Project
Suffolk Law Clinical Program
Three years of clinical work. Client representation, civic legal tech that shipped to courts, and public-interest tooling.
For three years at Suffolk University Law School I worked across two sides of the clinical program: representing real clients as a Rule 3:03 student attorney, and building public-interest legal technology as a Legal Coder and LIT Fellow. The two sides informed each other. The technology I worked on came out of problems I and other clinicians ran into in actual practice.
Client representation
SJC Rule 3:03 Student Attorney (Aug 2022 – May 2023). I represented clients in guardianship petitions end to end: advocacy, negotiation, and case management. The work shaped how I think about legal technology now. When you've seen what a guardianship contest actually looks like for a family, you understand which automations help and which ones flatten the parts that need a human.
I also presented on guardianship alternatives to healthcare professionals, translating what we were seeing in the clinic into framing they could use upstream.
Civic legal tech
Clinical LIT Fellow, Summer LIT Fellow, and Legal Coder (May 2021 – May 2023). Three projects from this stretch:
Late Docketing Statement form, Massachusetts Appeals Court
An automated form for the Court's late-docketing process. Adopted by the Massachusetts Appeals Court and in production use. This is the clearest example I have of legal tech built inside a clinical program ending up actually used by a court system rather than living on a shelf.
WCAG audit tool
An assistive tool I built for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines audits, designed to make accessibility review tractable for clinicians and legal aid orgs that don't have dedicated a11y teams. I presented the recommendations from real audits run with the tool at LITCon '23, the national legal innovation and technology conference.
Jury instruction comparison, publicresource.org
A program comparing jury instructions across U.S. jurisdictions, built for publicresource.org. The comparison view makes it possible to see where states converge and diverge on instructions that go in front of real juries. Useful for researchers, public defenders, and anyone working on uniformity questions.
What it adds up to
The clinical experience is the through-line that explains how the rest of my work fits together. Direct representation grounded the doctrinal work. The civic legal tech projects taught me what it actually takes to ship legal technology into institutional use: courts, public-interest orgs, real workflows. That's what I do now at scale in the Advisory Tier work at Thomson Reuters.
Recognition along the way
Liberty Mutual Legal Design Challenge, second place (2022). Founding Member and Treasurer, Legal Innovation & Technology Student Association at Suffolk. VP, Suffolk Legal Podcast Club. Certified Legal Observer (2020–2023).