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-McCarthy, Meghan
-McCathy, Couch Aden
-McDonald, Aya
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-Morris, Robin
-Moore, Nicole
-Marcus, Susan
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Atty. Sylvia Clute
Richmond, VA
Author of Beyond Vengeance, Beyond Duality and one of the world's foremost advocates and practitioners of "Unitive Justice". Clute is a former trial attorney and holds an M.A. in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law, and an M.A. in Public Administration from the University of California.
Perry Saidman
Washington, DC
Perry has degrees in both electrical engineering and law, both from the George Washington University. He has been in the private practice of patent law for many years, and is today generally recognized as a leading advocate for U.S. design patent protection. He has been a PISLAP member since its founding in 1996, and a long-time member of its Executive Committee.
Nanette Schorr
QUEENS, ny
Nanette has been deeply involved in the development of PISLAP since its inception as the Task Force on Law and Meaning in 1996. She worked closely with co-founder Peter Gabel to launch and sustain the organization. She is currently the director of the Education Law Unit at Bronx Legal Services, where she has for decades represented low income people in the borough of the Bronx.
Jonathan Scharrer
Madison, WI
Director of the Restorative Justice Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Frank J. Remington Center. He has extensive experience as a facilitator of victim-offender dialogues in sensitive and serious crimes and as a trainer in a variety of restorative justice practices. Jonathan is active in examining criminal justice policy–with a focus on victim-empowerment and addressing racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
Elaine Quinn
Longford, Ireland
Elaine Quinn is an experienced senior lawyer from Ireland having worked in major law firms in London and Sydney specialising in dispute resolution and insurance. She is the founding editor of The Conscious Lawyer online magazine, and passionately interested in subjects such as the integration of contemplative practice into law practice and legal education, and the rising voice of the feminine in law.
Hon. Bruce Peterson
Minneapolis, MN
Peterson received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1972 and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1978. Peterson began his legal career in 1978 as a law clerk for the Minnesota Supreme Court. The following year, he was a special assistant to the deputy assistant attorney general. In 1980, he became an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Deborah Nall
Chicago, IL
Debbie joined Legal Council in January 2022 as a staff attorney in the HIV/AIDS program. Prior to joining Legal Council, she worked for one year as a Supervisory Attorney for Legal Aid Chicago’s HIV Legal Project. In that role, she helped clients obtain and maintain access to public benefits including Medicaid, SNAP, and Social Security benefits.
Ann Freedman
Philadelphia, pa
Specializes in family law, particularly domestic violence, and sex discrimination issues and is the co-founder of the Women’s Law Project, a public interest law firm in Philadelphia. She’s active with the Domestic Violence Clinic and pro bono Domestic Violence Program at Rutgers Law.
Bradley Roth
New York, NY
Attorney, mediator, and adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He co-founded and chairs Mediators Beyond Borders International New York (MBBI-NY) and is an active member of the MBBI United Nations Multilateral Working Group.
Ross Brockway
Atlanta, Ga
rbrockway@jd18.law.harvard.edu
Ross represented low-income people in child support proceedings, and advocate for child support reform, in order to end cycles of incarceration, impoverishment, and forceful separation of families. Federal law requires courts to assess parents.
Diane Fener
New York, NY
She was employed by The International Law Firm of Fulbright & Jaworksi on its litigation team. Diane Fener has thirty years of experience conducting trials before judges and juries. She has been recognized by Dateline NBC, The New York Times, and The Journal of The American Bar Association for her expertise in civil rights.
Lisle Baker
Boston, Ma
Before joining the faculty of Suffolk University Law School in 1973, he practiced law with the Boston firm of Hill & Barlow, as well as appeared on the Peabody Award-winning Public Broadcasting System (PBS) public debate series, The Advocates. Professor Baker has also been elected to twenty two-year terms on the Newton.
