
cannot remove children from their mothers or prosecute mothers for
child abuse simply because the mothers are victims of domestic
violence.
|
