Brad H., a state court class action to force the New York City jail system to provide discharge planning to mentally ill inmates it has identified and treated while they are incarcerated, so they can continue treatment on release to the community. The policy of the City Department of Corrections had been to release inmates with no arrangements for continuing care, no transitional supplies of medication, no benefits to pay for treatment and medication and other necessities, and often no place to live. Together with co-counsel from NYLPI member-firm Debevoise & Plimpton and the Urban Justice Center, NYLPI sued New York City to reform these discharge practices.

Matter of K.L., NYLPI, together with co-counsel from the New York Civil Liberties Union, Disability Advocates, Inc., and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health, filed an amicus brief on this appeal as part of the organizations's Involuntary Outpatient Commitment Watch (IOC Watch). The brief supported constitutional claims concerning certain aspects of IOC implementation.

Disability Advocates v. Pataki, NYLPI, together with the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Disability Advocates, Inc., MFY Legal Services, NYLPI member firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and the Urban Justice Center are counsel for adult home residents in Disability Advocates, Inc. v. Pataki. This federal court litigation seeks to compel New York State to provide more integrated living alternatives to institutionalized, segregated adult homes for people with serious mental illness who can and wish to live elsewhere.