Sentence Mitigation; Parole Advocacy; Immigration Defense
Posted by Shreya Mandal on 12/12/06
Ms. Mandal divides her independent practice as a forensic
mitigation specialist and private clinical psychotherapist.
She has extensive experience in criminal and civil legal
proceedings. Ms. Mandal has conducted mitigation on
potential state and federal capital cases in New York, New
Jersey, and Connecticut and has been involved in numerous
felony Rockefeller Drug Law resentencing cases in New York
City. Her work has given her experience with over 50
correctional facilities in the northeast. She has also
consulted with the Innocence Project of New York. Her
mitigation practice extends to providing assessment of
extreme hardship, child abuse, spousal abuse, and asylum in
immigration cases.
Ms. Mandal has been working as an in-house mitigation
specialist at the Legal Aid Society of New York since 2004
and now also works independently on various cases as a
freelancer. She briefly worked as a staff attorney at the
Bronx Defenders in New York. Ms. Mandal holds a Juris
Doctorate degree from Rutgers-Newark School of Law and a
Master of Clinical Social Work degree from Smith College
School for Social Work, an internationally recognized
clinical program. She is a New York State Licensed Master
of Social Work and is currently working toward an advanced
clinical license in psychotherapy (LCSW)in New York. Ms.
Mandal has also completed post-graduate training in
alternative therapies at The Wellness Institute in
Washington.
Her legal training gives her the benefit of understanding
the legal implications of her clinical assessments and
mitigation, and her clinical skills have helped her during
challenging legal advocacy. She draws holistic insight from
two different worlds of both law and social work.
Fluency in Bengali (Bangla)
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