About me
Aili C. Monahan is the Director of the Pro Bono Partnerships Project at Northeast New Jersey Legal Services. In her role as Director, she manages a team of five full-time pro bono staff in their mission to provide access to justice to residents of Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic Counties in New Jersey. As a 2024 grantee of the Pro Bono Innovation Fund of the Legal Services Corporation, Aili also manages NNJLS’s Clean Record Initiative, which provides full scope legal representation to individuals seeking to clear their criminal history in New Jersey. Currently, Aili serves on the Pro Bono Committee for the New Jersey State Bar Association and is a member of the National Assocation of Pro Bono Professionals.
Prior to joining NNJLS in 2023, Aili managed a solo law firm where she concentrated her legal practice on providing specialized in-house litigation services to multi-state insurance companies. Aili also worked as a Pool Attorney for the Office of the Law Guardian, where she represented children who were involved in the child welfare system. Earlier in her career, Aili served as a Case Supervisor at Hudson County Court-Appointment Special Advocates (CASA), where, as one of the only attorneys on staff, she supervised CASA volunteers in their work to advocate for CASA’s goals of securing safe, permanent homes for children whose families were involved in the child welfare system.
Aili started her legal career as a commercial litigation attorney at a large firm in New Jersey and previously clerked in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey. Aili earned a B.A. in mathematics from Bryn Mawr College and a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law. She is admitted to practice law in New Jersey, New York, and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
