Hallie joined PLS in September of 2015.  She works in PLS’s civil rights practice litigating and advocating on behalf of a wide variety of clients including people with disabilities and people in solitary confinement.  Her past work included clinical work at the Innocence Project clinic and the Cardozo Civil Rights Clinic, as well as an internship at the Legal Aid Society Criminal Defense Practice’s Special Litigation Unit where she worked on solitary confinement appeals for individuals at Rikers Island.  Her note “Estelle v. Gamble in a Post-Affordable Care Act World” was published by the Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal in summer 2015.  Hallie is a graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo school of Law and Cornell University. While at Cornell, Hallie was a teaching assistant in the Cornell Prison Education Program at Auburn Correctional Facility.  Hallie is admitted to the state bars of New York and New Jersey and admitted to practice in the United State Districts Court for the Northern and Western Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey.