Elizabeth S. Saylor joined the firm in 2006.  She previously worked at The Legal Aid Society and clerked for the Hon. Robert D. Sack on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.  Ms. Saylor began as a Skadden fellow at Legal Aid, where she represented victims of domestic violence in public benefits, family, and housing cases.  After her fellowship, Ms. Saylor continued this work at Legal Aid and brought a class action § 1983 lawsuit that challenges the city and state’s systematic denial of public benefits to eligible immigrants. In August 2006, the Court granted class certification and ordered the city to stop illegally denying public benefits to eligible immigrants and to overhaul the error-plagued computer programs and training manuals that lead welfare workers to illegally deny them these subsistence benefits. M.K.B. v. Eggleston, 445 F.Supp.2d 400 (S.D.N.Y. 2006).

During law school, Ms. Saylor was a criminal law teaching assistant for Prof. Daniel Meltzer and a research assistant for Prof. Lani Gunier.  Ms. Saylor spent her law school summers at NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (now called Legal Momentum), Debevoise & Plimpton, and Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.

Harvard Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 2001; Sears Prize (awarded to two second-year students with highest GPAs); Massachusetts Bar Association and Kaufman Public Interest Fellowships; Harvard Women’s Law Journal, Editor; Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Intake Director

Amherst College, B.A., summa cum laude, 1997; Phi Beta Kappa

U.S.  District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; New York

Association of the Bar of the City of New York; ABCNY Domestic Violence Committee (2005-present); ABCNY Civil Rights Committee (2002-2005)

Federalism and the Family After Morrison: An Examination of the Child Support Recovery Act, Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, and a Federal Law Outlawing Gun Possession by Domestic Violence Abusers, 57 Harv. Women’s L.J. (2002).