Speakers et al.
SPEAKERS, EMCEE, ET AL.- Jade Brown (Civil Litigation Program, Boston University)
- Ariel Clemmer (Center for Social Justice, Western New England)
- David Colarusso (LIT Lab, Suffolk University Law School)
- Dan Jackson (NuLawLab, Northeastern University School of Law)
- Quinten Steenhuis (LIT Lab, Suffolk University Law School)
- Bryce Willey (LIT Lab, Suffolk University Law School)
STUDENT PRESENTERS
- Grace Barlow Enchill (LIT Fellow, Suffolk University Law School)
- Thomas Levu (LIT Fellow, Suffolk University Law School)
- Matthew Patalano (LIT Fellow, Suffolk University Law School)
- Aubrie Souza (LIT Fellow, Suffolk University Law School)
Alphabetical List (Speakers, Organizers, et al.)
Jade Brown, Lecturer and Clinical Instructor (Boston University)
Jade Brown is a clinical instructor in the Civil Litigation & Justice Program (CLJP) at Boston University School of Law. Jade teaches the art of lawyering in the CLJP’s clinics, in which students practice employment, housing, and family law in the context of analyzing issues of systemic justice. Previously, Jade was a staff attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), where she practiced housing and consumer law. At GBLS, she represented consumers in a variety of cases including eviction, foreclosure, debt collection, credit reporting, and fraud cases. Jade also helped to develop a highly regarded Lawyer-for-the-Day Debt Clinic to represent consumers sued by debt collectors in small claims court. As a result of her expertise, she has been asked to testify before the Massachusetts Legislature about the effects of wage garnishment on low-income consumers. Jade graduated from Boston University School of Law in 2016 and was a recipient of the BU Public Interest Fellowship. She has been an active participant in the conversation about the COVID-19 pandemic and legal resources, most recently she created a project at BU Law where law students assist tenants with filing an Answer to an eviction case entirely remotely using the MADE online portal.
Ariel Clemmer, Director of the Center for Social Justice
Clemmer obtained her B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Richmond in 2005, after which she worked as an elementary school teacher with Teach For America in New York City’s Spanish Harlem neighborhood. Clemmer received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2010, where she was a member of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and the Harvard Defenders.
After graduation, she started her career as a public defender at the Bronx Defenders, representing low-income clients charged with misdemeanor and felony crimes. She then worked for the firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, defending clients against security class actions and other complex financial matters, while continuing to develop her pro bono practice litigating matrimonial, civil, and criminal cases.
In 2014, Clemmer was selected by the partners at Weil, Gotshal & Manges to participate in a pro bono externship at Legal Services of New York City (LSNYC). Her excellent work there resulted in her being named one of the “Top 30 Pro Bono Attorneys of 2014” by LSNYC. Clemmer also began working with clients facing difficult divorce and custody matters, which led to her joining the boutique Manhattan firm, Donohoe Talbert, LLP, where she worked as a matrimonial and family-law associate from 2015 to 2017. She also served as an active member of LSNYC’s Pro Bono Associate Advisory Board.
Most recently, Clemmer was the pro bono director at the Hampden County Bar Association where she managed all aspects of the organization’s pro bono activity, including directing the award-winning, nationally recognized Hampden County Legal Clinic. She continues to serve as the lead attorney in charge of the Lawyer for the Day Consumer Debt Initiative, a pro bono project serving self-represented litigants who are defending credit card collection actions filed by debt buyers in the Springfield District Court Small Claims session. Clemmer also volunteers as a pro bono attorney with a number of organizations, including the ACLU of Massachusetts’ Immigration Protection Project, PAIR, and Springfield No One Leaves.
Clemmer is currently an adjunct faculty member at WNE School of Law teaching Law and Social Change. She was chosen as a JCC 2020 Women inPower Fellow and is participating in the Women Innovators & Trailblazers (WIT) Mentor Match Program this spring. Clemmer was also recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School and serves on both the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services and as Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission Consumer Debt Working Group Subcommittee. She recently received the 2020 Excellence in the Law Award in the category of Excellence in Pro Bono, presented by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
David Colarusso, Director of the Legal Innovation and Technology Lab
David Colarusso is the Director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation and Technology Lab. An attorney and educator by training, he has worked as a public defender, data scientist, software engineer, and high school physics teacher. He is the author of a programming language for lawyers, QnA Markup, an award winning legal hacker, ABA Legal Rebel, and Fastcase 50 honoree. In 2017 he was named one of the ABA's top legal tweeters.
