Was it a difficult decision to leave Community Legal Services to come to Penn?
A. I don’t think it was a hard decision. It was a change, and it was an adjustment. But I felt I had accomplished many of the things I really wanted to accomplish and realized that as time went, one of the things I really enjoyed most was working with young people, working with young lawyers, working with students to help them fulfill their career goals. I like when students get excited about seeing the possibilities of the law. Q. What is the focus of your work here? A. I teach in a number of our clinics. I teach a civil practice clinic, which is a traditional, litigation-based clinic in which we supervise students who go into court and actually represent low-income individuals with their civil disputes. The students are the front-line lawyers. They are certified by our courts to represent clients as well as do the fieldwork necessary in terms of actually representing clients. I also teach a legislation clinic which I created after I came here. The idea there is to give students more
