Kirsten Anderson

Kirsten Anderson is a social justice lawyer who has spent her career protecting and defending the civil and human rights of individuals who otherwise would not have access to the justice system. She is currently the Deputy Legal Director – Economic Justice at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Previously, from 2016 to 2021, she served as the Litigation Director of Southern Legal Counsel (SLC), a statewide non-profit public interest law firm in Florida that is dedicated to the ideal of equal justice under the law. At SLC, Ms. Anderson provided strategic leadership to develop high-impact initiatives to achieve systemic reform on behalf of individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty, LGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and children with mental health and other special needs. She joined SLC in 2007 as an attorney and Director of SLC’s Ending Homelessness Project. She has led complex litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts, resulting in precedent-setting opinions and changes in state and local policies. Two of her cases have been honored with the Steven M. Goldstein award, provided to civil legal aid grantees of The Florida Bar Foundation for excellence in legal representation of individuals experiencing poverty. Prior to joining SLC, she worked as an immigration lawyer in private practice. Ms. Anderson is a member of The Florida Bar and licensed to practice law since 2005. She received a JD, with honors, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and a MA in Latin American Studies in 2005.

Howard Belodoff

Howard Belodoff is the Associate Director of Idaho Legal Aid Services, Inc. and has a part time private office. In 1978 Mr. Belodoff received a Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship from Howard University after graduating from the University of Idaho College of Law. Mr. Belodoff’s trial and appellate work has focused on complex civil rights. He has established case precedents of national significance. The decisions concern fair housing, religious, transgender, sex, and sexual orientation discrimination and the constitutional rights under the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments on behalf of institutionalized and mentally ill children and adults, unhoused persons, same sex couples, inmates and prisoners, farm workers, persons with HIV, the protection of the religious and trust land rights of Native Americans, and the awarding of statutory attorney fees including fourteen successful appeals in the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Belodoff was honored to receive the 2021 Idaho State Bar “Distinguished Lawyer” Award, the 2019 Reginald Heber Smith Justice Award by the NLADA and the 2018 Idaho Trial Lawyers Association “Trial Lawyer of the Year” Award. He is currently the Idaho District Court’s Ninth Circuit Lawyer’s Representative, has been named a “Super Lawyer” since 2010 and is a Martindale-Hubbell Most Honored Lawyer.

Evan K. Buchberger

Evan K. Buchberger is a graduate of the University of Rochester (2008) and the University of Connecticut School of Law (2012). He is admitted to practice before the state and federal courts of Connecticut and Massachusetts as well as the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Second Circuit. Before coming to Connecticut Legal Services, Inc., a nonprofit private firm dedicated to serving low-income and families, Attorney Buchberger maintained a busy and varied litigation practice. In ten years in private practice, he regularly represented both individuals and businesses in complex litigation both at trial and on appeal in cases involving, among other things, unfair trade practices, employee benefits, and employment discrimination. In addition to serving low-income individuals and families as managing attorney for Connecticut Legal Service’s New Britain Office, Attorney Buchberger currently serves on the board of directors of Journey Home, a nonprofit seeking to end homelessness in central Connecticut.

Robert Capistrano

Robert Capistrano was a legal services lawyer for 43 years before retiring as Senior Counsel for Bay Area Legal Aid in Oakland, California.

Seth Davis

Seth Davis is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. His scholarship on the federal courts has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and the California Law Review, among other leading journals, and has been honored by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). In addition, Davis is a co-author of Federal Courts in Context, a federal courts casebook, and a co-author of D.C. Circuit Review – Reviewed at the Notice & Comment blog.

