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Our Staff
Interim Executive
Director
Katherine L. Morrison,
Morrison
Nonprofit
Transitions
Katherine
L.
Morrison
is a lifelong resident of the Washington, DC area and a
graduate of Duke University (BA) and George Washington University (MA).
She
has held a series of increasingly responsible positions in human
services program administration, culminating with15 years as President
and CEO of The Campagna Center in Alexandria, VA,
a local, nonprofit agency with programs for vulnerable youth and
families where she managed more than 240 employees and an annual budget
in excess of $8.5 million.
In
2006 Ms. Morrison founded a consulting
business, Morrison Nonprofit Transitions, to provide expert support to
nonprofits in the areas of resource development, strategic planning,
program creation, implementation and evaluation, board development and
executive transition management. Recent experiences include serving as
staff to a successful capital campaign and providing
a national nonprofit with an assessment of its development function,
and trainings/retreats for numerous boards of directors. Ms. Morrison
is affiliated with Plexus Consulting and Transition Guides.
In
addition to her professional experience Ms. Morrison has served in a
leadership capacity with numerous organizations including Leadership
Greater Washington (Class of 2005), the Women’s Giving Circle of
Alexandria,
the WETA Community Advisory Council, the Virginia Prevention and
Promotion Advisory Council, the Rotary Club of Alexandria (President
1999-2000), Steering Committee, Alexandria Call to Community, Board of
Trustees, Washington Street United Methodist Church (Chair 2007),
Arlandria Health Clinic Coalition, Northern Virginia Coalition of
Nonprofit Human Services Agencies (Chair, 1994-96), Hopkins House Board
of Trustees and the Junior League of Northern Virginia (Community
Advisor).
Ms.
Morrison has a life-long commitment to working for organizations that
support vulnerable persons.
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Support Staff
J. Wing C. Li
Administrative
Director; B.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Wing
Li joined D.C. Law Students In Court Program, Inc. in August 2008 as
its Administrative Director. Prior to coming to D.C., she was the
Office Manager for Hargreaves Associates, a landscape architectural
firm based in San Francisco. She was also a Human Resource Specialist
for Barclays Global Investors, an asset management firm in San
Francisco.
Previously she was an Online Product Support Coordinator for Google,
Inc. and a Native English Instructor in Japan. Ms. Li is fluent in
Cantonese and Japanese. She received a B.A. in Political Science at
UCLA.
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Flordelisa Pérez Dolan
Director
of
Development;
B.A.
Muhlenberg College; M.A. Lehigh University
Flordelisa
Pérez
Dolan
joined
the D.C. Law Students In Court Program, Inc.
in December 2006 as its Director of Development. Previously she worked
at the YWCA of Bethlehem in Bethlehem, PA as the Empowerment Center
Director overseeing, coordinating and planning 7 women, girls and
racial justice programs. The Mayor of Bethlehem named August 11, 2006
as Flordelisa Pérez Dolan Day for her contributions made to the
Bethlehem community through her work at the YWCA of Bethlehem. She
received a M.A. in Political Science at Lehigh University and a B.A. in
International Studies at Muhlenberg College.
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Linda A.
Brooks
Receptionist
For
over 9 years, Mrs. Brooks has been the face of DCLSIC. She greets all
with a warm smile and offer a helping hand. She is truly the glue that
holds everyone together.
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Civil Division
Nathan A. Neal
Adjunct Professor, Supervising Attorney; B.A. George Washington
University, J.D. Howard University School of Law.
Mr. Neal has been a Supervising Attorney with LSIC
since 1992 supervising third year law students with pending cases
before the D.C. Court of Appeals, D.C. Superior Court and various
administrative agencies. In addition, he taught both the trial
practice and substantive areas of the civil law to LSIC students.
His previous experience includes: U.S. Department of Justice
(Criminal Division) Attorney General's Honor Attorney appointment;
Trial Attorney; U.S. Department of Justice (Criminal Division) in the
Asset Forfeiture Office and the Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Section;
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for D.C.; and Law Clerk to the
Honorable Henry F. Greene, Associate Judge, Superior Court for D.C.
He was the Regional Director for the National Black Prosecutors
Association from 1991-92. Since 1979, he has been active with
the Sigma Chi Fraternity, holding many positions in the fraternity as
an undergraduate and alumnus member.
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Dorene M. Haney
Adjunct Professor, Supervising Attorney; B.A. University of Virginia,
J.D. Georgetown University Law Center.
Ms. Haney, a Civil Division Staff Attorney, has
been sharing her extensive litigation experience with LSIC students
since 1998. Ms. Haney's many contributions to LSIC include
supervision of students in bench and jury trials in D.C. Superior
Court, supervision of students in Landlord and Tenant and Small Claims
Courts, the Court of Appeals and before the RACD and instruction in
civil trial practice. Prior to joining LSIC, Ms. Haney worked as
a civil litigator in private practice handling numerous civil matters
on both the trial and appellate levels in State and Federal Courts.
