-: I'm Linda Gehron, I'm the President and CEO
of the Hiscock Legal Aid Society.
We serve low-income people in Onondaga County
in need of legal services.
There are criminal appeals cases,
civil legal services that include divorce,
custody, child support, income maintenance,
immigration, housing, and a number of other cases.
We have our family court program,
which handles custody, child support,
child welfare cases, and
then finally our parole program,
which represents people who are serving parole
and now may have to go back and serve
some more time for violating their parole.
So, I'm responsible for the overall
management of the office.
We have 70 employees, a little more than
30 attorneys, and then a little more than
30 law assistants and administrative staff.
So, overall management to make sure
that attorneys are well trained
and supervised and supported, and the same
with the support staff law assistants,
make sure that they're well trained
and able to handle support to the attorneys,
and that we're doing our best job
as we possibly can representing clients,
and serving as many clients as we possibly can.
Also, just responsible for the overall
fiscal management and legal management of the organization.
Every now and then I'll be involved
in a case just as a, in a supervisory role
if there's a very unusual case,
one needing some expert attention.
I'll work with what we call our management team
to sort of problem solve on the case.
And then every now and then,
a client might not be happy with our services,
and then I'm glad to talk with them
and try to make sure that we can, you know,
make sure they're getting the service that they need.