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

Don Horowitz - Director of the Horowitz Foundation

Donald J. Horowitz is currently President of The Horowitz Foundation, a family foundation established in early 2000 with a mission to fund technology and other innovations that will expand the availability of legal services. He has been active in the justice and legal systems for over forty years, and remains fully involved in efforts to improve the quality and delivery of justice. He was appointed Chair of the Technology Bill of Rights Committee of the Access to Justice Board of the Washington State Bar Association. That committee is charged with the mission of creating a technology bill of rights for access to the justice system to assure that new and developing technologies serve as a pathway rather than as a barrier to such access for all persons, and at the same time determining and planning for the societal impact of the adoption and enforcement of such a bill of rights.
Mr. Horowitz is a former Superior Court Judge in the State of Washington and over the last fifteen years has served extensively as a mediator and arbitrator who was called upon to help resolve many different kinds of disputes. Mr. Horowitz received his B.A. from Columbia University and L.L.B. from Yale Law School.

Bonnie Hough - Supervising Attorney, Center for Families, Children and the Courts (AOC)

Bonnie Hough has been a Supervising Attorney with the Administrative Office of the Court's Center for Families, Children & the Courts (AOC) in California since 1997. The focus of her work is on helping courts meet the needs of self-represented litigants. Prior to joining AOC, she was a private family law practitioner. She is a founder of the Family Law Center, a nonprofit legal services organization in Marin County that assists pro se litigants with family law matters, and served as its executive director for six years. Currently, she serves on the State Bar's Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, and in the past has served on the board of the Marin County Law Library, Marin Women Lawyers, and numerous other committees. As staff to the Judicial Council's Task Force on Self-Represented Litigants, she serves as a liaison to the California Access to Justice Commission and the California Legal Services Coordinating Council and oversees seven grant programs providing funding to self-help programs in the courts. In this position she also coordinates the legal review and translation of the California courts self-help website, drafts Judicial Council rules and forms relating to self-represented litigants in family law, makes presentations on issues such as unbundling of legal services and the role of court staff in providing legal information, and encourages consideration of issues of self-represented litigants throughout the court system. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1983, M.P.A. from San Francisco State University in 1985, and J.D. from Hastings College of the Law in 1987.

Justice Earl Johnson, Jr. - Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District of California

Justice Earl Johnson, Jr. was one of the pioneer poverty lawyers in the United States, serving as deputy director of one of four pilot neighborhood law office programs the Ford Foundation funded in 1963-64. When the U.S. government declared its "War on Poverty," he was chosen to be the first deputy director and eight months later the second director of the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) Legal Services Program. In 1969 he became a professor of law at the University of Southern California where he also directed an interdisciplinary program on dispute resolution policy. At various times from 1973 to 1979 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Florence and the European University Institute where he co-directed, with Mauro Cappelletti, the Access to Justice project. In 1982, he was appointed to the California Court of Appeal where he still serves. He has written extensively on legal aid and related issues including books such as Justice and Reform: The Formative Years of the American Legal Services Program, and Toward Equal Justice: A Comparative Study of Legal Aid in Modern Societies (with Cappelletti and James Gordley), and a dozen articles. He also was the founding president of the National Equal Justice Library (NEJL) located at American University and remains an active member of the Library's executive committee, including chairing its International Collections Committee. His most recent publications in the legal aid field are Justice and Reform: A Quarter Century Later, Chapter 1 of Regan, Paterson, Goriely & Fleming, The Transformation of Legal Aid: Comparative and Historical Studies (1999); Equal Access to Justice: Comparing Equal Access to Justice in the United States and Other Industrial Democracies, in Fordham International Law Journal, and the Access to Justice article in Elsevier's forthcoming International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001). He received his B.A. from Northwestern in 1955, J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1960, and L.L.M. from Northwestern in 1961.

Marc Lauritsen - President Capstone Group. Former Vice President, Americounsel.com

Marc Lauritsen is well known at HLS, as an alum who chose legal services practice, returning to HLS as a clinical supervisor, director of clinical programs, director of project PERICLES (involving applications of technology to clinical teaching and law practice) and senior research associate in technology. He 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. During the past year he served as vice president for practice technology at AmeriCounsel.com.

