Conference Background and Agenda
CONTACTING PRESENTERS
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Thomas Barton
Phone:
619-525-1687 Fax:
619-296-9999 Email: Tbarton@CWSL.edu
Thomas
D. Barton is Professor of Law and Director of the Brown Program in Preventive
Law at California Western School of Law. He
came to California Western in 1990 from West Virginia University College of Law,
where he was Roscoe P. Posten and Hale J. Posten Professor.
He currently teaches courses in Contract Law and Problem Solving, and has
taught many other subjects to law students and to undergraduates at the
University of California, San Diego where he is a Visiting Professor in the
Department of Sociology. Past courses included professional responsibility, legal
anthropology, law and economics, law and loyalty, punishment and responsibility,
energy law, and the forms of social control.
This variety of courses reflects his interest in the social, historical,
and intellectual contexts of law.
He has published numerous articles and essays dealing with legal and
political philosophy, legal sociology, and problem solving.
Robert
M. Bell, Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge
Phone:410-333-6396 Fax:410-347-3908 Email:vonda.reed@courts.state.md.us
Honorable Robert M. Bell is chief judge of
the Maryland Court of Appeals. He
is the chair of the Maryland Judicial Conference, Maryland Alternative Dispute
Resolution Commission, Maryland Committee on Building Public Trust and
Confidence in the Justice System, and the Oversight Committee to Maryland Legal
Assistance Network. Judge Bell came
to the bench in 1975 on the District Court of Maryland in Baltimore City,
followed by service on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City (1980-84) and
Maryland Court of Special Appeals (1984-91).
In 1991 he was appointed to the Maryland Court of Appeals.
With his designation by Governor Parris Glendening in 1996 as chief
judge, Judge Bell became the only active judge in Maryland to have served at
least four years on each judicial level and the first African American to head
Maryland’s highest court. In that
capacity, in addition to his judicial role he manages over 3,000 employees and
determines the annual budget. Prior
to beginning his judicial career, he was an associate at Piper & Marbury,
Baltimore, 1969-74. Judge Bell is a
graduate of Dunbar High School and Morgan State College, Baltimore, and Harvard
University Law School.
Lee
Borden
Phone:
205-979-6960 Fax:
205-979-6902 Email:
lee@divorceinfo.com
Lee
Borden works in uncontested divorce, divorce coaching, divorce mediation, and
adversarial divorce cases. He works
in Birmingham, Alabama in the Alabama Family Law Center, providing comprehensive
services for people going through divorce.
Mr. Borden graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. from University of
Illinois in 1979. Mr. Borden
graduated from University of Alabama with a M.B.A. in 1989.
In the years preceding Mr. Borden’s second graduate degree he worked as
an Attorney for the firm Bradley, Arant, Rose, and White, followed by service as
a Corporate attorney for Southern Progress Corporation. Mr. Borden also worked in a variety of both legal and
non-legal roles for Parisian, Inc. until his present job with the Alabama Family
Law Center. Mr. Borden currently
hosts a website - www.divorceinfo.com, the equivalent of a 2,500-page
comprehensive guidebook on divorce. The
website receives about 25,000 page views per day.
Charles
Brofman, President and Co-CEO of Cybersettle.com, Inc.
Phone: 212-672-7207 Fax: 212-672-7107
Email: rjaedicke@cybersettle.com
Charles
S. Brofman has been an admitted attorney in New York State since 1982. A 1981
graduate of Fordham Law School, Mr. Brofman began his career as an Assistant
District Attorney in Bronx County New York, where he served until August 1986.
Thereafter, he entered the private practice of law and concentrated in the areas
of commercial litigation and personal injury defense.
Mr.
Brofman has litigated in the United States District Courts for the Southern,
Eastern and Western Districts of New York and has defended clients in such
diverse areas as workers compensation, environmental claims, sexual harassment,
contract claims, and general tort defense. He worked as oversight counsel for a
large wire manufacturer, reviewing legal and related bills for discrepancies and
was responsible for reviewing and analyzing all insurance policies maintained by
the company.
Sophie
Elisabeth Bryan, Skadden Fellow – Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center of
Harvard Law School
Phone:
617-522-3003 Fax: 617-522-0715
Email: sebryan@law.harvard.edu
Sophia
Bryan, a Skadden Fellow, was instrumental in designing and implementing the new
General Practice Unit (GPU) at the Hale and Dorr
Legal
Services Center of Harvard Law School. The
GPU conducts intake interviews for all Center clients, and collects data, which
serves as an ongoing assessment of unmet legal needs. Prior to receiving the Skadden Fellowship, Ms. Bryan engaged
in four semesters of clinical placements at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services
Center. She received her JD from
Harvard Law School in June 2000.
Michael Cane, Attorney
- Tele-Lawyer 2300 W Sahara, Suite 500, Box 18, Las
Vegas, NV 89102
Phone:
702-312-6255 Fax: 702-312-6249
Email:telelaw@lvcablemodem.com
Michael Cane is the President and Chief
Executive Officer of Tele-Lawyer, Inc., an integrated phone and internet legal
services hub started as a legal advice hotline in 1989.
Mr. Cane attended the University of
California, Irvine where he graduated top in his class and received a B.A.
degree in Economics (June 1975). He
then went on to receive his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern
California School Of Law in May of 1978, also receiving high honors.
A licensed member of the Nevada, Washington, California and Hawaii State
Bars, Mr. Cane has clerked for Justice Thompson on the California Court of
Appeals, was
an associate with the law firm of Goodsill Anderson and Quinn in Hawaii,
a Partner with the Newport Beach Law firm of Wellman and Cane, an Associate
Professor of Business Law at the University of Hawaii, Chairman of the
Department of Financial Economics and Institutions at the University of Hawaii,
College of Business, a Professor of law at Western State University School of
Law, and the managing member of Cane and Company, a securities law
practice. He has published articles on a broad range of legal topics, and is
also the author of four books (Divorce, Taxes, Bankruptcy and Estate Planning)
in the Five Minute Lawyer books series published by Dell in May of 1995.
Kenneth Carson, VP, External Affairs & Alliances –
MyCounsel.com
Kenneth
Carson is a Vice President at MyCounsel.com, Inc., in Boston, Massachusetts. He
oversees relations with professional associations and alliances with Internet
and legal companies and organizations. At present, he serves as co-chair of the
Boston Bar Association's Computer and Internet Law Committee. Previously, he was
a partner at Sugarman, Rogers Barshak & Cohen, P.C., where he practiced
civil litigation, and served on the firm’s Executive Committee.
While there, he founded Netlitigation (www.netlitigation.com), a source
for news, commentary and content on Internet law and disputes.
Ken is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. Ken has
chaired programs on E-Commerce legal issues and on the Internet’s effect on
the legal profession, for the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council and for
the Boston Bar Association. He has also spoken and written about Internet
privacy and the law, and trial practice. This spring, he participated as a
panelist at the ABA Symposium, E-Lawyering: Lawyers Serving Society Through
Technology, sponsored by President William Paul and the Law Practice Management
Section.
Lorig
Charkoudian, Executive Director – Community Mediation Program
Phone: 410-516-1981 Fax: 410-516-0134 Email:
www.communitymediation.org
Lorig Charkoudian is the founder and
executive director of the Community Mediation Program in Baltimore.
CMP provided mediation services at no cost to resolve community, family,
and interpersonal conflicts in over 120 locations in Baltimore.
Ms. Charkoudian’s program has trained over 150 volunteer mediators, and
has established referral relationships with courts, the State’s Attorney,
police, social services and community organizations.