Kevin De Liban

Kevin De Liban worked for 12 years at Legal Aid of Arkansas—most recently as its Director of Advocacy--where he used multi-dimensional strategies to improve the lives of low-income Arkansas in civil legal matters involving health, workers' rights, public benefits, housing, consumer rights, and domestic violence. Representing over 1,800 people, Kevin partnered with clients to transform their experiences of injustice into successful systemic campaigns tackling cutting-edge issues of modern anti-poverty advocacy: ending the state’s use of algorithms that cut the in-home care of elderly and disabled people, stopping Medicaid work reporting requirements that had stripped health insurance from 18,000 people in five months, and overcoming qualified immunity to hold state officials personally liable for violating constitutional rights. In 2022, he co-founded the Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub, a collaboration between public interest lawyers and technologists to fight the harmful use of tech in public benefits. Kevin regularly presents about imposing accountability on artificial intelligence and algorithms and consults with advocates in the U.S. and abroad. His work has appeared on or in the PBS Newshour, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, the Economist, the Verge, and other outlets. In 2024, Kevin left Legal Aid to launch TechTonic Justice, a new undertaking to fight the ground-level harms that AI inflicts on low-income people nationwide.

Lisa J. D’Souza

Lisa J. D’Souza is the Hon. Richard B. Teitelman Chair at Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM). She focuses on litigation and other impact advocacy tools to address policies and practices that create barriers to equal opportunities in education, housing, health care, public benefits, immigration or other basic civil rights for individuals marginalized by lack of resources, race, disability, or other circumstances. Prior to LSEM, Lisa represented migrant farmworkers as a staff attorney at Texas Riogrande Legal Aid, enforced federal employment laws as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, conducted Medicaid class action litigation and policy work as a staff attorney at the Tennessee Justice Center, and zealously advocated for the indigent accused as an assistant public defender with Nashville Defenders. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1996.

Joel Ferber

Joel Ferber is the Director of Advocacy of Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM). He is a graduate of John Hopkins University and New York University School of Law. Joel has conducted extensive advocacy regarding public benefits, Medicaid, managed care, the Food Stamp Program, and low income health care issues. Joel has also litigated cases affecting low-income clients in the United States District Courts and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He was also one of the lead attorneys representing Missouri consumer groups in the settlement of a lawsuit involving the reorganization of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri: a settlement that established the Missouri Foundation for Health, the largest health care foundation in the state of Missouri. Joel has won numerous awards including the Alberta Slavin Award from Consumers Council of Missouri (in 2012) and the Clarence Darrow award from St. Louis University School of Law (in 2011). Joel has been a presenter at numerous state and national conferences and has written extensively on health care access and public benefits in Clearinghouse Review, the St. Louis University Law Journal and elsewhere. He has also been a trainer on Affirmative Litigation and related advocacy for the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, the Center for Legal Aid Education and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Joel is currently chair of the Community Advisory Council of the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) and an ex officio member of MFH’s board of directors.

Nick Gable

Nick Gable is a senior attorney at Disability Rights Michigan, where he litigates systemic and impact cases that protect and further the rights of Michiganders with disabilities. His cases include Waskul et al. v. Washtenaw County Community Mental Health et al., 979 F.3d 426 (6th Cir. 2020), Wiesner v. Washtenaw County Community Mental Health, 340 Mich. App. 572 (2022), and C.B. v. Livingston County Community Mental Health, 2023 WL 8482984, -- Mich. App. -- (2023). His amicus cases include Woodman v. Department of Corrections, 511 Mich. 427 (2023), in which he represented, as primary author, the State Bar of Michigan, every legal aid organization in Michigan, the Michigan State Planning Body, and Disability Rights Michigan in an amicus brief that helped secure a landmark ruling concerning pro bono attorney fees. He represents the Sixth Circuit in the National Disability Rights Network’s Legal Strategies Workgroup. That workgroup, among other things, advises NDRN on matters of national strategy and amicus participation throughout the country.

