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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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