Susan Brooks
Bala Cynwyd, PA
Brooks is a pioneer in the emerging field of therapeutic jurisprudence, the study of how legal systems affect the emotions, behaviors and mental health of people. She is also an expert on experiential learning, family law and children’s rights. Brooks came to the law school from the faculty of the Vanderbilt University Law School.
Stu Webb
St. Louis Park, MN
In 1990, Minneapolis divorce attorney Stu Webb was burned out and ready to call it a day. He had been practicing family law for 26 years, and he was done with the adversarial nature of litigation. Stu had a plan to quit his law practice. Stu became the founding father of collaborative divorce.
Lyna Chon
Los angeles, CA
CRG has worked across over 50 cities and counties in California to provide solutions to over 100 receivers and counting. With experience in health and safety, hazmat abatement, judgment enforcement, and rents and profits receiverships, no other receiver in California offers the breadth and experience of CRG.
Isabel Nardon
LIsboa, Portugal
Customized Advocacy The office Isabel Nardon – Advocacia Customizada was founded by Isabel Danieli Nardon Siciliana, a lawyer registered with the Brazilian Bar Association and also with the Portuguese Bar Association, graduated in Law at PUC/RS, studying for a Master’s Degree in Tax and Financial Law at the University of Lisbon, and last but not least, in love with Portugal.
Jill Engle
State College, PA
Ms. Engle is a law professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Penn State Law. She acts as “of counsel” for the law firm. She assists with the law firm’s management and consults with the practicing attorneys on matters of family law, her main area of scholarship at Penn State Law.
Kim Vanderheiden
Oakland, CA
Vanderheiden is especially interested in the connections among beings, the underlying mysteries of those relationships, and the ways they turn up physically in the larger conflicts of our society. Her work is influenced by poetry, mythology, world cultures, religious writings, illuminated manuscripts, graffiti, cityscapesand activist art.
Femke Wijdekop
ALKMAAR, THE NETHERLANDS
fwijdekop@gmail.com
I am a lawyer, publicist and communicator, based in the Netherlands. In 2018 I became an Earth-centered Law expert at the United Nations Harmony with Nature Network. I am a member of the European Law Institute and of the European Forum for Restorative Justice’s Environmental Restorative Justice working group. I also assist authors in getting their books published with bookcoaching and editorial support.
Jenipher Jones
Denver, CO
Jenipher graduated from Bennett College for Women, with a B.A. in Political Science with honors. She then attended law school at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Member to the Executive Committee of the Project for Integrating Law, Spirituality, and Politics (PISLAP).
Chris Kanios
San Francisco, Ca
Currently holds the position of Professor of Law at JFK School of Law at National University. Served as Dean and Professor of Law at New College of California School of Law from 1985-2003. President of the Modern Greek Studies Foundation.
Twila Earle
austin, tx
Her husband was listed as a participant and she was listed as an observer (using the Travis County District Attorney's office address) for the Final Report by David R. Karp, Ph.D. titled, "Research Seminar on Community, Crime and Justice." The George Washington University Center for Communitarian Policy Studies.
Ann Marie Puente
palm beach, fl
Ann Marie Puente is a multidisciplinary professional, with backgrounds in political science, law, and strategic design. Prior to studying and working in the design industry in New York City and Germany, she worked as a litigation attorney in Florida and Washington D.C., in consumer protection and employment law, respectively.
MaryAnn Fry
Milwaukee, Wi
Fry is an Honours graduate of Thomas M. Cooley Law School, former trial attorney and adjunct professor. She's most recently worked in restorative justice programs, and tells her story where she is invited. Her Spiritual training took place in Mystery Schools in the United States.
KIm J. Wright
Alamance, NC
J. Kim Wright practices integrative law in Alamance County, North Carolina. Her law practice helps clients align their values and their legal documents. In 2023, she returned to law practice after fifteen years as a digital nomad, traveling around to knit together a network of innovative and conscious lawyers. She is a three-time American Bar Association author, co-creator of the Conscious Contracts process.