She is a member of the Maryland Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission
and Chair of the Maryland Association of Community Mediation Centers, and is a
adjunct professor in the Negotiations and Conflict Management Program at the
University of Baltimore. Ms.
Charkoudian is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University.
Jeanne
Charn, Director of the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center and Lecturer on Law
(Harvard Law School)
Phone: 617-495-5202
Fax: 617-496-2636
Email: charn@law.harvard.edu
Ms. Charn received her B.A. from Michigan
in 1967 and her J.D. from Harvard in 1970.
Upon graduation, she joined
Community Legal Assistance Office as a staff attorney and represented tenant
organizations, welfare rights groups, and individuals in landlord and tenant
disputes. From 1971 to 1973, Ms. Charn was a staff attorney at Mass Law Reform
Institute representing public housing tenant groups and providing training and
support for legal services advocates in the state.
She was named Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs at Harvard Law School
in 1973, and worked with Professor Bellow to develop the clinical program.
In 1975 she was appointed Lecturer in Law and continues to teach clinical
courses on professional skills, delivery of legal services and, with Professor
Duncan Kennedy, Housing Law and Policy. Ms.
Charn has served as Chair of the AALS Section on Clinical Education and been a
consultant to the Legal Services Corporation. Beginning in academic 2000-2001,
she will head up a new project at Harvard Law School that will make policy
recommendations on improving access the access of low and moderate income
Americans to civil legal services.
Robert Cleaves, Vice President and Chief
Legal Officer – Americounsel.com 50 Cobot Street, Needham, MA 62492
Phone: 781-444-0200
Fax: 781-444-1456
Email: Robert@americounsel.com
Robert Cleaves, IV, Esq., is Vice
President, Legal Affairs and Chief Legal Officer of AmeriCounsel.com, a
Boston-based legal web site. Mr.
Cleaves brings to AmeriCounsel over 15 years of legal experience in private and
governmental practice. Most recently, he has been a partner and Chairman of the
Environmental Law Group at Portland, ME based Verrill & Dana, Northern
New England's second largest law firm, where for the past two years he
has also served on the firm's Management Committee. In addition to his private
practice functions, Mr. Cleaves was appointed by Maine Governor McKernan to the
State's Fund Insurance Review Board and by Secretary of State Diamond to the
State's Electoral Reform Commission. He began his legal career at the U.S.
Department of Justice, following his selection into the Department's
Honors Program, becoming the youngest member of a white collar strike force on
environmental crime, and received numerous awards from the Justice Department
for distinctive achievements. Mr.
Cleaves graduated cum laude from Boston College Law School, and was a founder of
the School's Public Interest Law Foundation. He has a BA degree with High Honors
from Wesleyan University.
Bob
Clyde, Executive Director - Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation
Phone:
614-752-8919
Fax: 614-728-3749
Email: clyde@olaf.org
Bob Clyde is the executive director of the Ohio Legal
Assistance Foundation (OLAF). OLAF
administers IOLTA and filing fee funding for the provision of legal services in
Ohio. Mr. Clyde is a 1971 graduate
of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and was a staff attorney
with Northeast Ohio Legal Services in Youngstown, spending 12 years as the
executive director. Following his
17 year career with this legal services provider, in 1990 he joined the Ohio
Public Defender as Director of its civil legal services program. While employed by the Public Defender, Mr. Clyde helped to
found the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation.
The Foundation hired him as its first executive director in July, 1994.
Mr. Clyde’s professional
affiliations include membership in the Columbus, Ohio State and American Bar
Associations. He has been active in
the National Association of IOLTA Programs (NAIP), and is a recent past
president. Community affiliations
have included service on the board of Friends of the Homeless in Columbus.
He has provided pro bono assistance directly to the shelter and, as a
participant in the Columbus Bar Associations’s Homeless Program, to Friends’
clients. He has also served on the
boards of domestic violence shelters and a Planned Parenthood program.
Stuart R. Cohen, Managing Attorney –
AARP Foundation Litigation 601
East Street, NW, Washington, DC 20049
Phone:
202-434-2063 Fax:
202-434-6428
Email: scohen@aarp.org
Stuart R. Cohen is the Managing Attorney
of AARP Foundation Litigation (AFL), Washington, DC.
AFL advocates in federal and states courts on behalf of the 34 million
AARP members by supporting the legal rights of older Americans.
Previously Mr. Cohen had been the Executive Director of Camden Regional
Legal Services in New Jersey and Chief of Litigation of the Legal Aid Bureau in
Maryland. He received his J.D. from Wayne State University (Detroit)
and his B.S. from Michigan State University.
He is admitted to practice in DC, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York.
Phone: 410-576-9494 Fax:
410-385-1831 Email: acrawley@mdjustice.org
Ms. Crawley is currently directing the
development of the Maryland Legal Assistance Network (MLAN) on behalf of MLSC
and the Maryland legal services community. Prior to working with MLAN, Ayn
worked in legal services at the local, state and national levels. Most recently
she managed the Elder Law Support Projects at AARP/Legal Counsel for the Elderly
for 11 years in Washington, DC. She directed the development of this national
AoA-funded Elder Legal Assistance Support Center, which provided non-litigation
legal support to legal services providers serving low-income clients at the
local, state & national levels. She has written and trained on a variety of
public benefits, ADA and protective services issues as well as advocacy,
negotiation and management skills. She has also had hands-on and management
experience with a variety of legal delivery systems including pro se and legal
hotlines. She recently took a year-long sabbatical to attend the Kennedy School
of Government to examine issues such as managing change within organizations and
the emerging field of social entrepreneurship (public-private partnerships). She
took the lead in the team developing the “The Changing Face of Legal
Practice” conference.
Kari
Deming
Phone:
248-443-8068 Fax: 248-569-9980 Email: kdeming@mlan.net
Ms.
Deming is the Executive Director of the Counsel Advocacy Law Line, a seven
county, two program, centralized intake and service delivery system.
Before launching CALL, Kari implemented two single-program hotlines,
coordinated a full service and assisted pro per domestic violence clinic,
chaired Michigan’s State Planning Unbundling Work Group, and served on the
State’s Hotline Work Group.
Phone: 302-577-2692 Fax :302-577-3092 Email: jdvorak@state.de.us
Ms. Julie S. Dvorak joined the Family
Court in June 1999. She is
responsible for assisting the Family Court statewide to administer, direct and
coordinate the development and operation of a pro se litigation assistance
program and to make the Family Court more affordable and more accessible to all
citizens, and serves as staff to Delaware’s Family Court Committee on
Self-Represented Litigants. She is
a member of the Delaware State Bar Association, the Pro Se Litigation Assistance
Committee, the Family Law Section and New Lawyers Section of the Delaware State
Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Widener School of Law
Women’s Network Committee. She
participates in the Low Income Persons Committee and Pro Bono Committee of the
Delaware State Bar Association and the Commission on Family Law.
She came to the Family Court from the Wilmington, Delaware law firm
Connolly, Bove, Lodge & Hutz, LLP where she had a general practice for
nearly three years. She received a
Bachelor of Science degree from
Boston University in 1991 and earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude from Widener
University School of law in 1996.
Stephanie Edelstein, Associate Staff Director – ABA Commission on Legal Problems of the
Elderly
Phone :
202-662-8694 Fax : 202-662-8698
Email : sedelstein@staff.abanet.org
Stephanie Edelstein, J.D., is an Associate
Staff Director with the ABA Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly.
With funding from the Older Americans Act, she provides technical
assistance to attorneys, bar groups and aging network organizations on law and
aging issues, specializing in legal services delivery, housing, (including
reverse mortgages, fair housing and assisted living), and economic security.
She is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association Elder Law Section
Council. Before joining the
Commission staff in 1990, Ms. Edelstein managed a Title IIIB legal services
program in Maryland.
