Peter Dellinger

Peter Dellinger, Esq.

Peter Dellinger is an attorney with the Empire Justice Center, a non-profit law firm in Rochester, New York, where he represents low-income clients in consumer, civil rights and employment matters.  He received his B.A. degree from St. Michael's College, University of Toronto in 1974, and then studied at American University, where he received an M.A. in American Government and Political Behavior in 1977.  From 1976 to 1978, he was a Robert F. Kennedy Fellow.  After completing his J.D. degree at the Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C. in 1981, he clerked for Judge John T. Curtin of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York.

Mr. Dellinger began his legal services career in the Midwest, where he directed a state-wide legal services program representing migrant farmworkers in minium wage, housing, employment, and immigration matters.  During this time, he completed course work at the Academia Hispano Americana in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in 1985 and 1987.  He subsequently represented consumers in utility matters in the District of Columbia, before coming to Rochester in 1991.  He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Ohio, and New York, and before the United States Tax Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

 

The Empire Justice Center

The Empire Justice Center is a statewide, multi-issue, multi-strategy non-profit law firm focused on changing the ”systems” within which poor and low income families live.  Our   offices are located in Rochester, Albany and White Plains, and focus on poverty law, research and training, acting as an informational clearinghouse, and providing  litigation support to local legal services programs and community based organizations. 

As an advocacy organization, Empire Justice engages in legislative and administrative advocacy on behalf of those affected by poverty and discrimination.  As a non-profit law firm, Empire Justice provides legal assistance to those in need and undertakes litigation in order to protect and defend the rights of disenfranchised New Yorkers.