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CONTRIBUTORS
Rick Alexander
is the Founder of The Shareholder Commons; Counsel at Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, LLP; and Chair of the Delaware Access to Justice Commission’s Subcommittee on the Efficient Delivery and Adequate Funding of
Legal Services to the Poor. He emphasizes that the opinions ex- pressed in his article are his alone.
Daniel Atkins
has worked since 1990 at Community Le- gal Aid Society, Inc., Delaware’s oldest and largest civil legal services provider. Since July 2015, he has been its Executive Direc- tor. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Wid-
ener University Delaware Law School, where he has taught classes in poverty law, disability law, law and inequality, and medical-legal partnerships. In 2015, ACLU Delaware honored Atkins with the Gerald E. Kandler Award for outstanding lead- ership in the cause of civil liberties. In 2016, he received the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnerships Distinguished Advocate Award for his contribution to the research, policies, scaling and education that support the advancement of the Med- ical-Legal Partnership movement nationally.
Karen Lantz
joined the ACLU of Delaware in 2018, after seven years as legislative counsel in the Dela- ware House of Representatives. A graduate of University of Pennsylvania Law School, she clerked for Judge Theodore McKee of the
Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, was a federal prosecutor and worked at Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor. Before law school, she worked at the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington and Domestic Violence Center of Chester County.
James G. McGiffin, Jr.
After 27 years of rendering civil legal services for Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., in- cluding as its Executive Director, James G. McGiffin, Jr. was appointed by Governor Jack Markell and unanimously confirmed by the
State Senate as a judge on the Family Court. Judge McGiffin’s prior legal work included a five-year appointment as counsel to the Delaware State Senate (2011-2015) and two years as Chair of Delaware’s Equal Employment Review Board (1993-1994). He also served a term as a Family Court Commissioner (1994- 1998). He served five years on Dover’s City Council and was President of the Delaware State Bar Association. Judge McGiffin earned his undergraduate degree in Music from the University of North Texas and his law degree from Boston College.
Lisa Minutola
is the Chief of Legal Services for the Dela- ware Office of Defense Services, where she is responsible for its administration and its leg- islative and policy advocacy. She is a frequent speaker on criminal and juvenile justice topics.
In 2017, she was awarded the Delaware Center for Justice’s SURJ Award, the Delaware State Bar Association’s Service to Children Award and the Delaware Association of Criminal Defense Law- yers’ Killen Award. In 2018, she was appointed as co-director of the Northeast Juvenile Defender Center. She was graduated cum laude from the University of Delaware with a BA in History and Political Science in 1988 and received her JD from George Ma- son University School of Law in 1995.
William Pelletiers
is a Research Assistant at Moravian College who contributes to evaluation projects as a consultant to nonprofit organizations. He ad- vises Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley on effective service workflows and has
consulted with several other social service organizations on com- munity-oriented evaluation projects. He has also contributed to the United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Cam- pus Network to design global issue lesson plans for elementary and middle school classrooms. Previously, he managed data col- lection for a community civil legal-needs assessment that covered 20 counties and received over 600 respondents.
John Pollock
is a staff attorney for the Public Justice Cen- ter. He has served for the past nine years as the Coordinator of the National Coalition for the Civil Right to Counsel, which works to establish the right to counsel for low-income
individuals in civil cases involving such basic human needs as child custody, housing, safety and public benefits. He received the 2018 Innovations Award from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Pollock was previously the Enforcement Director for the Central Alabama Fair Housing Center and a Law Fellow for the Southern Poverty Law Center. He graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 2005. He is the author of a number of law review articles, including The Case Against Case-By-Case: Courts Identifying Categorical Rights to Counsel in Basic Human Needs Civil Cases, 61 Drake L.J. 763 (Spring 2013) and It’s Not Triage if the Patient Bleeds Out, 161 U. Penn. L.R. 40 (2012).
James Teufel
is Director and Assistant Professor of Pub- lic Health at Moravian College, an Advisor of the American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights, an Advisory Editor to the Law & Society Review, and a Healthcare
Law Subcommittee Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Project on Access to Justice. He is an evaluation consultant to North Penn Legal Services, The National Nurse- Led Care Consortium, and the Health, Education & Legal As- sistance Project: A Medical-Legal Partnership (HELP: MLP). A recognized scholar focused on the intersection of civil justice and health, he has contributed to over 100 national professional presentations and 40 professional publications. He received the 2015 National Medical-Legal Partnership Advocate of the Year Award.
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