Elliot Eder, General Counsel of Law
Operations - USLAW.com 8555 16th Street, Suite 500,
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: 301-589-8100 ext. 196 Fax: 301-589-8130
Email:
eeder@uslaw.com
Elliot Eder, a former partner at Jones,
Day, Reavis & Pogue, has been named General Counsel of Law Operations at
USLaw.com, a nationwide online affiliate network of legal providers for
consumers and small businesses. One of Mr. Eder’s key responsibilities is the
rollout of USLaw.com’s Affiliate Network, a network of solo practitioners and
small firms across the country who pass a rigorous screening to assure their
focus on top flight, responsive legal services for USLaw.com site visitors.
In addition to Mr. Eder’s career in private practice prior to joining
USLAW.com, he also spent five years with the U.S. Department of Justice
enforcing federal environmental, health and safety laws, and helped launch a
public interest foundation while in law school in Boston.
Russell Engler, Professor and Director of
Clinical Programs - New England
School of Law 46 Church Street, Boston, MA 02116
Phone:
617-422-7380 Fax: 617-422-7385
Email : rengler@fac.nesl.edu
Russell Engler is a Professor of Law and
the Director of Clinical Programs at New England School of Law (NESL).
He directs NESL’s clinical programs, teaches the Lawyering Process and
Advanced Lawyering Process courses, and co-teaches clinical component courses.
During the 1999-2000 academic year, he was also a Lecturer on Law at
Harvard Law School, where he taught the Lawyering Process.
Before joining the NESL faculty in 1993, he was the director of the
Housing Law Unit at Brooklyn (NY) Legal Services, Corporation B.
He clerked for the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the fourth Circuit. He
received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his B.A. from Yale University.
His recent publications are And
Justice for All-Including the Unrepresented Poor:
Revisiting the Roles of the Judges, Mediators and Clerks, 67 Fordham
L. Rev. 1987 (1999), and Out of Sight and
Out of Line: The Need for
Regulation of Lawyers’ Negotiations with Unrepresented Poor Persons, 85
Cal. L. Rev. 79 (1997).
Franklin Garfield 1925 Century Park East, Suite 1250, Los
Angeles, CA 90067
Phone:
310-277-1981 Fax:
310-277-1980 Email:
fgarfield@earthlink.net
Franklin
R. Garfield of Garfield & Tepper, Los Angeles, California, has been in
private practice since 1975. In
1970, Mr. Garfield graduated from the University of California School of Law,
Berkeley, CA. Prior to beginning
his private practice, Mr. Garfield was a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School,
and then served as law clerk to the Hon. Alfonso Zirpoli, United States District
Court for the Northern District of California. During 1972-75, he was an
Associate with Howard, Prim, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady & Pollak in San
Francisco. Since 1975,
Mr. Garfield has been a family lawyer and has served as a mediator and
consulting attorney in numerous mediations.
Phone: 410-837-9379 Fax: 410-385-2616 Email:
sgoldsmith@probonomd.org
Sharon E. Goldsmith, Esq. is the founding
executive director of the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland, Inc. (PBRC), the
statewide pro bono support center. Ms. Goldsmith was
previously a litigation associate with Whiteford, Taylor & Preston in
Baltimore and a judicial law clerk for the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. Ms. Goldsmith served on the Executive Committee of the
National Association of Pro Bono Coordinators (NAPBCO), and was a member and
reporter for the Maryland Judicial Commission on Pro Bono. Ms. Goldsmith is a member of the Oversight Committee for the
Maryland Legal Assistance Network, the Maryland Coalition for Civil Justice
Steering Committee and as a member of the MSBA Section of Delivery of Legal
Services, coordinated a program on discrete task representation for the
Bench/Bar Conference in June.
Julia
Gordon - Center for Law and Social
Policy
Phone:
202-328-5165 Fax:
202-328-5129
Email: jgordon@clasp.org
Julia R. Gordon is Senior Counsel to the Project for the
Future of Equal Justice, a joint project between the Center for Law and Social
Policy and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association that promotes and
supports the creation of state justice communities capable of providing low-
income people with meaningful access to a full range of civil legal assistance.
Ms. Gordon directs the Technology for Justice Initiative of the Project, working
on ways to use new technologies to increase access to legal assistance and legal
information. In addition, she
oversees the Projects web site, the Equal Justice Network (www.equaljustice.org)
and the Hotlines Outcomes Assessment Study. Before coming to CLASP, Ms. Gordon
served as the deputy director of the National Association for Public Interest
Law (NAPIL) and prior to that was a litigation associate at Wilmer, Cutler &
Pickering, where she also managed the firms extensive pro bono program.
Ms. Gordon graduated from Harvard College in 1985 and from Harvard Law
School in 1992, where she spent four semesters and a summer working in various
legal services programs.
Richard S. Granat, Director - President
– My Lawyer. Com, Inc. 207 Redwood Street Baltimore, MD
21202
Phone:
410-484-9833 Fax:
410-484-5433 Email: richard@granat.com
Richard Granat is CEO and Founder of
MyLawyer.com, Inc., an internet-based consumer legal information
company, President of Rapidocs, Inc., and Director of the Center for Law
Practice Technology, Inc., a training and research organization. He is an
authority in the intersecting fields of law firm management, legal services
delivery, and new media/information technology. Richard was the Founder and
Project Director of the People's Law Library of Maryland. Mr. Granat serves as
Chairperson of the American Bar Association's Technology 2000 Task Force -
Lawyers Serving Society Through Technology and was most recently Chair of the
Law Practice Management section of the Maryland State Bar Association. He is a
graduate of Columbia University School of Law (J.D.); the University of
Pennsylvania, (M.S.); and Lehigh University. (B.A.)
John Greacen·, Director -
Administrative Office of the Courts, Supreme Court of New Mexico 237 Don Gaspar, Room 25, Santa Fe, NM
87501
Phone: 505-827-4800 Fax:
505-827-4824 Email:
aocjmg@nmcourts.com
John M. Greacen has been director of the
Administrative Office of the Courts of New Mexico since October 1996.
He has served as clerk of both trial (U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the
District of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico) and appellate courts (U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia) in the federal
court system. He worked for five
years at the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, ultimately as
deputy director for programs. He
also held positions in the U.S. Justice Department, the Police Foundation, and
two different law schools. Mr.
Greacen has an A.B. from Princeton and a J.D. from the University of Arizona.
He received the Director’s Award for Excellence in Leadership from
Ralph Mecham, director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts,
for his leadership in appellate court automation and management.
He is the recipient of the National Association for Court Management
Award of Merit.
Adam Gutride, Vice President, Business
Development – LegalMatch
495 27th Avenue, Suite 9, San
Francisco, CA 94121
Phone:
415-271-6469 Fax: 415-449-3648 Email:
adam@legalmatch.com
Adam
Gutride is the Vice President of Business Development for LegalMatch. He brings
a strong law background to his role in the company. Prior to joining LegalMatch, Mr. Gutride was an intellectual
property and litigation attorney with the law firm of Orrick, Herrington and
Sutcliffe, where he
Gabrielle Hammond - Legal Aid Society of Hawaii P.O. Box 37375, Honolulu, HI 96837-0375
Phone:
808 527-8015 Fax: 808-
527-8088 Email: gabrielle@lashaw.org
Gabrielle Hammond manages the Access to
Justice Programs at Legal Aid Society of Hawaii (LASH). Ms. Hammond came to LASH
five and a half years ago to co-create and manage a statewide, coordinated legal
hotline. Now she runs a statewide brief services program, which includes the
Center for Equal Justice, Courthouse Advocacy & Navigation Programs,
partnerships with the law school, workshops and clinics, and self-help brochures
and court forms.
