Barbara Weiner is staff attorney with the Greater Upstate Law Project, Inc., specializing in poverty law issues, since August of 1990. Admitted to practice in California in 1976 and in New York in 1982, she has spent most of her legal career with legal services programs, both in New York and in California. Prior to joining GULP, Ms. Weiner was employed by the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Inc., a field legal services program serving six upstate counties around the tri-cities area of Albany, Schenectady and Troy. As a staff attorney, she represented low income clients in a variety of poverty related cases, including challenges to reductions or terminations of public assistance and the representation of low income tenants in both public and private housing. She also served as legal counsel in various impact law cases, including a challenge to the application practices of a local social services district. Ms. Weiner has developed an expertise in Food Stamps and in immigrant access to public benefits
