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Name
Stanley Holdorf, Esq.
Title
DE-NJ NLG SUPERVISING ATTORNEY
Bio
Stanley Holdorf, Supervising Attorney, Delaware-New Jersey National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Program & Prisoners Legal Advocacy Network (PLAN). Stanley’s grassroots organizing traces back to the summer of 1968 when he participated in a demonstration for the release of Black Panthers Co-Founder Huey P. Newton. Then a law student at Stanford, the unexpectedly violent turn of that action galvanized Stanley’s belief in the critical importance of mass defense for the protection of protesters’ rights.
Following his graduation from Stanford Law School in 1969, Stanley engaged in alternative service as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War.
He then worked in corporate law, training every department in his firm in the non-discrimination requirements of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Through this work, Stanley worked with corporate personnel ranging from factory floor supervisors to corporate board members and the company’s President to assure that all employees’ rights pursuant to the newly enacted Civil Rights Act were swiftly and comprehensively observed.
Beginning in 2001, Stanley reported to the Executive Director of Trial Lawyers Care as TLC’s Database Coordinator and Economic Loss Expert. In this role, Stanley helped recruit, train and assign trial lawyer volunteers from around the country to assist victims of the 9/11 attacks and surviving family members in their efforts to exercise their rights under the law to access financial relief through the federal Victim Compensation Fund (VCF). TLC remains the largest pro bono legal initiative in the history of the United States, logging the hourly equivalent of approximately 100 years of volunteer lawyer services. VCF’s adoption of Stanley’s proposed revision to the economic eligibility formula increased survivors’ access to financial relief. By adding non- monetary income such as victims’ union benefits to the calculation of lost salaries, Stanley’s proposal rendered the distribution of federal funds more equitable for lower wage earners.
Since 2005, Stanley has served on the board of the National Family Court Watch Project, an initiative that assesses the family court system’s effectiveness in adjudicating cases, especially those that involve allegations of child abuse or other family violence, using an innovative legal observing model in court settings. Stanley recently co- authored “Eyes on the Family Court: Creating an Effective Data Collection Instrument,” which leads the Summer 2019 edition of Family & Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly. This article documents the findings of National Family Court Watch Project’s 15-year study of judicial treatment of (frequently pro se) litigants who allege domestic violence or child abuse in family court proceedings compared to the court’s treatment of litigants who do not. Stanley has presented findings of this study, which covered over 600 court cases in six states, at a variety of professional conferences including the Battered Mothers Custody Conference (BMCC) and the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT).
In 2009, Stanley expanded his pro bono practice to include legal advocacy in the area of prisoners’ rights, with an emphasis on service to incarcerated individuals whose charges arise from their political activism or efforts to defend themselves or their children from family violence, or whose convictions are the arguable result of racial bias. Stanley helped re-establish the Delaware-New Jersey National Lawyers Guild in 2015. In addition to chairing the Delaware-New Jersey NLG, Stanley also serves as supervising attorney for the Delaware-New Jersey NLG’s Mass Defense Program and Prisoners Legal Advocacy Network.
Since 1994, Stanley has also served as registrar for the Khirbat Iskandar archaeological expedition in Jordan. He co-wrote and co- edited the 2010 volume entitled, Khirbat Iskandar: Final Report on the Early Bronze IV Area C “Gateway” and Cemeteries, which shared the Biblical Archaeology Society’s 2011 Award for Best Scholarly Book on Archaeology.
Following his graduation from Stanford Law School in 1969, Stanley engaged in alternative service as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War.
He then worked in corporate law, training every department in his firm in the non-discrimination requirements of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Through this work, Stanley worked with corporate personnel ranging from factory floor supervisors to corporate board members and the company’s President to assure that all employees’ rights pursuant to the newly enacted Civil Rights Act were swiftly and comprehensively observed.
Beginning in 2001, Stanley reported to the Executive Director of Trial Lawyers Care as TLC’s Database Coordinator and Economic Loss Expert. In this role, Stanley helped recruit, train and assign trial lawyer volunteers from around the country to assist victims of the 9/11 attacks and surviving family members in their efforts to exercise their rights under the law to access financial relief through the federal Victim Compensation Fund (VCF). TLC remains the largest pro bono legal initiative in the history of the United States, logging the hourly equivalent of approximately 100 years of volunteer lawyer services. VCF’s adoption of Stanley’s proposed revision to the economic eligibility formula increased survivors’ access to financial relief. By adding non- monetary income such as victims’ union benefits to the calculation of lost salaries, Stanley’s proposal rendered the distribution of federal funds more equitable for lower wage earners.
Since 2005, Stanley has served on the board of the National Family Court Watch Project, an initiative that assesses the family court system’s effectiveness in adjudicating cases, especially those that involve allegations of child abuse or other family violence, using an innovative legal observing model in court settings. Stanley recently co- authored “Eyes on the Family Court: Creating an Effective Data Collection Instrument,” which leads the Summer 2019 edition of Family & Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly. This article documents the findings of National Family Court Watch Project’s 15-year study of judicial treatment of (frequently pro se) litigants who allege domestic violence or child abuse in family court proceedings compared to the court’s treatment of litigants who do not. Stanley has presented findings of this study, which covered over 600 court cases in six states, at a variety of professional conferences including the Battered Mothers Custody Conference (BMCC) and the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT).
In 2009, Stanley expanded his pro bono practice to include legal advocacy in the area of prisoners’ rights, with an emphasis on service to incarcerated individuals whose charges arise from their political activism or efforts to defend themselves or their children from family violence, or whose convictions are the arguable result of racial bias. Stanley helped re-establish the Delaware-New Jersey National Lawyers Guild in 2015. In addition to chairing the Delaware-New Jersey NLG, Stanley also serves as supervising attorney for the Delaware-New Jersey NLG’s Mass Defense Program and Prisoners Legal Advocacy Network.
Since 1994, Stanley has also served as registrar for the Khirbat Iskandar archaeological expedition in Jordan. He co-wrote and co- edited the 2010 volume entitled, Khirbat Iskandar: Final Report on the Early Bronze IV Area C “Gateway” and Cemeteries, which shared the Biblical Archaeology Society’s 2011 Award for Best Scholarly Book on Archaeology.
