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

Alan Paterson - Professor, Strathclyde University Law School, Scotland

Alan Paterson is a Professor of Law and former chairman of Strathclyde University Law School, Scotland. He is the Chair of the International Legal Aid Group and has co-organized conferences of the Group in the Hague (1995), Edinburgh (1997), Vancouver (1999), and Melbourne (2001). Professor Paterson also chairs the Legal Aid and Legal Service Group of the International Working Group on Comparative Legal Professions. He is the chair of the Legal Services Group of Citizens Advice Scotland. Currently he serves as research advisor to the Scottish Legal Aid Board and to the Scottish Executive's Working Group on Community Legal Services. He is also the Scottish consultant on the Nuffield Foundation funded project on Access to Justice in Scotland. Educated at Edinburgh and Oxford Universities and qualified as a solicitor in Scotland, he has published numerous articles on legal aid and legal services.

Dahlia Remlar -

Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health and School of International and Public Affairs

Professor Remler is an expert on the economics of health care, health care innovation, and health care financing. She has dual PhDs, in Chemistry, Oxford, 1989, and in Economics, Harvard, 1994. Professor Remler has been a Marshall Fellow and a Brookings Research Fellow. She has published widely on topics relating to the economics of health care and cost benefit in allocation of health care resources. She has, with others, a manuscript in progress, "The Economics of Telemedicine for Medicare Diabetics: Cost-effectiveness, Payment Systems and Policy Implications."

Dean Rivkin - Professor, University of Tennessee College of Law

Dean Rivkin is a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law. He has been an advocate for the rights of children and families, a protector of the environment, and a supporter of public interest law. He has been counsel in public interest litigation concerning such issues as air pollution, a challenge to the Tennessee Barratry Statute, the defense of the Tennessee Surface Owner Protection Act, and the rights of children in special education. He is a member of the Southern Appalachian Mountain Initiative, a comprehensive effort to combat the adverse effects of air pollution on the national parks and wilderness areas in the Southeast. He is a frequent presenter at programs on the rights of disabled school children, and has delivered papers to the American Bar Association (ABA) and American Association of Law Schools (AALS) conferences on clinical education and public interest law. Since 2000, he has served as Director of the AALS Equal Justice Project. He has also served as a visiting professor at the UCLA Law School, the University of Maryland Law School, and currently is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. He received his A.B. from Hamilton College in 1968, and J.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1971.

Ada Shen-Jaffe - Director, Columbia Legal Services

Ada Shen-Jaffe has been involved in equal justice efforts in Washington State since 1975. She is currently the Director of Columbia Legal Services (CLS), a statewide civil legal services program that resulted from the January 1, 1996 merger of the three former LSC-funded programs in Washington State - the Puget Sound Legal Assistance Foundation, the Spokane Legal Services Center, and Evergreen Legal Services. She served as Director of Evergreen Legal Services from May 1986 until December 31, 1995; prior to that, she served as a staff attorney and Deputy Director at Evergreen. She served on the Board of Directors of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association from 1988 to 1993, chairing the Association's Bylaws Committee. She is an active member of numerous boards, committees and task forces, including the Center on Law and Social Policy in Washington, DC, the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota, Legal Aid for Washington Fund, and many committees of the Access to Justice Board. She served on the Legal Services Corporation transition team in Washington, DC from January through August of 1994. She received her B.A. from Tufts University, M.S. from Columbia University, and J.D. from Suffolk University School of Law.

Gerry Singsen - Consultant to Legal Services Programs

Gerry Singsen worked in legal services programs in White Plains and New York City ten years before becoming Vice-President of the Legal Services Corporation from 1979-1982. Mr. Singsen is also well known to HLS. He came to Harvard for more than a decade as a Lecturer on Law. While at Harvard, he developed and taught a course on the History of Legal Services and was Coordinator of the Poverty Law Consortium which involved the collaboration of several law schools in a Ford Foundation funded project seeking to involve law school teaching and clinical practice related to persistent poverty in the US. In 1994 he returned to LSC. Mr. Singsen has also directed a medium-size legal services program, held a key program position with the Legal Services Corporation early in the Clinton Administration and consulted on many planning and policy issues related to delivery of legal services to the poor.

Louise Trubek - Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School

Louise Trubek is a Clinical Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She serves as Clinical Director and Senior Attorney at the Center for Public Representation, Inc., and currently is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. She teaches a public interest law clinic with an emphasis on health, telecommunications, and antipoverty, and she teaches a class on Health Law, Poverty Law, and Lawyering in the Public Interest. She co-authored the casebook Poverty Law: Theory and Practice with Julie Nice and is the author of many articles on lawyering for disadvantaged people and health law. She is also active as a scholar and educator on international issues and organized a regional conference on lawyering for disadvantaged people in Kobe and Tokyo in December, 1999. She is the co-editor of two volumes with Jeremy Cooper, one entitled Educating for Justice: Social Values and Legal Education, and the other entitled Educating for Justice Around the World: Legal Education, Legal Practice, and the Community. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and her J.D. from Yale Law School.

Randy Youells - Vice President for Programs, Legal Services Corporation

Randi Youells is the Legal Services Corporation's top program official, charged with overseeing LSC's Offices of Program Performance and Information Management. In her capacity, she oversees the competitive grants process by which LSC funds are awarded, the delivery of legal services in all 50 states, and the collection and dissemination of program data on recipients of LSC funds. Ms. Youells was appointed to her position in January 2000 after accumulating extensive experience working in the legal services field since 1978. She became VP of programs after serving as a key adviser in LSC's state planning initiative charged with creating comprehensive, statewide civil equal justice systems. Ms. Youells' field experience includes work performed for LSC-funded programs in Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, and Washington State. She has directed two programs - serving as Executive Director for Legal Services Corporation of Iowa and Interim Executive Director for Camden Regional Legal Services in New Jersey.
Ms. Youells received her B.A. from Mount Mercy College in Cedar rapids, Iowa, in 1973. She was awarded her J.D. three years later from the University of Iowa. Ms. Youells earned her master's degree in community psychology from Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg. She is the author of several published articles on legal aid; and she edited Talking Tough: A Poor Person's Guide to Self-Advocacy for Legal Services Corporation of Iowa.