Jeffrey S. Gutman

Jeffrey S. Gutman is a Professor of Clinical Law at The George Washington University Law School. Prior to coming to the law school in 1994, Jeffrey S. Gutman served as a trial attorney in the Federal Programs Branch, Civil Division, Department of Justice (DOJ). His work at the DOJ principally involved representing the federal government in constitutional and administrative challenges to federal statutes and regulations in federal courts throughout the country. Among the cases he litigated were challenges to the military base closing statute, firearms control legislation and regulations, legislation governing the receipt of honoraria by federal employees, the savings and loan reform statutes, and private meetings of government advisers. Professor Gutman clerked for a federal district court judge in California after graduating from law school. He directs the Public Justice Advocacy Clinic and, for over twenty years, taught Civil Procedure. The Clinic has engaged in impact civil rights litigation, representation of low wage workers in employment law matters and now represents individuals and non-profits in federal and local Freedom of Information Act litigation. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2000 to 2008. Professor Gutman was the editor in chief of the Federal Practice Manual for Legal Aid Attorneys, served on the Board of Governors of the District of Columbia Bar and mediates civil cases in the D.C. Court of Appeals and the D.C. Superior Court Multi-Door Dispute Resolution program. After representing four men exonerated of crimes by DNA evidence who spent decades in jail on civil claims against the District of Columbia government, he turned his scholarship to the area of wrongful conviction compensation. Professor Gutman is a special contributor to the National Registry of Exonerations and serves on the Board of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project.

William Hamilton

William Hamilton is a Senior Legal Skills Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches electronic discovery, digital evidence, professional responsibility, pretrial practice, and advanced civil procedure. He is the Executive Director of the law school’s International Center for Automated Information Retrieval. Mr. Hamilton is a featured speaker and writer on business litigation, electronic discovery, artificial intelligence, and evidence. He is also a domain name dispute neutral for the World Intellectual Property Organization. Mr. Hamilton was board certified in litigation and intellectual property and practiced for 30 years in major law firms before joining the faculty at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. His books include the LexisNexis Practice Guide: Florida e-Discovery and Evidence and A Student Electronic Discovery Primer.

Katherine Hanson

Katherine Hanson is a Managing Attorney with Disability Rights Florida (DRF) where she focuses her practice on disability rights and housing law. Prior to joining DRF, Katherine was the Co-Director of Jacksonville Area Legal Aid’s Fair Housing Unit where she practiced fair housing, landlord tenant, and consumer law. Katherine was a 2018 recipient of the National Consumer Law Center’s Rising Star Award and is the Chair of the Public Interest Law Section of the Florida Bar’s Disability Workgroup.

Nilda Rodriguez Havrilla

Nilda Rodriguez Havrilla is a graduate of Trinity College (2000) and Northeastern University School of Law (2003). She is admitted to practice law in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and the United States District Court of Connecticut. From 2011 to 2019, she was the Managing Attorney of the Housing Unit at Connecticut Legal Services, Inc. (CLS), a nonprofit private law firm that is dedicated to helping low-income individuals and families obtain justice. She now serves as the Litigation and Advocacy Director. In her 18 years of practice at CLS, Attorney Rodriguez Havrilla has handled housing matters before administrative agencies, state court, and federal court, including evictions, illegal lockouts, housing discrimination cases, False Claims Act cases, grievance hearings with public housing authorities and preservation of housing subsidies. She argued at the Connecticut Appellate Court in 2021 and most recently worked on a class action in Federal Court on behalf of Medicaid recipients who utilize non-emergency medical transportation. Attorney Rodriguez Havrilla is the Legal Services Committee Member for Connecticut’s Disaster Housing Task Force that was created by the Governor following Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 to address temporary and long term housing needs of Connecticut residents. She is a Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation James W. Cooper Fellows Program and a former board member of the Connecticut Fair Housing Center and the Friendship Service Center.