Dana Harrington, Managing
Attorney/Supervising Attorney – Delaware Volunteer Legal Services P.O. Box 7306, Wilmington, DE 19803
Phone:
302-478-8680 Fax:
302-477-2227 Email:
DanaHC@aol.com
Dana Harrington, Esquire is the Managing
Attorney of Delaware Volunteer Legal Service, the pro bono arm of the Delaware
Bar Association. Ms. Harrington is
also an Adjunct Professor working with the Delaware Civil Clinic of Widener
University School of Law. She
graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1989 and received her Juris
Doctor from Widener University School of Law in 1992.
Ms. Harrington was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1992 and the
Pennsylvania Bar in 1993.
Robert
Hirshon, President Elect - American
Bar Association
Phone:
312-988-5792 Fax: 312-988-5100 Email: rhirshorn@dwmlan.com
Mr. Hirshon, who joined the law firm of Drummond, Woodsum & MacMahon upon
graduation from law school in 1973, is a self-described “baby boomer” who brings the concerns of
smaller law firms, and both small state and small community values to the
ABA’s top office. He will be only
the second ABA president from Maine-the first was Charles F. Libby of Portland,
who served from 1909-1910. He received both his bachelor’s degree with distinction in 1970 and his
Juris Doctor in 1973 from the University of Michigan. In 1973, he was admitted to the Maine Bar; the U.S. District
Court, District of Maine; and four years later to the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the First Circuit. Long active in both Maine State Bar Association and American
Bar Association activities, Hirshon served as president of the MSBA (1986) and
as a member and chair of the association’s Continuing Legal Education
Committee (1974-1985). He also served as president of the Maine Bar Foundation
(1990) and as its director (1985-1991) and as chair of its Bankers’ Advisory
Committee (1986-1989). At the ABA, Mr. Hirshon serves as the chair of the
Standing Committee on Membership (1997-present) and as a member of the House of
Delegates Nominating Committee (1992-present).
He served as chair of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section (1996), as
chair of that section’s International Tort and Insurance Law Practice
Committee (1988) and as vice-chair of its Public Regulation of Insurance Law
Committee (1988-90). Also within
the ABA, Mr. Hirshon served as chair of the Steering Committee for the Center
for Pro Bono (1990-1996); chair of the Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Public
Service Responsibility (1990-1993); and as a member of the Standing Committee on
Bar Activities and Services (1996). In
addition, he served as chair of the ABA Section Officers Conference Fall Meeting
Planning Committee (1995). Mr.
Hirshon has received the Howard Dana Pro Bono Award from the Maine Bar
Foundation and the Reece Smith Special Service Award from the National
Association of Pro Bono Coordinators. In
addition to his activities with the ABA and the MSBA, Hirshon is a member of the
Cumberland Bar Association. He
served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Maine Law School,
where he taught negotiations and trial practice (1988-1993), and served as a
member of the University of Maine Law School’s Committee on Pro Bono
(1993-1995).
The
American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional association in
the world. With more than 400,000
members, the ABA provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education,
information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work,
and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public.
Will Hornsby, Staff Counsel - American Bar
Association – Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services 750 North Lala Shore Drive, Chicago, IL
60611
Phone: 312 988-5761 Fax: 312-988-5483
Email: whornsby@staff.abanet.org
William E. Hornsby, Jr. is staff counsel
in the ABA Division for Legal Services, where he is responsible for the
management of the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services. Prior to
joining the Division for Legal Services in 1990, Will staffed the ABA Committee
on Professionalism. He written and spoken
extensively on alternative methods of delivering legal services, the role of
technology in the practice of law and the application of legal ethics to these
issues.
Alan
Houseman, Executive Director -
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Phone: 202-328-5141 Fax: 202-328-5129 Email:
ahouse@clasp.org
Alan
W. Houseman is Executive Director of the Center for Law and Social Policy
(CLASP) and has held that position since 1982. His current work focuses on
innovative anti-poverty strategies and the long-term future of civil legal
assistance in the United States. Mr.
Houseman has been actively involved in federal and state welfare reform issues
since 1965 and has worked on health care and family policy issues since the
early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1976 he served as General Counsel for
the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and co-chair of the legal committee of
the National Welfare Rights Organization.
He also has a long history of involvement in poverty law advocacy and in
legal services for the poor. Immediately
prior to joining CLASP, Mr. Houseman was a member of the senior staff at the
Legal Services Corporation and director of the Research Institute, which he
founded and developed. He has
written numerous articles, manuals, papers and books on legal services and
poverty law advocacy as well as articles and manuals on welfare policies.
In addition to directing the staff of CLASP, Mr. Houseman is currently
counsel to the National Legal Aid and Defender association (NLADA) and is at the
helm of the national efforts to preserve and strengthen the federal legal
services program. He is on numerous committees of the American Bar Association
and has been Chair of the Civil Committee and a past member of the board and
executive committee of NLADA. Mr.
Houseman is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and has
previously taught at Wayne State University Law School and the University of
Michigan Law School. He is a
graduate of Oberlin College and New York University School of Law, where he was
a Field Fellow in Social Welfare Law (as part of the Hays Civil Liberties
Fellowship Program).
Deborah Howard, Director - Law School
Consortium Project 30
W. 3rd Avenue, Suite 212, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: 718-237-5777 Fax: 718-858-5731
Email: deborahhoward@earthlink.net
Deborah Howard is Director of the Law
School Consortium Project. This project (involving CUNY School of Law,
University of Maryland Law School, and Northeastern University School of Law)
was designed to study and promote models for ways law schools can expand their
educational mission beyond graduation to include support and service to solo and
small-firm lawyers to enable them to help meet the legal needs of low and
moderate income individuals and communities. Ms. Howard’s prior experience
includes serving as Director of Career Services for New York Law School,
Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York Department of Law,
Assistant Attorney General for Alaska’s Office of the Attorney General, law
clerk for a judge on the Alaska Court of Appeals, and working in private
practice in Washington, D.C. Ms. Howard received a masters degree in
organization development from the American University/NTL Program, has studied
human interaction and diversity at the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral
Science, and has been trained in Community Conferencing.
She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her J.D. from
Northeastern University School of Law.
While an undergraduate, she spent one year at Waseda University in Tokyo,
Japan and after practicing law in Alaska, Ms. Howard received a fellowship from
the Japanese Ministry of Education to study law in Japan for a year and a half
at Doshisha University in Kyoto. She
is also a consultant in the areas of diversity, career and organization
development.
Jeffrey Hughes, Founder and Attorney –
Legal Grind, Inc. 2640 Lincoln Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA
90405
Phone: 310-452-8160 Fax: 310-453-1649
Email: president@legalgrind.com
Mr. Hughes received his undergraduate degree in Mass
Communications with a Business Emphasis from UCLA in 1988, and his JD in 1992
from Loyola Law School. He is
licensed to practice law in the states of California and Colorado, and is
certified by the State of California as a Lawyer Referral and Information
Service. He is currently President
and CEO of Legal Grind Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
which runs a peer mediation program
at a local high school in Santa
Monica in addition to other activities. Mr.
Hughes is also Executive Producer of a legally themed television show now in
development.
Peter Jaffee, Senior Vice President and
Chief Legal Office - USLAW.com
8555 16th Street, Suite 500,
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: 301-589-8100 Ext. 153 Fax: 301-589-8130 Email: peter@uslaw.com
As Chief Legal Officer of USLaw.com, Peter
Jaffe is responsible for working with the legal community to develop strategic
services and for advising management on key legal matters. Mr. Jaffe had 10
years of experience in law and government prior to joining USLaw.com last fall.
