Yisroel Schulman

Yisroel Schulman, Esq. was the President & Attorney-in-Charge of the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization that provides free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers. Mr. Schulman was the President of NYLAGfrom its founding in 1990 until 2015 and has spent his entire legal career in the realm of public interest law. On February 3, 2015, Mr. Schulman resigned as President and Attorney-in-Charge of NYLAG.
Mr. Schulman holds a B.A. from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and a J.D. from Benjamin Cardozo Law School. In 1999 he was the inaugural winner of Cardozo’s Alumni Achievement Award.
Prior to his inception of NYLAG, Mr. Schulman was a faculty member at the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University. Concurrently, Mr. Schulman served as the Supervising Attorney for Cardozo Bet Tzedek Legal Services. Earlier, as staff attorney for the JASA Legal Assistance Program, Mr. Schulman represented senior citizens on a broad variety of matters including Medicaid, home care, public benefits, housing and guardianship. He continues to lecture regularly to groups of elderly individuals on the legal issues affecting them and sits on the Board of Directors of several charitable agencies.
Yisroel Schulman has served as lead counsel for over one dozen federal and state court class actions and is a member of the American, New York State, New Jersey, District of Columbia, and New York City Bar Associations. He also holds admittance to the Federal Courts Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District Court of New Jersey, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
In August 2000, Yisroel Schulman received The New York State Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Public Service in the Legal Profession. He was named a Fellow on Aging by the Brookdale Institute in 1995. He is the Founder and Honorary President of the Institute of American and Talmudic Law.
Mr. Schulman lectures regularly on legal issues affecting New Yorkers and his work appears in a number of publications. He is well published with articles on non-profit management and a study titled, “An Examination of the Origins and Strategies of Influence of Interest Groups.”
Mr. Schulman is the President of Congregation Tzemach Tzedek, a Lubavitch synagogue in Monsey, New York. As a leader in this community, he serves as the President of three private, Jewish schools: Cheder Chabad of Monsey, Yeshiva Menachem Mendel Lubavitch, and Monsey Beis Chaya Mushka. Mr. Schulman is the founder of the MAYANOT Taglit-birthright Israel program that provides Jewish youth free trips to Israel. He sits on the Board of Directors of several charitable agencies including the Jewish Federation of Rockland, Hillel of Rockland, and the Jewish Opportunities Institute, among others.