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Our Staff
Executive Director
Mary C. Brittingham
Executive Director, Adjunct Professor; B.A. Bard College, J.D. Antioch
School of Law.
Ms. Brittingham joined DC Law
Students In Court in July
2008. Prior to joining LSIC, Ms. Brittingham was an associate professor
of
clinical law at the George
Washington University Law
School
for six years where she directed the law school’s externship program.
Before
her GW appointment, she taught at Georgetown University
Law Center, where she was a
fellow and then acting director of the Center for Applied Legal
Studies, an
immigration and human rights law clinic. At CALS, Ms. Brittingham
taught asylum
and refugee law, trial advocacy, legal research and writing, and
interviewing
and counseling. Before teaching at Georgetown,
Ms. Brittingham was in private practice for several years, practicing
exclusively in the field of immigration law. She began her legal career
at the
Legal Aid Society in Washington,
DC and
later became the managing
staff attorney at AYUDA, where she handled immigration, family,
landlord and
tenant, consumer, and employment matters. She is a past president of
the AYUDA
Board of Directors and a former mentor to the Georgetown Public
Interest Law
Scholars program and Whitman Walker Legal Services.
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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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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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James
S. Manlowe
Adjunct Professor, Supervising
Attorney; B.A., University of
California
at Los Angeles;
J.D., Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College.
Mr. Manlowe started at LSIC in
December 2007 following a
teaching position in the country of Burma. He has
practiced
environmental law in Armenia
and worked for a small firm in Arizona
primarily representing school districts. He has also lived in Sri Lanka, Fiji,
and Australia. Mr. Manlowe began his legal career as a legal
aid attorney on the Navajo and Hopi reservations concentrating on
family and
consumer law and civil rights litigation.
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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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Criminal Division
Geoffrey O. Harris
Adjunct Professor, Supervising Attorney; B.A. Tufts University, J.D.
Catholic University Columbus School of Law.
Mr. Harris joined the clinic in November 2004
after ten years as a solo practitioner representing clients in
criminal, juvenile and neglect matters in D.C. Superior Court. He
worked for two years prior to his private practice with the Public
Defender Service in the District of Columbia. With PDS he was in the
Juvenile Services Program. He was assistant director of After School
Kids (ASK) Program for two years before attending law school. ASK
provided an alternative to incarceration for juvenile offenders in
cooperation with the Superior Court and Georgetown University.
Mr. Harris was an Associate Editor of CUA's Journal of Health Law and
Policy.
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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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