He began his career in the honors program at the U.S. Department of
Justice. Mr. Jaffe then served as
legal counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he advised the ranking
member of the committee – Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware – and other
senators on constitutional and criminal law issues. Immediately prior to joining
USLaw.com, Mr. Jaffe was of counsel to Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and
Popeo, a national law firm headquartered in Boston.
He has additional experience as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s
Office, Eastern District of Virginia. Mr. Jaffe is a frequent guest on
television and radio as a legal analyst. He graduated cum laude from the
University of Michigan Law School after receiving his undergraduate degree from
Oberlin College.
Phone:
202-994-7484 Fax: 202-994-5157
Mr. Jenkins is currently the Senior
Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs at George Washington University,
having served previously as Assistant Dean for Career Development and Associate
Dean for External Affairs. Dean
Jenkins is currently a member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on the Delivery
of Legal Services and is that committee’s representative on the Ethics 2000
Advisory Council, as well as a member of the ABA House of Delegates.
He is also a member of the bars of the U.S Supreme Court, the Supreme
Court of Virginia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Dean Jenkins received his A.B. degree with honors from Lafayette College,
and received his J.D. degree with honors from the George Washington University
Law School. He also holds an M.A.
degree from American University.
Dean Jenkins served as a Rear Admiral, Judge Advocate General’s Corps,
in the position of Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy, and was also a Naval
Justice School faculty member.
Carolyn Kaas, Professor – Quinnipiac
University School of Law 275 Mt. Carmel Avenue, Hamden, CT
06578
Phone: 203-582-3234 Fax:
203-582-3237 Email: carolyn.kaas@quinnipiac.edu
Ms. Kaas is an Associate Professor of Law
and the Director of Clinical Skills at Quinnipiac University School of Law in
Hamden, Conn. She is also the Director of the Law School's Center on Children
and the Family. Ms. Kaas has been
teaching clinics and externships of various configurations for 11 years, with
her predominant experience in family law. She
also teaches Poverty Law and is the lead professor in the "Introduction to
Representing Clients", a simulation course in interviewing, counseling and
negotiation that serves as a prerequisite to most of Quinnipiac’s clinics and
externships. Her scholarship
interests are mostly in family law.
Judge Judith Kreeger, Circuit Court Judge
- Miami Dade County, Courthouse 175 NW 1st Avenue, Miami, Fl
33013
Phone: 305-349-5729 Fax:
305-349-6177 Email:
jkreeger@jud11.flcourts.org
Judge Judith Kreeger is currently the
Presiding Judge for Dade County Grand Jury in Florida.
From 1974 to1981 she was the Co-founder and Chairperson of The Florida
Bar Media Law Conferences, which were presented annually.
Some of her current assignments include Family Division and a temporary
assignment, from May to July in 1998 for the General Jurisdiction Division.
Judge Kreegar’s teaching experience includes
Faculty Member, Florida Advanced Judicial Studies and presented “The
Use of Technology in Family Courts’ and “Proposed Florida Family Court
Rules.” She is a Member of Family
Court Steering Committee created by the Florida Supreme Court (Chair: Access
Subcommittee).
Judge Kreeger has received special
recognition from the Dade County Psychological Association and has received a
Judicial Merit Award, Family Law Section, from the Florida Bar.
Marc Lauritsen - Capstone Practice
Systems, Inc 193 Bolton Road, Harvard, Massachusetts
01451
Phone: 978-456-3424 Fax:
781-444-1456 Email:
marc@capstonepractice.com
Marc Lauritsen, Vice President for
Practice Technology at AmeriCounsel.com, is a lawyer, educator, and
internationally known specialist in the technology of law. He began his career
as a legal aid attorney, then served as an instructor, director of clinical
programs, executive director of Project PERICLES, and has been working at the
cutting edge of law and technology for over 15 years. Through The Capstone
Group, and as founder of Capstone Practice Systems, Mr. Lauritsen has provided
sophisticated software development and training services to a wide range of
top-tier law firms, legal departments, publishers, government agencies, and
other organizations. He has lectured widely and published over eighty articles
on the uses and implications of information technology in the legal profession.
Mr. Lauritsen serves on the editorial boards of several international journals,
and for many years was chair of the American Bar Association’s document
assembly interest group and moderator of the law office automation forum on
Counsel Connect.
Phone: 925-284-5575 Fax:
925-284-5659 Email:
clyde@icourthouse.com
H. Clyde Long graduated from Duke
University in 1977 with a B.A. in Political Science (Honors).
He also attended Georgetown University Law Center, JD, 1980 and is a
member of the State Bar of California. Mr. Long is the founder and Principal of
Long Law Offices. He has nearly 20
years of civil litigation experience in the areas of business litigation, high
technology, real estate, and alternative dispute resolution.
He is also founder and CEO of iCourthouse (http://www.icourthouse.com), an
Internet-based virtual courthouse that provides dispute resolution and
prevention services through its proprietary jury system.
Judge Edward Lynch – Minnesota District
Court Dakota County Judicial Center, Hastings,
MN 55033
Phone: 651-438-8092 Fax: 651-438-8327 Email: Edward.Lynch@courts.state.mn.us
Judge
Edward Lynch was appointed to District Court on July 1, 1989, and served as
Chief Judge of First Judicial District from July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1997.
He served as a member of the Minnesota Conference of Chief Judges
1993-1997; chair of Minnesota Courts’ Strategic Plan Implementation Committee
July 1997 to June 2000; member Minnesota Courts’ Intercourt Committee June
2000 to present; member Minnesota Courts Public Trust and Confidence Team May
1999 to present; co-chair of Judiciary Subcommittee of Minnesota State Bar
Association’s Pro Se Implementation Committee January 2000 to present; and
member Minnesota Conference of Chief Judges’ Pro Se Issues Committee
1996 and Pro Se Implementation Committee 1997.
Judge Lynch received his BA from the College of St. Thomas, and holds a
JD from the University of Minnesota School of Law.
James McCauley, Ethics Counsel - Virginia
State Bar Eighth and Main Building, 707 East Main
Street, Suite 1500, Richmond, VA 23219-2800
Phone:
804-775-0500 Fax: 804-775-0501 Email: mccauley@vsb.org
James M. McCauley is the Ethics Counsel
for the Virginia State Bar, and serves as staff counsel to the Standing
Committee on Legal Ethics, Standing Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of
Law, and the Standing Committee on Lawyer Advertising and Solicitation.
Mr. McCauley writes the draft opinions for the Ethics and Unauthorized
Practice of Law and Lawyer Advertising Committees and supervises a staff which
provides informal advice over the telephone to members of the bar, bench and
general public on matters involving legal ethics, lawyer advertising and the
unauthorized practice of law. Mr.
McCauley frequently lectures and publishes articles on matters relating to legal
ethics and the unauthorized practice of law. Prior to assuming his duties as
Ethics Counsel, Mr. McCauley was an Assistant Bar Counsel for the Virginia State
Bar for six years, prosecuting cases of attorney misconduct before the District
Committees, Disciplinary Board and Three-Judge Courts.
Before his employment with the Virginia State Bar, Mr. McCauley was in
private practice for seven years. Mr. McCauley graduated cum laude from James Madison University in 1978 with a B.A. in
Political Science. He was awarded
the Edward G. Hudgins Scholarship for Character and Leadership at the T.C.
Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, where he graduated in 1982.
Mr. McCauley wrote for and was a member of the University
of Richmond Law Review.