Marjorie Silver
Central Islip, NY
Professor Silver served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Joseph S. Lord III, Pennsylvania. She came to law teaching after a decade in the federal government, where, as Chief Regional Civil Rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Education, she enforced non-discrimination laws. Professor Silver has been an active member of the New York City Bar.
2020
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Maitreya Badami
San Francisco, Ca
Maitreya has spent 16 years in criminal defense, both as a deputy public defender and in private practice. She has litigated both trial and appellate cases, in California state and federal courts. She has been a panel attorney for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, litigating direct appeals and habeas corpus petitions.
Barry Lee
Dublin, Ireland
Barry worked as a corporate lawyer for over ten years (He qualified in Ireland, England & Wales and New York). Since then he trained as a mindfulness teacher, a yoga teacher and a psychotherapist. Mindfulness For Law, Nature in Mind, and the Mindfulness and Compassion Therapy Centre are among the organizations he founded in Ireland.
Joan Meier
Washington, DC
Meier is a Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the National Family Violence Law Center at the George Washington University Law School. Professor Meier has been a clinical law professor for 29 years at GW Law, where she founded three pioneering and nationally recognized interdisciplinary domestic violence clinical programs.
Duncan Hollomon
Alaska
Hollomon has been a psychotherapist for the past 25 years, integrating spiritual practice and mindfulness. Previously he was a professional actor/singer and attorney. Use of self, particularly as it involves alternative ways of knowing, has been a part of his work for many years. Duncan has taught theories and practices of psychotherapy for more than 7 years.
Jennifer Nedelsky
toronto, canada
Professor Nedelsky's teaching and scholarship have been concentrated on Feminist Theory, Legal Theory, American Constitutional History and Interpretation, and Comparative Constitutionalism. In 2000 she was awarded the Bora Laskin National Fellowship In Human Rights Research. Her most recent book, Law’s Relations: A Relational Theory of Self, Autonomy.
Rand Rosenblatt
Camden, NJ
Professor Rosenblatt teaches courses in Health Law, Constitutional Law, and Wealth, Democracy, and the Rule of Law. He was the lead co-author of the widely-used health law casebook Law and the American Health Care System (Foundation Press, 1997) and its Supplements, and is a co-author of its 2012 revised edition.
Lindsay Charles
Ontario, Canada
Lindsay regularly appears at the Superior Court of Justice and the License Appeal Tribunal. Lindsay has been co-counsel on a precedent-setting arbitration to restore denied benefits and on a precedent-setting motion to have a fraudulent conveyance action proceed concurrently with a personal injury action.
Caroline Voldstad
Salisbury, CT
Worked with the Domestic Violence and Family Court Programs to research legal issues related to the Center’s current family law programs and develop future publications. Assisted the director of the Parent Support Program at Kings County Family Court biweekly with child support programming
Kara Mccarthy Perry
Newark, Nj
karaperry@me.com
She facilitates clients through a conscious communication process to discover alignment, create a foundation for their relationship and navigate conflicts collaboratively and creatively. As an Affiliated Law Faculty at Quinnipiac University School of Law School, she teaches the process to law school students in the Negotiation Clinic. She is also a Well-Being Mentor to law students.
Amber Nicole TuRner
Gibraltar
Amber founded Gibraltar’s first Holistic Law Firm, Amber Law (2013). Qualified as a UK Barrister (1998), Mediator, Raja Yoga Teacher, and practising Mindfulness, Amber drew on her experience of 17 years in litigation and well-being tools, to create her unique model of Holistic Law Practice. Today she is a consultant, guest speaker at universities and conferences, writes, and designs training programs applying her Holistic Model- a humane, compassionate, and pioneering approach to law study and practice.
PARAMESWARAN KRISHNASAMY
Gujarat, India
kparameswaran@gnlu.ac.in
Pioneered full course on "Law, Religion, Spirituality & Justice" (LRSJ) & "Ethics Skills Development" (ESD) for Legal Profession.Certified as Master Trainer of NLP, CBT, SFBT, Integrated Hypnotherapy.Former Member - Governing Board, Auroville, Govt of India, World Commission on Environmental Law, International Consortium for Law & Religion.