She is a 1982 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center
where she served as a Staff Editor for Law and Policy in International
Business and participated in the Street Law program.
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Jenifer
E.
Foster
Staff Attorney; B.A.
Roanoke College; M.S.W. Catholic
University National
School of Social Services; J.D. Catholic University Columbus School of
Law.
Ms. Foster joined LSIC in January of 2008 in the DC City Council
grant-funded position to work with the Attorney-of-the-Day
project. Previously, she worked
as Director of Legal
Services at Our Place, DC, where she helped incarcerated women
negotiate their
civil legal problems. She taught legal
educational classes at the local jail, and educated professionals about
incarceration issues. Ms. Foster also
engaged in policy advocacy by testifying in front of DC City
Council. Additionally, Ms. Foster is a licensed social
worker and currently works part-time at So Others Might Eat, where she
has
provides counseling to individuals in psychiatric crisis. She has
worked at a number of local legal and
social service organizations. Ms. Foster
did a year of volunteer work in 1998 with the Jesuit Volunteer Corp in
Phoenix, AZ. She was awarded a Frederick B. Abramson
Foundation Fellowship in November 2007.
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Ara D. Parker
Adjunct
Professor,
Supervising
Attorney;
B.A. University of Central Florida;
J.D. Howard University School of Law.
Ara Parker joined the Civil Division as a Supervising
Attorney in early June 2009. Ara is a LSIC alumna, having participated
in the program in 2003-2004 when she was a law student at Howard
University School of Law. She brings an extensive litigation background
to the position, having been a Staff Counsel at GEICO for two years and
in private practice for a couple of years after that. Her private
practice focused on family law, estate planning and personal injury
matters and she has taken on many pro bono and reduced fee cases in the
landlord tenant area as well. Her interest in teaching and her desire
to work in a public service setting brings her back to LSIC.
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Brandee A.D. Pettus
Adjunct
Professor,
Supervising
Attorney;
B.A. University of Maryland;
J.D. Howard University School of Law
Ms.
Pettus joined LSIC in August of
2009. Prior to joining LSIC, Ms.
Pettus was in private practice as a solo practitioner in Maryland
and the District of Columbia,
handling primarily civil cases such as real estate and domestic
matters. She
is a mock trial coach at various high schools in Maryland. She is also
on the board of
Gabrielle’s Way, a non-profit organization geared toward the positive
development of minority females in the Greater Washington Metropolitan
area.
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Criminal Division
Moses A. Cook
Adjunct
Professor, Supervising Attorney; B.A. University of North Dakota, J.D.
Washington University School of Law, LL.M. Georgetown University Law
Center.
Mr. Cook completed a
Prettyman/Stiller Fellowship from Georgetown University
Law Center in 2005.
He litigated criminal cases, taught advocacy
classes and supervised third-year law students in its Criminal Justice
Clinic. While in law school he clerked
for both the Missouri State and Federal Public Defender in St. Louis, MO. He
graduated Washington University School
of Law in 2003. Mr. Cook became an
LSIC
supervising attorney in August 2005.
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Joanna C. Day
Adjunct Professor,
Supervising Attorney; B.A. Rice University, J.D., summa cum laude, American
University
Washington College of Law.
Ms. Day joined LSIC in September 2006 after relocating from Houston. Prior to moving to Houston, Ms. Day was a
staff attorney in the trial division of the Public Defender Service for
the District of Columbia. During her tenure at the Public
Defender Service, she represented juvenile and adults in all
stages of the criminal process, from presentment through
post-conviction matters. Ms. Day received a Marshall-Brennan
Fellowship during her second and third years of law school.
She also participated in the Criminal Law Clinic during her third
year. After her first year of law school, she interned at LSIC in
the civil division.
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Jennifer P.
Lyman
Adjunct Professor, Supervising Attorney;
B.A., Yale University; J.D., Stanford University, MS Organization
Development, American University
Professor
Lyman
joins
the LSIC Criminal Division in September 2009
after 20 years of clinical teaching and over a decade as a D.C. Public
Defender. In 2007-2009 she taught at the Washington College
of Law
(WCL) at American University, in the Women and the Law Clinic and then
the Criminal Justice Clinic, while completing a Masters degree in
Organization Development (applied behavioral sciences). From
1993-2008, she directed the Federal, Criminal, and Appellate Clinic as
Associate
and then Full Professor of Clinical Law at
George Washington University (GW). She began clinical teaching by
running a criminal appeals clinic and teaching an advanced evidence
seminar at WCL from 1990-1993. Before that, she spent 12 years at
the
D.C. Public Defender Service, where she was a Staff Attorney in the
trial
and appellate divisions, the Deputy Chief of the appellate division,
and finally the Training Director.
She began her legal career as a lawyer at the Food and Drug
Administration. Since 1994 she has worked with lawyers and law
professors on developing interactive teaching methods and trail
advocacy skills, in many countries, including Russia, Poland, Chile, El
Salvador and China.
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