Lori Adams
Staff Attorney
Refugee Protection Program
Joined Human Rights First in 2006

Lori Adams helps oversee Human Rights First’s pro bono representation program for indigent asylum seekers.  Lori provides support to volunteers from law firms in New York and New Jersey who represent asylum seekers through our program.  She also provides information and legal services to asylum seekers in DHS detention, and helps to coordinate their legal representation.

Before joining Human Rights First, Lori was an attorney advisor for the New York Immigration Court, where she drafted decisions for twenty-eight immigration judges and supervised the work of the court’s law clerks and interns.  During law school, she worked for the American Civil Liberties Union and for the Honorable Deborah A. Batts in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. 

She graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Oregon in 2000, and received her law degree from New York Law School in 2004.

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