My guest is writer and lawyer Amy Bach, who has written, Ordinary Injustice, How America Holds Court, “…the exposure and systematic shoddiness at the core of the American criminal justice system…” from Publishers Weekly. Guy Fairstein, now of Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, will join me as a guest panelist.

                                                                        

                             Guy Fairstein                           Amy Bach                          

Amy Bach, a member of the New York bar, has written on law for The Nation, The American Lawyer, and New York magazine, among other publications. For her work in progress on Ordinary Injustice, Bach received a Soros Media Fellowship, a special J. Anthony Lukas citation, and a Radcliffe Fellowship. She was a Knight Foundation Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School. Ms Bach is a graduate of Brown University and the Stanford Law School. After law school she clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett, judge of the 11th Circuit of Appeals in Miami, Fla.

She was raised in NYC and currently lives in Rochester, New York, where she has taught legal studies at the University of Rochester. She is currently a Soros Justice Media Fellow at The Open Society Institute. Recently, she held the Hayward Burns Memorial Fellowship at The Nation Institute, where she wrote a series of articles about injustice for The Nation magazine.
Guy R. Fairstein is a graduate of Williams College (B.A., 1966) and the University of Virginia School of Law (LL.B., 1969). During almost 40 years in the practice of law, Guy has concentrated his practice in the field of civil litigation, mostly cases involving commercial transactions and business entities, and some cases in the field of trusts and estates.  He has represented individuals, privately owned businesses, and some large corporations, in all phases of civil litigation.  Clients for which he has tried cases include Allied Stores Corporation (age discrimination action), KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (injunctive action under the Railway Labor Act), and Simon & Schuster (breach of contract action).  

For almost 20 years Guy has given his time to service as a volunteer mediator in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Since July 2008 he has provided pro bono representation to indigent clients as a volunteer attorney working in association with Legal Services of the Hudson Valley.  Guy’s niche pro bono practice area concerns default judgments, wage garnishments and frozen bank accounts.

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