Mary Helen McNeal, Associate Professor – University of Montana School of
Law
Phone:
406-243-6753 Fax: 406-243-2576 Email: mcneal@selway.um.ed
Clinic
Director and Associate Professor, University of Montana School of Law. Visiting
Assistant Clinical Professor, Boston College School of Law, 1995-1996. Law
School Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Law, 1992-1995.
Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Bureau, Towson, Maryland, 1997-1992. Areas of interest
for teaching and scholarship include clinic, public interest lawyering, poverty
law, ethics and professionalism.
J.D.
University of Maryland School of Law, 1986. A.B., Georgetown University, 1980.
J. Michael McWilliams, President –
McWilliams Dispute Resolution, Inc. 26 South Street, Baltimore, MD 21202-3215
Phone:
410-244-8124 Fax:
410-783-5788
J. Michael McWilliams, former president of
the American Bar Association (1992-93), is president of McWilliams Dispute
Resolution, Inc., headquartered in Baltimore, and is a full-time mediator and
arbitrator of national and international business disputes.
He is a member of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section Council and the CPR
Institute for Dispute Resolution Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, a fellow of
the International Academy of Mediators and the College of Commercial
Arbitrators. Mr. McWilliams is a
frequent writer, speaker, and trainer on alternative dispute resolution for such
organizations as the U.S. Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange
Commission, American Bar Association, and other professional and industry
groups.
Phone:
206-652-3390 Ext. 208
Fax:
250-763-5673
Mr. John Marencik has more than 15 years
of experience in the high tech markets, most recently managing EnviroQuest
Technologies, a provider of statistical leak detection services to the petroleum
industry, from first year revenues of $77,000 to a publicly traded firm with a
market cap of over $80 million. He
will be responsible for the firm’s strategic direction in B2B and B2C markets,
as well as day-to-day operations management.
In the early 90’s his development teams
pioneered a number of advances in client server RDBMS, neural net software and
expert systems, Internet application service provisioning and object oriented
programming technology; working with US firms like Apple, Microsoft, 4th
Dimension, Mobil, Amoco, and VeriFone. Additionally,
Mr. Marencik has provided strategic consulting in the areas of customer facing
technology, software design and web-enabled applications to several Fortune 500
firms, including Ford and Allied Signal Aerospace.
Mr. Marencik’s educational background includes undergraduate work and
early graduate studies conducted at the University of Missouri in Kansas City
and an MBA from Rockhurst University’s Executive Fellows Program.
Michael
Millemann, Professor of Law – University of Maryland School of Law
515 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD
21201
Phone: 410-706-8340
Fax: 410-706-5856 Email:
mmillem@law.umaryland.edu
Professor Michael Millemann graduated from
Georgetown Law Center in 1969, and has practiced and taught at the University of
Maryland School of Law since 1974. He
is a Professor of the Law in the School’s Clinical Law Program and the Jacob
A. France Professor of Public Interest Law.
In the Clinical Law Program, Professor Millemann and his students have
experimented with the provision of limited legal services to pro se litigants in
domestic cases and have evaluated this experiment. [See Limited-Service
Representation and Access to Justice: An Experiment, 11Am. J. of Fam. Law 1-11
(1997) and Rethinking the Full-Service Legal Representational Model: A Maryland
Experiment, Vol 30, No. 11-12 Clearinghouse Rev.
(1997). ]
Wayne Moore, Director -
AARP Legal Advocacy Group/ AARP Foundation 601 E. St., NW, Washington, DC 20049
Phone:
202 434-2149 Fax:
202-434-6593 Email: wmoore@aarp.org
Wayne Moore oversees three programs at
AARP Foundation. As Co-Administrator of the Foundation, Wayne directs grant
solicitation and implementation efforts for foundation and government grants
that advance AARP’s strategic plan. He
supervises more than 80 employees, and manages a budget of over $8 million.
As Group Leader of the AARP Legal Advocacy Group, Mr. Moore manages a
14-attorney litigation unit that conducts impact litigation, directs a support
project for legal Hotlines, and directs a nationwide training project to help
people advocate for seniors. He
established and maintains the AARP discount legal services program for members.
As Executive Director of Legal Counsel for the Elderly
(LCE) since 1977, he has
helped pioneer new methods for using volunteer lawyers to represent people with
low incomes. He also established
one of the first pro bono lawyer programs in the nation and helped disseminate
the model with the result more than 500 such programs exist today.
His work on regional training programs helped make possible the rapid
expansion of pro bono programs in the early 1980s.
Mr. Moore helped establish the ABA’s annual Pro Bono Conference,
created a Home Study Paralegal Certificate Program, and founded the country’s
first free Legal Hotline -- an effort that has since been adopted by nearly 125
legal services programs.
Judge Elaine Moriarty 24 New Chardon Street, Boston, MA
02114
Phone: 617-788-8293
Fax: 617-788-8758
Email: moriarty_e@jud.state.ma.us
Judge Elaine Moriary has been the
Associate Justice of the Suffolk Probate in Boston, Massachusetts since
September 1989 to the present. She
was a team leader for the Massachusetts State Team Delegation to the National
Conference on Pro Se Litigation,
Scottsdale, Arizona in November 1999. From
1997 to1999, Judge Moriarty was the Chair for the Probate and Family Probate Pro
Se Committee. Judge Moriarty
has authored numerous articles including Guardianships
of Mentally Ill Persons: Recent Developments Reviewed, Boston Bar Journal
February, 1980 and No Fault Divorce
Affidavits, Boston Bar Journal May, 1979.
Woody
Mosten -
Mosten & Barbakoff, LLP
Phone:
310-473-7611 Ext. 121
Fax: 310-470-2625
Email:
mosten@mediate.com
Known
as the “Father of Unbundling,” Forrest (Woody) Mosten is the originator of
this consumer-oriented method of delivering legal services.
Since 1993, Mr. Mosten has written the key articles in the field,
presented and trained lawyers in the practice of unbundling throughout the
world, and been a consultant on legal access reform for courts, bar
associations, and other organizations in many jurisdictions.
An original partner in Jacoby and Meyers, the first private legal clinic
in 1972, Forrest Mosten has continually been at the cutting edge of mediation
and legal services delivery. Mr.
Mosten is a
former member of the American Bar Association’s IOLTA Commission, Standing
Committee on Delivery of Legal Services, and its Section of Law Practice
Management’s Task Forces on Mediation and Preventive Law.
His books include, Unbundling Legal Services, (ABA 2000), The Complete
Guide to Mediation (ABA 1997), and Operating a Profitable Mediation Practice
(1999). Mr. Mosten lives and
practices in Los Angeles where he specializes in high conflict mediations,
coaching clients in a limited scope basis, and is the Founder of Mosten
Mediation Centers with offices throughout the United States.
Alizabeth
Newman, Director
- Immigrant Initiatives, CUNY
School of Law
Phone: 516-340-4438 Fax: 516-340-4478 Email:
Newman@mail.law.CUNY.edu
Alizabeth
Newman is Director of Immigrant Initiatives at CUNY School of Law, where she
received her J.D. She has worked
for more than a decade advocating for the rights of immigrants and has been
active in educating the legal and immigrant communities about special
protections for battered immigrant women. Ms.
Newman founded and directed SEPA Mujer, (Services for the Advancement of Women),
a community-based organization offering legal rights education for Latina
immigrant women and legal representation for those who are battered. She developed CLE pro bono training programs on the Violence
Against Women Act for local attorneys and law students from CUNY, Hofstra, Touro
and schools of law. Ms. Newman has
lectured extensively at bar associations, law schools, national and local
conferences, and community organizations, in English and Spanish, on the
provisions of the Violence Against Women Act for immigrant women. Ms. Newman has been a supervising attorney at CUNY School of
Law’s Immigration and Refugee Rights Clinic.
