SIDEBAR: Park Slope Lawyer Jimmy Lathrop
Jaime Lathrop, better known as Jimmy, also known as “the Park Slope Lawyer,” is a Manhattan-born attorney who graduated from Wilton High School in Connecticut, got his undergraduate degree at Bates College in Maine and went to Brooklyn Law School.
Lathrop is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Bar Association (BBA) and was the director of the Foreclosure Intervention Program administered through the BBA’s Volunteer Lawyer’s Project (VLP).
Lathrop has been recognized for his pro bono work by the New York State Courts Access to Justice Program, along with the New York County Lawyers’ Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York and received a Distinguished Service Award from the BBA in 2011 for his work with the VLP.