• Advise and represent low-income domestic and sexual violence victims in custody, child support, divorce, and protective order proceedings in five jurisdictions handling caseloads ranging between 30 to 50 ongoing cases at a time. • Interview clients using trauma-informed methods; draft legal documents including motions, orders, and discovery requests; and counsel clients on safety planning, relocation, and availability of public assistance options. • Participate in task force meetings in each of the five localities to increase inter-agency transparency and improve services for domestic and sexual violence victims.• Temporarily assumed consumer law cases taking actions including avoiding money judgments from creditors and filing homestead deeds to protect clients’ funds.• Successfully argued and won an unemployment compensation case on two levels of appeal.

• Served as an officer of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in Henrico County. • Conducted client visits and interviewed family members, school authorities, and medical professionals. • Provided recommendations to the judge on social services, and custody and visitation arrangements after fact gathering.

• Presented research findings to advise the supervisor of the Obed Wild and Scenic River Park on rangers’ jurisdictional authority on non-federal and less-than-fee interest lands within and surrounding the park. • Conducted research on enforcing violations of constitutional rights on tribal land.

• Prepared materials for advocacy training classes and tracked relevant bills during the legislative session. • Facilitated the organization’s collaboration with the Child Advocacy Center’s coalition that sought to increase restraint and seclusion regulations in schools.

• Advised low-income clients on navigating the legal system for public benefit, custody, divorce, and wills issues. • Drafted a motion for a will dispute case, wrote orders for family law hearings, and attended court proceedings.

• Designed the data collection and analytical methods of a project to compare names of arrestees from the current year with the names of children who had received help from the CAC to determine if child victimization predicts future criminality and if counseling helps attenuate the risks.

• Produced deposition summaries, reviewed case files, and compiled medical record summaries. • Attended depositions, court hearings, and a mediation.

• Drafted requests for admission and document production, settlement and mediation statements, and motions. • Created deposition summaries, edited briefs, and attended depositions.