Jonathan Fox Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

• Direct a large and growing unit of eviction-defense attorneys implementing New York City’s Right to Counsel law to provide legal representation to all low-income tenants being evicted in Housing Court. • Supervise a management team of 12 supervising attorneys and oversee a unit of over 90 attorneys and paralegals. Expanded unit from a staff of about 25 in January 2017 to 92 presently.• Developed and refined, with input from staff at all levels, an intricate and standardized structured interviewing process to recruit numerous supervisors, staff attorneys, and paralegals. • Oversee and create trainings for staff attorneys and paralegals. • Manage the operation and compliance of four separate contracts with a combined budget of over $11 million. • Discuss legal strategy in complex cases on a regular basis with supervising attorneys and staff attorneys, especially appellate matters, cases that are in Supreme Court and cases that involve claims or defenses related anti-discrimination laws. • Guide, mentor, and discipline attorneys and paralegals in need of support and oversee the unit’s new hire review and annual review process.

Greater New York City Area

New York, Ny

• Supervised five Staff Attorneys, one PipS Fellow, and two Paralegals who handle eviction cases in Brooklyn, eviction cases citywide referred by the Mobile Legal Help Center, and administrative proceedings before NYCHA, HPD, and DHCR. • Reviewed and revised pleadings, correspondence, motion papers, bills of particulars and discovery, stipulations, and make decisions on litigation and settlement strategies. • Prepared Staff Attorneys and paralegals for court and administrative appearances and appear with them as necessary for particularly challenging appearances. • Developed and enhanced referral networks with Goodwill, Success Academy, and council member Mathieu Eugene’s office to obtain better numbers under TRU’s HPLP grant. • Spearheaded TRU’s 2017 summer intern recruitment • Guide and mentor Staff Attorneys and Supervising Attorneys in need of support. • Co-facilitated with each Brooklyn TRU attorney a multipart Know Your Rights as a Rent Stabilized Tenant series for community members at Legal Hand in Crown Heights. • Continued to handle select SRU cases and provide guidance to SRU on FEMA’s Privacy Act compliance issues in the course of the Sandy Claims Review process and reversing improper municipal substantial damage determinations.

New York, Ny

• Supervised nine Staff Attorneys who handle Storm-related consumer law cases. Review and revise pleadings, correspondence, motion papers, discovery requests, and make decisions on litigation strategies. Prepare Staff Attorneys for court and administrative appearances.• Supervised two Financial Counselors that provide services to Sandy-affected individuals and families facing Storm-related financial difficulties.• Represented and supervised the representation of Superstorm Sandy victims in consumer-related civil court and administrative proceedings, including defending mechanic's lien foreclosures, defending consumers from breach of contract cases, defending consumers from replevin actions brought by utility companies, and representing homeowners in administrative and civil proceedings against home improvement contractors.• Advised clients on disaster-related consumer law issues, including mechanic's liens, contractor fraud, consumer debt, and taxes.

Greater New York City Area

• Represented Superstorm Sandy victims in consumer-related civil court and administrative proceedings.• Advised and represent clients on disaster-related issues, including mechanics' liens, contractor fraud, consumer debt, and taxes.

New York, Ny

• Represented low-income New Yorkers in consumer law matters, including debt collection lawsuits, identity theft cases, bankruptcies, foreclosure proceedings, and issues pertaining to taxes, federal and private student loans, credit reporting, and mortgage modifications.• Successes included: saving the homes of three families in foreclosure by dramatically reducing their mortgage payments through HAMP modifications; vacating numerous default judgments in debt collection cases in which service was improper; preparing filings for 18 pro se bankruptcies, thereby enabling low-income individuals to cumulatively discharge more than $400,000 of unsecured debt and retain essential exempt assets; and securing innocent spouse tax relief for two domestic violence survivors.• Represented numerous Spanish-speaking clients in an array of legal matters. • Performed technical assistance work with dozens of nonprofit organizations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Columbus, Ohio to enable them to build their capacity to implement financial development strategies with their low-income clients. This work entailed working with nonprofits in many sectors including those that serve: survivors of domestic violence, formerly incarcerated individuals, and individuals in workforce development programs.• Created and facilitated interactive financial development and consumer law trainings and webinars and developed companion written materials for practitioners nationwide. • Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated contracts for many of the Clinic’s partnerships.• Developed and led “Know Your Rights” workshops in English and Spanish at domestic violence shelters to empower shelter residents to assert their rights under consumer law statutes and attain financial security. • Developed and piloted content for online platform called Change Machine. Managed an online community of practice for the financial development field.

New York, Ny

• Conducted intake interviews in English and Spanish for complainants with claims of discrimination and violation of civil rights laws in employment, housing, and places of public accommodation. • Handled jurisdictional cases from start to finish, which included drafting complaints, investigating claims of discrimination, brokering settlements with adverse parties, drafting no probable cause determinations, and representing the Commission at administrative hearings. • Dual filed cases on behalf of complainants with claims under Title VII, ADA, and ADEA.Managed numerous cases with Spanish-speaking complainants.Served as an EEO professional for the Commission, investigating internal EEO complaints and reviewing reasonable accommodation requests.

New York, Ny

• Taught a ninth grade introductory law course and a tenth grade criminal justice course. • Motivated students to engage in genuine issue spotting, critical thinking, and legal analysis and writing. • Developed a unit on Copyright law, which culminated in ninth graders applying the statutory fair use factors to analyze whether or not Two Live Crew’s parody of Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” constituted copyright infringement. • Created mock Supreme Court curriculum for tenth graders in which they considered the case of Uttecht v. Brown (a case before the Supreme Court that year considering whether the exclusion of a particular prospective juror from a jury in a death penalty case entitled the defendant to federal habeas relief) complete with appellate briefs, a judicial decision, oral argument, and questions from what turned out to be a very hot bench. • Served as the faculty advisor for the school’s Model United Nations team.

New York, Ny

• Researched and drafted legal memoranda on various topics including: vacating and confirming arbitral awards, service of process, collateral estoppel, res judicata, and numerous issues relating to the representation of a creditor in a bankruptcy proceeding.

Jd, Graduated With High Honors

Activities and Societies: Connecticut Law Review, Articles Editor; Teaching Assistant for Property (fall 2004 – spring 2005); Research.

Ba, History

Activities and Societies: Community Impact, Volunteer Teacher (prepared Spanish-speaking adult students for GED math exam in Spanish).

High Scool Diploma