Previously, Ms. Newman trained and managed a pro bono panel of 250
attorneys in political asylum work through the Central American Refugee Center.
She has also served on the board of directors for several community
organizations.
Nathaniel
C. Nichols, Associate Professor of Law – Widener University School of Law
Phone: 302-477-2269 Fax: 302-477-2227 Email:
Nathaniel.C.Nichols@law.widener.edu
Nathaniel
C. Nichols is an Associate Professor of Law at Widener University School of Law
(Delaware Campus). He received his
B.A. from Howard University and his J.D. from Columbia University.
He is the Clinical Director for the Delaware Campus. He directs the
Pennsylvania Civil Law Clinic that represents indigent clients in bankruptcy and
family law cases. He also teaches Creditors' Rights and Consumer Bankruptcy.
Phone : 203-946-4811 Email : snofi-bendici@nhlegal.org
Susan
Nofi-Bendici has been a Staff Attorney with New Haven Legal Assistance
Association in New Haven, Connecticut, for almost five years.
She represents individual clients primarily in housing matters, as well
as providing legal advice and representation to community groups and conducting
community outreach. In addition to her work at NHLAA, she works as a consultant
with the Legal Assistance Resource Center of Connecticut developing pro se legal
rights pamphlets, and supervises students in the Quinnipiac University School of
Law clinical program that will be described by the panel.
Prior to joining the NHLAA staff, Ms. Nofi-Bendici specialized in
immigration law, working at the International Institute of Connecticut,
Prisoners Legal Services of New York and in private practice.
She has also represented asylum applicants pro bono through ProBAR, a
volunteer project of the ABA, the State Bar of Texas, and the American
Immigration Lawyers Association.
Barbara Oro, Clinical Professor – B.A.
Emmanuel College J.D. Northeastern University School of
Law, NESL Clinic Office, 46 Church Street, Boston, MA
02116
Phone:
617-422-7380 Fax: 617-422-7385
Email: boro@nesl.edu
Professor Oro teaches trial advocacy
skills and supervises students in the Clinical Law Office, as well as teaching
Family Law. Before joining the New England faculty in 1990, she engaged in general
practice and worked as a Suffolk County Bar Advocate, representing indigent
defendants.
Pamela Ortiz, Executive Director - Family
Services Program of the Administrative Office of the Courts 580 Taylor Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21113
Phone: 410-260-1258
Fax: 410-260-2066 Email: Pamela.Ortiz@court.state.md.us
Pamela Cardullo Ortiz is the Executive
Director of the Family Services Program of the Administrative Office of the
Courts. She has administrative and
budgetary responsibility for Maryland’s Circuit Courts Family Divisions and
Family Services Programs. She works
with the Maryland Judiciary to develop policies and initiatives to improve the
management of domestic and juvenile cases, and to improve the courts ability to
serve the needs of the families and children who come before it.
She served as the Family Law Administrator at the Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County from 1996 to 1999. She
had a public interest law practice in domestic and juvenile cases prior to 1996,
serving first with the Legal Aid Bureau, and later as the managing attorney for
the Anne Arundel Bar Foundation Pro Bono Program.
She has been a member of the Maryland Bar since 1992 and holds a law
degree from Georgetown University.
Michele Lang Palter, Staff Attorney – New Haven Legal Assistance Association
426 State Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Phone:
203-946-4811 Fax:
203-498-9271 Email: mpalter@nhlegal.org
Michele Lang Palter is a staff attorney at
New Haven Legal Assistance Association, where she directs Project Dandelion, a
program dedicated to helping low income people achieve self-sufficiency through
legal information and community support. Ms.
Palter began her legal career as a Skadden Fellow, helping to start Project
Dandelion at Neighborhood Legal Services in Buffalo, NY in 1992.
She serves as an adjunct professor at Quinnipiac Law School, where she
has taught client representation and helped to supervise clinical externship
programs. She also practiced as a
plaintiff-side employment lawyer at Garrison, Phelan in New Haven, CT.
Ms. Palter graduated with honors from Harvard Law School in 1992 and
served on the board of the Harvard Battered Women’s Advocacy Project. She served as a book review editor for the Harvard Women’s Law Journal.
Louise Phipps-Senft - Baltimore Mediation
Center 4502 Schenley Road, Baltimore, MD 21210
Phone:
410-235-9656 Fax : 410-235-5487
Email: mediate@erols.com
Ms. Phipps-Senft, founded the Baltimore
Mediation Center in 1993 to provide mediation, facilitation, collaborative
problem solving, and training to individuals, professionals, court systems,
families, businesses, agencies, and civic organizations. She is a member of the
Maryland Commission on Dispute Resolution, chair of the Commission’s Family
ADR Network, and past Co-Chair of the Baltimore City Bar Association’s
Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission.
An adjunct professor at University of Maryland Law School on ADR, she is
co-creator, lead trainer and supervisor for the Baltimore City Circuit Court
Family Mediation Services program and is a member of the mediation training team
for the U.S. Postal Services program to resolve EEO/discrimination and other
workplace disputes. Prior to 1993,
Ms. Senft practiced insurance and family law at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Robert
J. Rhudy, Executive Director - Maryland
Legal Services Corporation
Phone:
410-576-9494 Fax: 410-385-1831 Email: rhudy@mlsc.org
Mr.
Rhudy is Executive Director of Maryland Legal Services Corporation.
He is chair of the State Office Committee for the Maryland Commission on
Alternative Dispute Resolution, past chair of the Commission’s Community
Issues Committee, and on the Board of Directors of the Society of Professionals
in Dispute Resolution (Maryland Chapter). He
is past chair of the National Association of IOLTA Programs, Maryland
Association of Nonprofit Organizations, Maryland State Bar Association’s Legal
Services to Indigents Committee and Unbundled Legal Services Committee, and Iowa
Civil Liberties Union. A
graduate of University of Iowa Law School, Mr. Rhudy has been a lecturer in
public policy and poverty law at University of Iowa and University of Maryland.
Neil Ruther, Esq., Managing Director – Legal Advice
Line
Phone:
435-6064
Fax: 410-323-0841 Email: njruther@aol.com
Mr. Ruther holds a BA in political science
from the American University and a JD from the University of Baltimore School of
Law. Admitted to practice in Maryland in 1976 he served as an Assistant
State’s Attorney for Baltimore City
as a trial attorney and supervisor in the Major Frauds and High Impact
Violent Crimes Units of that office. He was a partner in the litigation section
of Melnicove, Kaufman ,Weiner & Smouse and Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver
in Baltimore, and has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of
Baltimore. Mr. Ruther also
co-authored the book “Solomon’s Sword” (Jossey Bass), a guide to child
custody litigation. Mr. Ruther has
also been a lecturer on legal ethics for a major national bar review course.
In 1997 he co- founded the Legal Advice Line, a supplier of technology
based unbundled legal services. The business now serves clients in 25 states. (www.legaladviceline.com)
He is currently managing director of Legal Advice Line.
Kate Sampson, Senior Program Associate – American
Judicature Society
Phone:
312-558-6900 Ext. 131 Fax: 312-558-9175 Email:
ksampson@ajs.org
Ms. Sampson is Senior Program Associate at
the American Judicature Society (AJS) in Chicago.
Her primary responsibilities are proposal writing and directing funded
projects. She was project director
for the November 1999 National Conference on Pro Se Litigation, and before that
directed the final stage of the project that produced Meeting the Challenge
of Pro Se Litigation: A Guidebook
for Judges and Court Managers. She
also manages the pro se forum on the AJS home page (www.ajs.org)
and has set up an e-mail listserv for members of state teams who attended
the 1999 national conference. (All
these projects were funded by the State Justice Institute, with supplemental
support from the Open Society Institute for the national conference.)