Dan Jackson, Executive Director of the NuLawLab at Northeastern University School of Law
Dan Jackson directs the NuLawLab at Northeastern University School of Law, an interdisciplinary innovation laboratory working to merge creative arts and law to create new models of legal empowerment. Dan is a 1997 graduate of Northeastern Law and a 1990 graduate of Northwestern University. Following a postgraduate clerkship with The Hon. Hugh H. Bownes at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Dan worked for 13 years with the law firm of Bingham McCutchen, ultimately serving as the firm’s director of attorney development after practicing in the employment law group. Prior to law school, Dan worked as a designer for theater. He continues to do so, most recently with the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival and The Provincetown Theater.
Quinten Steenhuis, Clinical Fellow Suffolk University Law School
Quinten Steenhuis is a clinical fellow at Suffolk Univeristy Law School in their Legal Innovation and Technology Lab. Quinten has practiced housing and eviction defense law since 2008, and has been a professional programmer and web application developer since 2001. He speaks at area law schools and blogs frequently on the topic of legal technology. He works on projects addressing social justice and access to justice with technology focusing on the topic of housing and evictions. Quinten is an active member of his local community, serving as an appointed member of the City of Cambridge's Recycling Advisory Committee, serving on the Access to Justice Commission's working group on housing through the Justice for All initiative, founding a neighborhood political action group, and serving as the long-time president of a Scrabble club in Somerville, MA. He received his B.Sc. in Logic and Computation with an additional B.Sc. in Political Science from Carnegie Mellon University and J.D. from Cornell Law School.
Bryce is a clinical fellow with the Suffolk LIT Lab, working on e-filing and developing usable, easy-to-make court forms. Bryce graduated from Rice University with a dual BS in Computer Science and BA in Visual and Dramatic Arts in 2017, and with a MS in Computer Science in 2018, working in the KavrakiLab. He previously worked at Realtime Robotics as a Motion Planning Software Engineer, and was a Political Data Fellow with Bluebonnet Data, organizing data and technology efforts on downballot campaigns. He is active in dotbike, a biking advocacy group in Dorchester, and Code for Boston.
Alphabetical List (Student Presenters)
Grace Barlow Enchill, LIT Fellow
Grace Barlow Enchill is a mom and law student in Suffolk University Law School's Accelerated JD program. Grace joined the LIT Lab as a clinical fellow from the Accelerator Practice. Suffolk's Accelerator to Practice program (A2P) leverages legal technology in small firm practice to provide cost-effective legal services.
Grace earned a BA and MA in French from Bryn Mawr College and taught French for several years before law school. Grace is eager to apply her skills from the LIT Lab and A2P in her practice at Heller & Robbins PC after graduation.
Thomas (“Tommy”) Levu is a third-year law student in the Health and Biomedical Law concentration at Suffolk University Law School. Tommy joined the LIT Lab as a part of the Health Law Clinic to improve access to justice and healthcare through the use of technology. He will be pursuing a master’s degree in Health System Administration at Georgetown University where he will continue a career dedicated to narrowing the gaps in access, quality, and affordability of medical care.
Matthew Patalano is a law student in Suffolk University Law School's Defenders Program. Matthew has worked to represent client’s in Boston’s criminal courts and has developed several projects to improve the Suffolk Defenders’ ability to advocate for their clients. Matthew is excited to clerk with Justice Maureen Walsh of the Massachusetts Appeals Court after graduation and will be looking to apply the skills he developed from the LIT Lab by practicing criminal law in locally.
Aubrie is a third-year day student in the Juvenile Defenders Clinic where she works as a student attorney and LIT Fellow. Aubrie joined the LIT Lab in May 2020 as a student volunteer with The Document Assembly Line and has continued to contribute to the project in various roles since. Aubrie participated on the winning team for the 2020 Legal Design Challenge and was honored as one of National Jurist’s Law Students of the Year, recognizing her student contributions to the LIT Lab. Aubrie hopes to continue a career dedicated to providing access to justice work after graduation.
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