Ms. Diller coordinates the Brennan Center's legislative and public education campaign to eliminate the private money restriction on legal services programs and works on other initiatives in the Center's Access to Justice Project. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Ms. Diller served as a staff attorney at and then director of the New York Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Rights Project, where she oversaw litigation, legislative and public education initiatives. Previously, she represented low-income clients in housing and government benefits cases at Legal Services for the Elderly in Queens and at Housing Works, Inc. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where was an Arthur Garfield Hays fellow, and her B.A. from Rutgers University.

Blog Entries by Rebekah Diller

Legal Help in the Subprime Crisis

Posted January 9, 2008 | 02:16 PM (EST)


As the nation continues to reel from the subprime mortgage crisis, all eyes are on Washington for much-needed relief. But federal responses will only go so far unless Congress addresses one persistent and confounding fact: most low- and moderate-income homeowners facing foreclosure simply can't obtain legal help to defend their...

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Manufacturing a "Scandal" at the Legal Services Corporation

Posted June 24, 2007 | 09:36 PM (EST)


What to do when you have it in for a federal agency that is recognized on both sides of the aisle for providing high-quality services to Americans in need, all the while operating on a shoestring (about half of its 1981 budget in real terms)?

Manufacture a...

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