Carmela Huang

Carmela Huang is a Senior Attorney with the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, joining in January 2022. Carmela has a background in representing low-wage workers. Carmela previously worked as a supervising attorney in the Employment Law Unit of The Legal Aid Society, an attorney/supervising attorney in the Workers’ Rights Practice of the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center and law clerk for Judge Lois Bloom in the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York. She is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law, where she was a Stein Scholar in Public Interest and Law, a Crowley Scholar in International Human Rights and recipient of the Addison M. Metcalf Labor Law Prize and National Association of Women Lawyers Award. Carmela graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University’s School of General Studies.

Chinh Q. Le

Chinh Q. Le is a visiting professor of practice at the University of Virginia School of Law and a distinguished fellow with the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy. Prior to joining the UVA Law faculty, he served as the legal director of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia from 2011 to 2021. He began his career as a Skadden Fellow and then assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., and has also worked in government and private practice.

Sara Lunden

Sara Lunden is a Staff Attorney with the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, joining as a Columbia Law School Public Interest Fellow in September 2022. Previously, she was a summer intern with NCLEJ. And during law school, she worked in various of areas of civil litigation including disability rights with the Bet Tzedek Civil Litigation Clinic, and housing rights with Mobilization for Justice. Prior to law school she worked as an advocate for New Yorkers who had trouble with their health insurance with the Community Service Society of New York. Sara graduated from Cardozo Law School, where she was the Executive Editor of Cardozo Law Review. She received her undergraduate degrees in Biology and Spanish from Johns Hopkins University, and her Master’s in Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health.

Catherine McKee

Catherine McKee is a Senior Attorney at the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), a public interest law firm working to ensure health equity and to protect and advance the legal rights of low-income and under-served people. She works to improve access to Medicaid coverage and services through litigation and policy advocacy. Catherine has been co-counsel in a number of cases challenging federal approval of Medicaid waiver projects that include work requirements and other harmful restrictions on coverage. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and Duke University.

John Parry

John Parry is Associate Dean of Faculty and Edward Brunet Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. He teaches and writes about civil procedure, federal courts, and civil rights litigation (among other things), and he is a co-author of the treatise Summary Judgment: Federal Law & Practice.

Jane Perkins

Jane Perkins is the Litigation Director of the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), a public interest law firm working to ensure health equity and to protect and advance the legal rights of low-income and under-served people. She manages NHeLP’s litigation docket and litigates cases in federal and state courts. Jane has served as lead or co-counsel in more the 35 high profile cases across the country. She is admitted to the state bars of California and North Carolina, all of the federal circuit courts of appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Perkins is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Law; University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health; and Davidson College.

Laurence M. Rose

Laurence M. Rose is a professor of law emeritus and former director of the Litigation Skills Program. Professor Rose earned a B.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1969 and a J.D. in 1972 from New York University School of Law, where he was Business Editor of the NYU Law Review. He served as law clerk to Chief Judge James S. Holden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont in 1972-73, after which he entered private practice until 1976. From 1976 to 1990, Professor Rose served on the faculty of the University of Kansas School of Law. He was President/CEO of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) from 2007-2010, after having served as NITA's executive director from 1999-2006 and associate director from 1986-1992. From 1995-1998 he served as vice dean of the law school. In 2010, Professor Rose returned to Miami Law to run the Litigations Skills Program. Professor Rose received the 2012 Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award from the American Bar Association's Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Section, and the 1998 Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy from the Roscoe Pound Foundation. In 2001 he was named an Academic Member of the International Society of Barristers. Professor Rose has lectured and taught throughout the world and has appeared in over 300 trial advocacy programs, serving more than 10,000 participants.

Richard Rothschild

Richard Rothschild is the Director of Litigation for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, the state support center for California’s legal services programs. The Western Center litigates and engages in policy advocacy on behalf of low-income Californians, with emphasis on health, housing, public benefits, and access to justice. Among Mr. Rothschild’s honors are the 2008 State Bar of California’s Loren Miller Legal Services Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Bar for public interest attorneys; the 2012 Shattuck-Price Award (the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s highest honor); the National Legal Aid Association’s 2015 annual Kutak-Dodds Prize; and the 2022 Earl Johnson Equal Justice Award. Mr. Rothschild received his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law; and was a law clerk for California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk.

Sasha Samberg-Champion

Sasha Samberg-Champion is Deputy General Counsel for Fair Housing and Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Prior to joining HUD, he was counsel at Relman Colfax PLLC, where he developed and litigated numerous complex cases under the Fair Housing Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and other civil rights laws. He played a key role in several challenges to HUD policies during the Trump Administration. Earlier in his career, Sasha was a senior attorney in the Appellate Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division, where he litigated appeals regarding a wide range of civil rights issues, and assisted in the formulation of DOJ positions. Before that, he was an Assistant Solicitor General with the New York State Attorney General’s Office. He has argued dozens of appeals and filed briefs in many others, including in many proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court. Sasha has received numerous awards and honors, including two Distinguished Service Awards from the Civil Rights Division, the New York Attorney General’s Louis Lefkowitz Award, and a Supreme Court Best Brief Award from the National Association of Attorneys General. He is a graduate of Haverford College and Columbia Law School and a former law clerk for the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Hon. Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Peter Sleasman

Peter Sleasman is the Executive Director for Disability Rights Florida, a non-profit legal assistance protection and advocacy organization for individuals with disabilities. For nearly 40 years he has practiced civil rights litigation, class action litigation, and institutional reform litigation in state and federal courts for legal aid or public interest law firms including: Florida Legal Services; the Advocacy Director of the Legal Advocacy Center of Central Florida; Southern Legal Counsel; and Florida Institutional Legal Services, a legal aid office for incarcerated individuals in the state prison system. He received his J.D. from the University of Florida and his B.A. from Centre College, in Danville, Kentucky. He is a member of the Florida Bar, United States District Court for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He is a member of the Public Interest Law Section of the Florida Bar and a past chair of the Disability Law Committee. He is also a recipient of the Section’s John J. Copelan, Jr. Award, for significant contributions in the field of public interest law. He has spoken in his areas of expertise - federal civil rights litigation and disability law - in numerous legal services trainings and seminars.

Annie Smith

Annie Smith is a professor of law at the University of Arkansas School of Law where she directs the Civil Litigation & Advocacy Clinic and Human Trafficking Clinic. From 2019-2022, she also served as faculty director of the School of Law’s Public Service and Pro Bono Program. Professor Smith’s advocacy and scholarship focus on labor exploitation and enforcement of the rights of low-wage workers. She and her students have represented numerous clients in unpaid wage, forced labor and human trafficking, and other matters. Her articles have been published in the Washington Law Review, New York University Review of Law and Social Change, and South Carolina Law Review. Professor Smith received the Arkansas Bar Foundation's Best Legal Writing 2022 for her article, "Understanding Human Trafficking Laws and Liability" published in The Arkansas Lawyer. In 2021, Professor Smith received the inaugural School of Law Dean's Circle Faculty Award for Service. Professor Smith serves as the vice chair of the board of Legal Aid of Arkansas and, from 2012 through 2018, served on the board of the Northwest Arkansas Workers’ Justice Center. Professor Smith created the Arkansas Labor Trafficking Awareness Project and co- designed the human trafficking curriculum for the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy. She is the former chair of the AALS Section on Poverty Law and a member of the section’s executive committee. Previously, Professor Smith served as a Friedman Fellow and interim director of the International Human Rights Clinic at The George Washington University Law School. She started her legal career at the Workers Legal Rights Project of Legal Services of New Jersey.

