Staff

Laura Abel

Laura Abel

Interim Legal Director, label@lawyersalliance.org, (212) 219-1800 ext. 283

Laura Abel has been Senior Policy Counsel at Lawyers Alliance for New York since 2013 and is currently Interim Legal Director. In this capacity, she leads Lawyers Alliance's advocacy-related work on behalf of the nonprofit sector and provides business law representation to nonprofits engaged in advocacy. Prior to joining Lawyers Alliance, she was Deputy Director of the National Center for Access to Justice at Cardozo Law School, Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, and a fellow at Gibbons P.C. and the ACLU. She graduated from Yale Law School and Harvard College.

Pronouns: she/her

Favorite New York City spot: Hammock grove on Governor’s Island