Talk Justice: Episode 86
Remote Court Offers Multi-Door Access, but Availability is Spotty
Legal aid leaders from Florida and Illinois reflect on four years of remote court and consider the benefits and limits of virtual appearances, as well as the inconsistent policies surrounding them on Talk Justice.
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Leslie Powell-Boudreaux
Leslie Powell-Boudreaux is the Executive Director of Legal Services of North Florida (LSNF). Leslie has worked as Senior Attorney of LSNF’s Pensacola office, where her primary areas of practice were housing and consumer issues; and representation of victims, including children within the dependency system and victims of domestic and sexual violence. She was also a Senior Attorney with Legal Services of Greater Miami’s Employment and Economic Security unit. Under her leadership in Pensacola, the United Way of Escambia County recognized LSNF as its 2015 and 2017 Partner Agency of the Year. The Escambia Santa Rosa Bar Association awarded Leslie with its Community Service Award in 2015. Leslie received her undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University and her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Law...
Clarissa Gaff
Clarissa Gaff is the Executive Director of Land of Lincoln Legal Aid, Inc., which provides legal services to low-income individuals in 65 counties in southern and central Illinois. She began her career with Land of Lincoln in 2006 as a staff attorney, handling a variety of areas of law. Ms. Gaff also served as a Managing Attorney before becoming Executive Director in 2018. She has taught civil practice at St. Louis University School of Law. She currently serves on the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association (NLADA) Board of Directors, where she chairs its Civil Council. She also serves as the Chair of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Delivery of Legal Services Committee, and on the Illinois Supreme Court’s E-Business Policy Advisory Board. She earned her law degree from Washington University School of Law and a B.A. in English from Goshen College.
John J. Martino
John J. Martino grew up in Ormond Beach, Florida and went to the University of Central Florida where he majored in political science and helped run a successful voter registration drive during the 2008 presidential election cycle. John worked for the Washington Nationals baseball team during Spring Training internship program in Viera, Florida before attending the Florida International University College of Law, where he graduated in 2013. After passing the bar, John worked as an Assistant State Attorney for nearly five years in Volusia County where he honed his trial skills, before switching fields to work with Community Legal Services’ Family Law Unit which represents survivors of Domestic Violence in injunction and family law matters...
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Lee Rawles
Lee Rawles joined the ABA Journal in 2010 as a web producer. She has also worked for the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal and Legacy.com. She holds an M.S. in New Media from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a B.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois.