Bellow-Sacks Access to Civil Legal Services Project

Michael Genz | John Graecan | Michael Hertz | Don Horowitz | Bonnie Hough

Justice Earl Johnson, Jr. | Marc Lauritsen | John McKay | Wayne Moore | Richard Moorhead

Alan Paterson | Dahlia Remlar | Dean Rivkin | Ada Shen-Jaffe | Gerry Singsen

Louise Trubek | Randy Youells | Sophie Bryan | David Grossman | Maureen E. McDonagh

Cynthia Monteiro | Alexander Rabb | Victoria Read

Kenneth Bresler - Seminar Reporter; Owner, Clearwriting.net

Kenneth Bresler gained most of his legal experience as a state and local prosecutor in the United States. He spent the summer of 1997 in The Hague, Netherlands, working with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He teaches various courses as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts in its Criminal Justice Master's Program.
Mr. Brelser has worked as a legislative aide in the U.S. Congress and the Massachusetts legislature, where he wrote the Commonwealth's first legislative drafting manual. He has extensive writing experience, including Kissing Legalese Goodbye, a book published in 2001, and owns a writing business specializing in plain English located at www.clearwriting.net. He completed his undergraduate work at Tufts University in 1979 and received his J.D. from Harvard law School in 1984.

Frank Broccolina - State Court Administrator for Maryland

Frank Broccolina has over 25 years of judicial administration experience and is currently the State Court Administrator for Maryland. Prior to his appointment, he was the Court Administrator for the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts and the immediate past President of the National Association for Court Management. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Court Management, as well as senior faculty to the Institute and serves on its Advisory Board. Mr. Broccolina received his undergraduate degree from Loyola College in 1969 and M.A. from American University in 1975.

Honorable Cynthia J. Cohen - Massachusetts Appeals Court

Cynthia J. Cohen was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court on March 8, 2001. She was recently appointed chair of the newly formed Supreme Judicial Court Steering Committee on Self-Represented Litigants. She is also a member of the Appellate Court Information Technology Committee, where she chairs a sub-committee on electronic filing. Before going on the bench, Justice Cohen was a principal of the Boston law firm of Meehan, Boyle & Cohen, P.C. (now known as Meehan, Boyle, Black & Fitzgerald), where her civil litigation practice emphasized tort, insurance, and appellate matters. She served a four-year term on the Board of Overseers, which she chaired in 1998, and was active in the Massachusetts Bar Association, where she served as Secretary, Vice President, and Treasurer. Justice Cohen currently remains involved in bar concerns as a Trustee and Oliver Wendell Holmes Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation. She is on the adjunct faculty of Suffolk University Law School, where she has taught appellate practice. Justice Cohen received her undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1969, M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1972, and J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1975. Upon her graduation from law school, she joined the Boston law firm of Parker, Coulter, Daley & White where she was employed first as an associate and later as a partner, until co-founding Meehan, Boyle & Cohen, P.C. in 1985.

Ab Curie - Principal Researcher, Department of Justice, Ottawa, Canada
Ab Curie is Principal Researcher for the Access to Justice in the Research and Statistics Division of the Department of Justice, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Toronto, and has taught sociology at several Canadian universities. He has been conducting research on legal aid and on other aspects of access to justice for more than fifteen years.

William B. Fairley - President, Analysis and Inference, Inc.

Will Fairley is a statistician who has co-authored an article, A Bayesian Approach to Identification of Evidence, on statistics and evidence in the Harvard Law Review with lawyer, Michael Finkelstein. He also co-taught one of the first law school courses on statistics. While working with Insurance Commissioner James Stone in Massachusetts, he wrote a leading article in the Bell Journal of Economics on required rates of return in regulated property-casualty insurance. He co-edited a book, Statistics and Public Policy, with Frederick Mosteller. Clients of his firm, Analysis and Inference, Inc., have included: numerous state governments seeking information on error rates and quality control in welfare, food stamp, and Medicaid; the National Association of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws for information on lump sum settlements; the Senate Judiciary Committee on measuring business concentration; several state Attorney Generals and city counsels offices on education funding, racial profiling, and agency performance; and numerous corporations and agencies on discrimination, damages, and the safety of nuclear power plants, coal mining shuttle cars, automobiles, lead paint, and medical devices, assessment of amounts of fraud and theft in contracting and public transit and parking operations, and assessment of insurance claims. In the course of his consulting, he has published over forty articles in professional journals, including ones on federal estimates of error rates and disallowances in quality control of state-administered entitlement programs. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1960 and received his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University in 1968.

Victor Fortuno - Office of Corporate Counsel and Vice President for Legal Affairs, Legal Service Corporation

Victor Fortuno was appointed General Counsel of Legal Services Corporation (LSC) in 1991 and has since been appointed to the offices of Corporate Secretary and Vice President for Legal Affairs. He spent his first year after law school as a staff attorney with Community Legal Services in Philadelphia and then served for five years as an Assistant District Attorney for the City and County of Philadelphia. His work in the District Attorney's Office included assignments to its Trial and Appellate Divisions and its Organized Crime Unit. In August 1983, he joined LSC as an attorney in its Office of Compliance and Review. During his LSC tenure, he has served as Acting Director of Compliance and Review, Assistant General Counsel, Senior Litigation Counsel, and Deputy General Counsel. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Health Plan and the Board of Directors of the Columbia College Alumni Association. He is married to the former Vicki Ann Clark and has five children. His family is from Puerto Rico, but he was born and raised in the heart of New York City. He received his B.A. in economics from Columbia University in 1974 and J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1977.

Michael Genz - Director, Office of Program Performance, Legal Services Corporation

Michael Genz is responsible for all aspects of support to the LSC field programs that actually deliver service to needy clients. This includes a major technology initiative that seeks to promote innovation and assure maximum benefit from uses of technology in the delivering of both high-volume and high- quality legal services to low- income Americans. More information is available at www.lsc.gov.

John Graecan - Principal, Greacen Associates, LLC, Consultant Services

John Greacen was director of the Administrative Office of the Courts of New Mexico from October 1996 to July 2001, and was clerk of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Mexico in Albuquerque, a court of limited jurisdiction with two judges and a staff of 28, from 1992 - 1996. Before his appointment as clerk in 1992, he served for eight years as clerk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia - an intermediate federal appellate court with 15 judges and 50 staff. Mr. Greacen worked for five years at the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, VA ultimately as deputy director for programs. He has 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, and the 1999 Award of Merit from the National Association for Court Management for accomplishments during his career. Mr. Greacen is currently serving as a Process Improvement Attorney for the New Mexico AOC and will soon begin a court administration consultant practice. Mr. Greacen has an A.B. from Princeton and J.D. from the University of Arizona.

Michael Hertz - Founder and Director of Probono.net

Michael Hertz is the driving force behind Probono.net which he began developing in 1998. He is presently on indefinite leave of absence from his firm, Latham & Watkins, in order to devote full time to the probono.net project. Probono.net is the leading on-line community of pro bono attorneys. Probono.net offers information, resources, support and an opportunity for exchange among private attorneys doing pro bono legal work. Probono.net is also constructing LawHelp, a portal (on-line source or gateway) that will compile, (1) legal and technical resources and information needed by pro bono and other attorneys in order to provide high quality service to low income clients, and (2) self-help legal information for the client community. More information is available at www.probono.net. He received his B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University in 1982, M.A. from University of Chicago in 1984, and J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1988.