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Kaylin currently serves on the American Bar Association Commission on IOLTA (Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts). She is the immediately Past Chair of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Professional Discipline Committee. Kaylin served as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics; The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Council on the Profession Committee and Litigation Funding Task Force; the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Ethics Compendium Board of Advisors; and Secretary of the Ethics and Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, New York Chapter.

Kaylin served as President of the Association of Black Women Attorneys and Board member of the National Bar Association’s Board of Governors. She served as member of the Network of Bar Leaders’ Executive Council, and the New York State Bar Association’s Nomination Committee, and Committee on Leadership Development. Kaylin is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Executive Committee, a member of the House of Delegates, Co-Chair of the Committee of Bar Leaders, Secretary of the Women in the Law Section; and a New York State Bar Foundation Fellow. Outside the legal community, Kaylin serves on the Board of Catholic Migration Services and served on the Board of Unique People Services, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving individuals with developmental disabilities, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS.

Kaylin is a frequent Continuing Legal Education presenter at Bar Associations, law firms, and other organizations. She has spoken at the American Bar Association; the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers; the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers’ Association, the Brooklyn Bar Association, the Women’s Bar Association of New York, the Westchester Legal Aid Society, the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Defense Association of New York, the Puerto Rican Bar Association, Practicing Law Institute, Lawline, Fordham University School of Law; and Harvard School of Law.

Kaylin is featured in the Book and World Exhibit—”200 Women: Who Will Change the Way You See the World.” She is the recipient of the 2016 Black Women of Influence (BWOI) Trailblazer Award; 2017 Association of Black Women Attorneys Achievement Award; 2018 National Bar Association Presidential Award; the 2020 National Top 100 Black Lawyers; and was named a 2022 Super Lawyer for the New York Metro Area. Guided by her mantra: “Inspire. Empower. Engage.”—Kaylin advocates for women rights, immigrants, victims of domestic violence, and the mentally ill.

Kaylin is admitted in New York, New Jersey, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the United State District Court of New Jersey.

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