Partners

Cynthia Domingo-Foraste, Executive Director

Cynthia comes to CSLP from Safe Horizon, the country’s largest victim services provider, where she served as Director of the Domestic Violence Law Project. Prior to that, she provided a variety of civil legal services to families affected by terminal illness across the five boroughs at The Family Center. Cynthia has extensive experience in matrimonial and family law, housing law, and trusts and estates, as well as in program design and management. She is passionate about helping all New Yorkers access the fundamental legal services they need

Karen L. Cahn, Supervising Attorney

Karen, a native New Yorker, has been practicing law for more than thirty years. Her background includes criminal defense litigation, cooperative conversion work, Housing Court litigation, and general civil litigation and transactional matters. The majority of her practice, however, has been in the family and matrimonial law field, to which she has dedicated more than twenty years. A trained mediator, she has handled numerous cases involving divorce, custody, parental access, child support, spousal support, equitable distribution, and post-judgment enforcement proceedings in both Family and Supreme Courts. Karen has also drafted and reviewed numerous pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements.  Karen received her J.D. from Washington College of Law, and her B.A. in Philosophy from SUNY Binghamton.

Ruth Chung

Ruth graduated from City University of New York School of Law in 2016, with a focus in public interest family law. While at CUNY, Ruth represented clients in parental defense and child advocacy cases, and was very active in trial and moot court competitions. More recently, as a Launchpad for Justice Fellow, she represented pro se litigants in consumer debt and uncontested divorce matters. Prior to CUNY, Ruth received her Masters Degree in Forensic Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Rafael Guillermety

Rafael graduated from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University in 2014. During law school, Rafael interned at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s office of Public Law and Policy in Washington D.C. Prior to law school, Rafael was a paralegal for the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company. Rafael has an LL.M. in Corporate, Commercial, and Securities Law from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Kyoung Jung

Prior to joining the Court Square Law Project, Kyoung worked with a distribution company handling contract law matters. She graduated from Rutgers Law School in 2016. At Rutgers, she represented clients with disabilities in Social Security Disability (SSD) appeals. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Korea University.