Deirdre M.W. Lok, Esq. is the Assistant Director and General Counsel for The Weinberg Center for Elder Justice at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale. She manages the operations of the shelter; providing legal services to older adults who have in experienced abuse in Supreme Court, Housing Court, and Family Court. An Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Lok directs the law school’s HELP (Helping Elders through Litigation and Policy) Clinic. She is a frequent speaker on the issue of elder abuse and the law and has guest lectured at Penn State Dickinson School of Law, Cardozo Law School, Touro Law, Hofstra Law School, and CUNY Law School. She has provided training to attorneys through the American Bar Association, the New York State’s Judicial Institute, the Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, and New York Bar Associations, and is a faculty member of Lawline. Ms. Lok is appointed to the Age-Friendly NYC Commission, is chair of the American Bar Association’s Senior Lawyer’s Division, Elder Abuse Prevention Committee, and served as Chair of the Policy and Procedure Subcommittee of the New York State Committee on Elder Justice. Prior to joining The Weinberg Center, she was a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Oahu, Hawaii, and an Assistant District Attorney in the Queens County District Attorney’s Office where she focused on domestic violence cases. She is the recipient of the New York Law Journal 2017 General Counsel Impact Award. Ms. Lok is a Certified Trauma Professional and Elder and Adult Family Mediator.