John McKay - President of the Legal Services Corporation

In 1997, John McKay took over leadership of the U.S.'s publicly funded legal services efforts in the Clinton Administration and continues in the Bush administration. His tenure as LSC President has been characterized by a bipartisan approach to working with Congress, driven by his deeply held commitment to the principle of equal justice. During his tenure as its president, LSC has maintained its bipartisan support in Congress, despite threats to eliminate the Corporation. Mr. McKay has logged thousands of miles visiting legal services programs around the country, encouraging programs to improve the delivery of services to clients by becoming more efficient and technologically proficient. He also has urged local and state bar associations to recruit volunteer attorneys to help meet the overwhelming need for civil legal aid to the poor.
Mr. McKay also has taken on leadership responsibilities with both the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA). He was a member of the ABA Board of Governors and House of Delegates, as well as the WSBA's task forces on Opportunities for Minorities in the Legal Profession and on Governance. From 1988 to 1989, he was president of the Washington State Young Lawyers Division, and in 1995, the WSBA named Mr. McKay Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year. He also served as the state chairman of the Equal Justice Coalition from 1995 to 1996.
He received his a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washing in 1978 and a J.D. from Creighton University in 1982. Mr. McKay
began his tenure as United States Attorney for Western Washington in October 2001.

Wayne Moore - Director, AARP Legal Services Program, and President of the Prepaid Legal Services Institute

Wayne Moore oversees three programs affiliated with AARP. As Co-Administrator of the AARP Foundation, Mr. Moore 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 senior. He also established and supervises a project that produces law-related information for use by AARP's Legal Services Network, a program that provides free and reduced-cost legal services to AARP members. As Executive Director of Legal Counsel for the Elderly (LCE) since 1977, Mr. Moore established one of the first pro bono lawyer programs in the nation and helped disseminate the model with the result that more than 1000 such programs exist today. He helped establish the ABA's annual Pro Bono Conference, created a Home StudyParalegal Certificate Program, and founded the country's first free Legal Hotline -- an effort that has since been adopted by nearly 150 legal services programs.
Mr. Moore co-founded the annual National Law and Aging Conference and he is president of the American Prepaid Institute. Publishing an extensive body of work, he has been a featured presenter at numerous conferences and the recipient of numerous and prestigious awards. Mr. Moore holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School, where he an M.S. in engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and a B.S. from UCLA in engineering. More information is available at www.aarp.org.

Richard Moorhead - Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Cardiff Law School

Richard Moorhead is a Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff Law School and qualified solicitor. He conducted the initial research on Community Legal Service (CLS) partnerships, which is published in Pioneers in Practice: The Community Legal Service Pioneer Partnership Research Project (LCD, London, 2000). His more recent work was for the Department for Transport Local Government and the Regions (DTLR), published in Beacon Council Research - Round 3 Theme Report: Community Legal Services (London:DTLR, 2001), and a major assessment of the quality of work under contracting for the Legal Services Commission, entitled Quality and Cost, co-authored with Sherr, Paterson, and others. Current and recent research projects include: The advice needs of lone parents, with NCOPF for the Nuffield Foundation; Access and Signposting under the CLS, for the Legal Services Commission; Understanding unrepresented litigants and their impact on the civil justice system, for the Lord Chancellor's Department; Quality and Access: the role of tolerance work in legal aid contracts, for the Legal Services Commission; and Research into the Salaried Defender Scheme in England and Wales, with Bridges, Sherr, and Cape for the Legal Services Commission. His recent publications include: More Civil Justice? The impact of the Woolf reforms on pre-action behaviour (Law Society and Civil Justice Council, London, 2001) (with Goriely and Abrams) for the Law Society and Civil Justice Council; Quality and Cost: Final Report on the Contracting of Civil, Non-Family Advice and Assistance Pilot (Stationery Office, Norwich, 2001) (with Avrom Sherr, Lisa Webley, Sarah Rogers, Lorraine Sherr, Alan Paterson and Simon Domberger); Third Way Regulation? Community Legal Service Partnerships (2001) 64/4 Modern Law Review 543-562; and Tribunals, Advice and the Community Legal Service, in Martin Partington (ed.), The Leggatt Review of Tribunals: Academic Seminar Papers (Bristol: Bristol Centre for the Study of Administrative Justice, 2001).