Stacey B. Slater
Pro Bono Partner

Experience

Stacey Slater leads the pro bono program firm-wide at Nixon Peabody LLP. In this role, she manages the firm's expanding pro bono program and chairs the firm's Pro Bono Committee. She regularly presents on pro bono and works to match pro bono opportunities with the interests of the firm's lawyers and paralegals. She oversees both internal and external communication about the firm's pro bono work and pro bono success stories. She also supervises several pro bono matters, and is involved in several new initiatives, such as partnering with clients and partnering with law students on pro bono matters.

Ms. Slater has successfully represented several refugee clients seeking asylum in the United States, including a monk from Tibet, two young men from Sudan and the Republic of Congo, and a young woman from the Gambia. In these cases, the clients seeking asylum were fleeing persecution in their homelands and would have likely faced arrest, torture, and possible execution if deported. She began her pro bono work at Fordham Law School, where she worked on behalf of victims of domestic violence and helped to found Fordham's Battered Women's Advocacy Project.

For the ten years prior to being appointed firm wide Pro Bono Partner, Stacey Slater focused her practice on business litigation and arbitration. She has represented domestic and foreign corporations, investment banks, owners of power plants, and individuals in a variety of business and commercial disputes on issues ranging from breach of contract to fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. Ms. Slater has also represented several large landlords of commercial office buildings in New York City.

Affiliations
Ms. Slater is a member of the New York City Bar Association, The American Bar Association, and the New York Women’s Bar Association.

Education

Fordham University School of Law, J.D.
Cornell University, B.S.