Sarah Somers

Sarah Somers is Legal Director of the National Health Law Program’s (NHeLP) Chapel Hill, North Carolina office. As Legal Director, she has responsibility for implementing and overseeing the organization’s legal and policy strategy. As an attorney, she specializes in litigation and litigation support intended to advance access to quality health care for low income and other underserved people. Working with health and poverty law advocates across the country, she engages in litigation, research, writing, and training. She has represented low-income clients in federal and state courts around the country. Her areas of expertise include the Medicaid program, Medicaid managed care, Medicaid services for children, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Affordable Care Act. Her publications include A Guide to Oversight, Transparency, and Accountability in Medicaid Managed Care (co-author) (March 2015); National Health Law Program and The Network for Public Health Law, Model Managed Care Provisions: EPSDT Vision and Hearing Services (co-author) (August 2015); CMS, EPSDT – A Guide for States: Coverage in the Medicaid Benefit for Children and Adolescents (co-author and collaborator) (June 2014). She is also a co-author and co-editor of An Advocates Guide to the Medicaid Program (May 2011, update forthcoming 2024). Recent articles include Medicaid’s Gold Standard Coverage for Children and Youth: Past, Present, and Future¸ Annals Health L. & Sci. (co-author) (Summer 2021) and The Supreme Court Reinforces Barriers to Court Access; Cases from the 2019-2020 Term, 13 NE. U. L. Rev. 575 (co-author) (Spring 2021). Before coming to NHeLP, she worked for the Native American Disability Law Center on the Navajo Nation, where she represented children in special education and Medicaid cases. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (JD), Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina (MPH), and Wellesley College (BA).

Douglas L. Stevick

Douglas L. Stevick is a general counsel at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA), where he has represented migrant farmworkers and other low-wage workers for more than two decades in employment and civil rights litigation in federal and state court and in systemic administrative advocacy. He founded TRLA’s Southern Migrant Legal Services office in Nashville, Tennessee, which he ran for ten years. For two years, he was co-director of litigation at Legal Aid of North West Texas. He was an Abraham Fuchsberg Fellow at Public Citizen Litigation Group and a Yale Law School Arthur Liman Fellow at TRLA. He has also worked for plaintiff-side employment and civil rights law firms. Doug was a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School in 2006, and in 2010 he won the Ashley Wilshire Public Service Attorney of the Year Award from the Tennessee Bar Association. He clerked for a federal district court judge in Laredo, Texas. Doug is a graduate of Yale Law School, and he has bachelor’s degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Oxford.

Danielle Acker Susanj

Danielle Acker Susanj is Executive Vice President at the Fairness Center, which represents clients in constitutional and civil rights matters. Prior to joining the Fairness Center, Danielle was a litigation associate at a large international firm in Washington, D.C. and a litigator in central Pennsylvania, representing clients in federal district and appellate courts and the United States Supreme Court. Danielle received her Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, graduating magna cum laude and Order of the Coif. At Penn Law, she was a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Board and the Supreme Court Clinic. After law school she clerked for a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She received a B.A. in history from Wheaton College.

Alan M. Trammell

Alan M. Trammell is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University, where his teaching and research focus on civil procedure and federal courts. His scholarship has appeared in leading academic journals, including the Columbia Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, and the Texas Law Review. Prior to entering academia, he worked at a litigation boutique in Washington, D.C. and clerked on the D.C. Circuit and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Richard P. Weishaupt

Richard P. Weishaupt is a Senior Attorney for Health and Human Services at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, where he has worked for more than 40 years. He specializes in public benefits, health law and Social Security has written extensively in the field. He has litigated more than 60 cases mostly class actions and has argued successfully in the US Supreme Court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, among others. Mr. Weishaupt has designed and taught substantive law and legal skills programs for lawyers, paralegals, and lay people. These include programs for: Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, Legal Services Corporation, National Health Law Project, Children’s Defense Fund, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, the National Organization of Social Security Representatives and various City agencies and numerous colleges and law schools in the area. He has also testified before the the US Congress, Pennsylvania Legislature and the Philadelphia City Council. Mr. Weishaupt earned his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. He graduated from Fordham University with a B.A. in Economics, Suma cum laude.