She also will direct newly funded SJI project that will examine the
effectiveness of pro se assistance programs in rural jurisdictions.
In other arenas, Ms. Sampson has served as the staff specialist on
judicial selection issues, directed the National Symposium on Sentencing in
October 1997, overseen a project evaluating judicial performance evaluation
programs in four states, produced a customer-service curriculum for court staff,
and organized a colloquium for Illinois juvenile court judges who hear child
abuse, neglect and dependency cases.
Alex
Scherr, Assistant Professor and Director of Civil Clinics – University of
Georgia School of Law Herty
Drive, Athens, GA 30602
Phone:
706-542-6510 Fax:
706-542-5556
Email: scherr@uga.edu
Alex
Scherr is an assistant professor and the Director of Civil Clinics at the
University of Georgia School of Law. He
is responsible for all civil law clinical programs at the law school, including
a Family Violence Clinic, an externship program, and the Public Interest
Practicum, the program he will discuss as a co-presenter.
He teaches both the Practicum and the externship program, as well as
Evidence, Dispute Resolution and Negotiation.
Before law teaching, Alex worked for Vermont Legal Aid, for seven years
as a staff attorney in a general poverty law practice, and for 5 years as a
project director and as director of the Mental Health Law Project.
Alex also worked as a mediator and mediation trainer, and trained
paralegals at Woodbury College in Vermont.
His scholarship focuses on practical judgment in lawyering, and on
evidence and mental health law.
Calvin
L. Scott Jr., Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
820
N. French St, 6th Floor, Wilmington, DE
19801
Phone: 302-577-8400 Fax: 302-577-6630 Email: cscott@state.de.us
Calvin
Scott is currently a Deputy Attorney General in the Civil Division of the State
of Delaware Department of Justice. He
received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Industrial Engineering and
Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, and earned a Juris
Doctor (J.D.) and a Master of Laws (L.L.M.) in Corporate Law and Finance from
the Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, DE.
Mr. Scott serves as the Treasurer of the Delaware State Bar Association,
on the Board of the Delaware Bar Foundation, on the Family Court’s Committee
on Self Represented Litigants Before the Court and as Chair of the Pro Se
Litigation Assistance Committee. He
also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Independence School and on the Board
of the Diamond Gymnastics Athletic Association.
Mr. Scott is admitted to practice in Delaware, the District of Columbia,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. District Courts of
Delaware, Maryland, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, the
Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Phone:
203-838-4050
Fax: 203-866-3300 Email: gmbabette@aol.com
Lynda C. Shely
Phone: 602-340-7284 Fax:
602-271-4930 Email: Lynda.shely@staff.azbar.org
Lynda
C. Shely is the Director of Lawyer Ethics for the State Bar of Arizona.
Her work with the Bar includes providing ethics advice to members of the
Bar, supervising the Client Protection Fund, Fee Arbitration and Peer Review
programs, handling unauthorized practice of law (UPL) complaints and serving on
the Bar’s Task Force on the Future of the Profession.
Ms. Shely is the Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Client
Protection, and is a Vice-President of the National Client Protection
Organization. She is
a frequent speaker, nationally, on ethics and unauthorized practice of
law programs. Prior to her current
position, Ms. Shely was an associate with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, in
Washington, D.C. Ms. Shely
graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with a
BA degree in government, and from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law
with a JD degree (with highest honors). She
is a member of the American Bar Association and the Arizona, Pennsylvania and
Washington, D.C. Bars.
Greg Siskind
Phone: 901-737-3194
Fax: 630-604-9306 Email:
gsiskind@visalaw.org
Greg
Siskind practices immigration law in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of the
American Bar Association's best selling book THE LAWYERS GUIDE TO THE INTERNET.
In June 1994, Mr. Siskind created one of the first law firm web sites and his
web site has remained one of the most popular law firm web sites ever since. His
e-mail newsletter is also one of the most widely read immigration publications
in the world with nearly 30,000 subscribers in all 50 states and 145 countries.
Largely because of the success of the web site, he has built his firm from a
solo practice to one of the nation's largest immigration law firms.
Ron
Supancic, Attorney and Counselor at Law – The Law Office of Ronald M. Supancic
Phone:
818-348-6700 Fax:
818-348-0961 Email: ronslaw@yahoo.com
Ron Supancic received his BA from the University of
California, Los Angeles, and received his law degree from the University of
Southern California. He has spent
nearly three decades practicing in the area of family law.
In 1980, he was among the first group of lawyers to be certified by the
California Bar Association as a Family Law Specialist.
He has been a mediator with the L.A. County Superior Court since 1976.
Mr. Supancic is a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers,
The National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys, The American Bar Association,
The Christian Legal Society, and the Association of Certified Family Law
Specialists. He is an arbitrator
for the American Arbitration Association, and the L.A. County Superior Court.
He also has been an Associate Professor at Azusa Pacific University in
the School of Marriage, Family and Child Counseling where he taught Law and
Ethics, and an adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Author of three books, When All Else Fails: The Real Cost of Ending a
Marriage, Winning the Custody War Without Casualties and California Family Law:
A Layman’s Guide, Mr. Supancic offers his clients alternatives to traditional
litigation.
Sue
Talia
Phone: 925-838-2660 Fax: 925-743-1614 Email: sue@divorcefromhell.com
Ms.
Talia has been a practicing family lawyer for twenty years, and is a Certified
Family Law Specialist in the State of California.
Ms. Talia is an advocate and lobbyist for reform of the family law
system, and no longer represents clients in adversarial family law proceedings.
Her practice currently consists of advising and coaching clients,
“unbundling” services as appropriate, and representing clients in
non-adversarial proceedings. Ms.
Talia is the author of “A Client’s Guide to Limited Legal Services,” as
well as a book on divorce poetry and numerous articles on discrete task
representation and system reform. She also currently
hosts a talk show on WALE radio in Providence, RI, which provides a forum for in
depth discussion of law reform and other family law matters.
Paul
Tremblay, Clinical Professor of Law – Boston College Law School
Phone:
617-552-0256 Fax: 781-893-4799
Email: tremblay@bc.edu
Paul
Tremblay is a Clinical Professor of Law at Boston College Law School.
A member of the faculty since 1982, he teaches lawyering practice in a
clinical setting at the Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau and teaches a
course on lawyers' ethics. Mr.
Tremblay is a 1973 graduate, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, of Boston
College, and a 1978 graduate of UCLA School of Law, where he received
appointment to the Order of the Coif. Prior
to his joining the faculty at Boston College Law School he was a Senior Attorney
at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and an instructor at UCLA School of
Law.
Phone: 510-704-2239 Fax: 800-645-0895 Email: jake@nolo.com
Jake
Warner co-founded Nolo in 1971, America’s pioneer publisher of quality
self-help law materials. Drawing on
his experience as Deputy Director of Contra Costa Legal Services, a San
Francisco Bay Area legal aid organization, Warner dedicated Nolo to making legal
information more affordable and accessible to all.
He was publisher and president of Nolo until 1993, at which time he
focused his attentions on creating and expanding Nolo’s online vision.
Today, as chairman of Nolo, Warner continues to focus his energies on
Nolo’s website, believing that it is a near perfect medium to carry out and
expand Nolo’s original mission to make plain-English legal information
accessible to all. The website is
widely recognized as a
comprehensive, effective and popular self-help law Internet site.
Mr. Warner has also authored or co-authored a number of Nolo
publications, including the legal manual for WillMaker software, Living
Together: A Legal Guide for Unmarried Couples, and Get a Life: You Don’t Need
a Million to Retire Well. He holds a law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the
University of