Adrienne Flipse Hausch For the third time in her legal career, Attorney Adrienne Flipse Hausch of Garden City has been recognized for her outstanding pro bono legal commitment. She was again named the Pro Bono Attorney of the Month, it was announced in October by Nassau County Bar Association (NCBA) President Peter Levy. Hausch offers legal representation to the neediest Nassau County residents through the Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP), which is supported by NCBA.

Hausch has spent more than 612 hours volunteering her legal services for 24 cases since she was last named Pro Bono Attorney of the Month, in December 1999. She was first recognized with this honor in 1989. This is on top of her busy law practice, Carway and Flipse in Mineola, where she spends 60-75 hours a week focusing on matrimonial, real estate and criminal defense cases.

Hausch received her B.A. from Hofstra University in 1972 and graduated from St. John's University School of Law in 1976. She held several positions as an attorney connected to New York State legislators before going into private practice. Her calling to help others goes beyond the legal profession. In 1995, Hausch received her Masters of Divinity from New Brunswick Theological Seminary and was ordained as a Minister of the Word, Reformed Church of America. She currently serves as the Pastor for Congregational Care at the Community Church of Douglaston.

Beyond congregational care, private practice, and pro bono services, Hausch pursues an extraordinary amount of professional and community service activities. As a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, she serves on the Pro Bono Committee, Professional Ethics Committee, Matrimonial and Family Law Committee, Criminal Law and Procedure Committee, and the WE CARE Advisory Board. She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Since March 2000 she has been a member of the Committee on Character and Fitness for the Second Department, Appellate Division, Tenth and Eleventh Judicial Districts. She has been a member of NCBA's Annual Dinner Committee for many years, and a facilitator for the P.E.A.C.E. program. She served on two NYSBA committees from 2000 to 2002, the Publications Committee and the Committee on the Legal Representation of Children, and was the coordinator of the Pro Bono Matrimonial Law Program from 1998 to 2002. She was secretary of the Nassau County Criminal Justice Lions from 1997 to 2003. In 2000, NCBA named her the Thomas Maligno Pro Bono Attorney of the Year.

Her ongoing community activities include the Nassau County Republican Committee of Garden City, the Institutional Resources Committee of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary Board of Trustees (having been a Board member from 2001 to last June), and the Board of Trustees of the Long Island Council of Churches and its Western Steering Committee. For four years she served on the Board of Trusties of the Blanton-Peale Institute.