Benjamin Pomerance, Esq., discusses his upcoming publication in Volume 37, Issue 3 which provides a wish list of nine items for the incoming VA Secretary to address. This insightful podcast is a must watch for Veterans and those who work with them.
For more information, you can contact Mr. Pomerance at Benjamin.Pomerance@veterans.ny.gov
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Our guest today is Benjamin Pomerance, Esq.
Benjamin Pomerance, Esq.
Benjamin Pomerance, Esq., is the Deputy Director for Program Development for the New York State Division of Veterans’ Services. In this role, he serves as the Deputy General Counsel for the agency, as well as working as the agency’s Legislative Liaison, supervising all the Division’s training work, running the agency’s appellate advocacy unit, and overseeing several of the Division’s programming initiatives. His work focuses on advocacy and assistance for Veterans, Servicemembers, and their families on a wide range of federal and state issues.
Apart from his work for the Division, scholarly journals at Albany, Belmont, Delaware, Florida Coastal, Gonzaga, Hamline, Ohio Northern, Oregon, Marquette, Maryland, Touro, and Wyoming law schools have published or will soon publish Benjamin’s articles on topics ranging from elder law to the federal judiciary to freedom of speech in post-revolutionary governments. A chapter on Veterans Treatment Courts that he co-authored appeared in a book published in December 2019 about the intersection between Veterans’ Law and mental health services, edited by leading academics from Harvard and Yale. He also contributed a chapter to an internationally published elder law anthology, and served as a peer reviewer for the Drug Court Review’s Veterans Treatment Courts special issue. The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has cited his written work, as have several books and legal journals.
His recent speaking engagements include multiple New York State Bar Association presentations and panel discussions at the international Law & Society Conference in 2019, 2018, 2016, and 2015; the 2018 National Association of Consumer Advocates Convention; the 2017 international Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference; the International Elder Law & Policy Conference; and the International Conference on Contracts, as well as facilitating multiple programs in every region of New York State regarding benefits, programs, and services for Veterans and their families. He also taught the Veterans’ Law class at Albany Law School in 2021 and 2020, the first course in this practice area in the law school’s history.
Benjamin graduated as the salutatorian of his class from Albany Law School in 2013. While at Albany Law, he founded and directed the school’s Veterans’ Rights Pro Bono Project, for which he received the “President’s Pro Bono Service Award” from the New York State Bar Association. He served as the Executive Editor for Symposium for the Albany Law Review, led the school’s student chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and published a report about human rights concerns confronting America’s aging prison population as an Edgar & Margaret Sandman Fellow with the Government Law Center.
Apart from his work in the law, Benjamin is an avid arts journalist with more than 500 published articles, a pursuit for which he has received first-place awards in feature writing from the New York State Press Association, including the Association’s first-place award for Coverage of the Arts in 2020. During the summers of 2021 and 2020, Benjamin served as the Producer of Curbside At Harborside, a drive-in concert series in his hometown of Plattsburgh featuring professional musicians across multiple genres.
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