Susan Marcus
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Susie has been practicing commercial litigation with an emphasis on insurance coverage and bad faith for nearly thirty years. Susie has worked both for insurance companies (in house) and as outside counsel, practicing litigation in both first and third-party insurance coverage and bad faith disputes. Susie has counseled insurers on best practices and on new legislation and its effects on best practices.
2021
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Salomon Zavala
venice, ca
Salomon is a counselor, a problem solver, and a winner. I have worked with him on various cases and was very impressed by his determination to win and skill to do it. His breadth of legal knowledge is truly vast. Anybody who retains the services of Salomon or his firm will certainly be in great hands.
Robert Koulish
Baltimore, MD
Director of MLaw Programs, administered through the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS). MLaw is a collaboration between UMCP and the UM Carey School of Law, driven by MPOWER. Koulish is Full Research Professor in BSOS and Lecturer at Law at the UMD Carey School of Law in Baltimore.
Anita Santiago
columbus, oh
Anita embarked on an ambitious career change. Realizing the need for more licensed mental health professionals, she completed the Clinical Mental Health Counseling graduate program at the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL). She was selected for 2015 Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.
Christopher Whittaker
Irvine, CA
Chris Whittaker is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and its Antitrust & Competition and Labor & Employment practice groups. Mr. Whittaker represents clients in a wide range of high-stakes, complex commercial cases, with an emphasis in antitrust and competition, technology.
2022
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Louisa McDonald
Las vegas, Nv
Her range of interest in both research and teaching includes modern and contemporary Japanese art, manga and anime; themes of violence in contemporary Japanese art, Japanese war art of WWII, the historical relationship between art and war, ethics and art, Japanese art and the West - historical.
Taier Perlman
Kingston, NY
Taier Perlman, Esq., is an evolving earthling committed to elevating the conditions of the status quo. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School (located in her hometown), Taier focused her studies on dispute resolution and legal counseling, working with diverse NYC-based start-ups. In an unconventional post-bar exam trip, she burst her big-city-centrism working on a biodiverse organic farm.
Annette Couch
west australia, australia
Annette practices as a solicitor in the areas of Family Law (Property Settlements), Criminal Law, Immigration Law, Administrative Law and Judicial Review, Contract Law and Defamation Law. Annette has negotiated for her clients through stressful legal matters so that their preferred outcomes were reached without litigation.
DONA CULLEN
Lake Oswego, OR
Dona Cullen is a seasoned attorney and mediator with over 40 years of experience guiding divorcing couples through separation and divorce using a collaborative, client-centric approach - empowering individuals to make informed decisions for their family without court battle. Whether drafting settlements or coaching resilience, her goal is complete resolution through clarity on legal/financial realities and alternative pathways, ensuring even consultations leave clients better equipped to discern wise next steps, handling formal filings seamlessly when ready.
Victor Narro
Los Angeles, CA
A nationally known expert on immigrant rights and workers’ rights, Victor is Project Director for the UCLA Labor Center and Core Faculty for the UCLA Labor Studies Department. Victor is also Core Faculty for the Public Interest Law and Policy Program at UCLA School of Law. Victor was formerly the Co-Executive Director of Sweatshop Watch. Prior to that, he was the Workers’ Rights Project Director for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA).
2023
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Molly J. Soeby
PRESTON, MN
Molly is the Program Director and Co-Instructor of the UJEd Whole School Program. Inspired by Sylvia Clute's book on unitive justice, Molly, a mother of five, is dedicated to addressing the impact of incarceration, particularly in the context of the opioid epidemic. She and her family, including two grandchildren whose parents are incarcerated, have experienced the flaws in the justice system firsthand. Working remotely from Preston, MN, she is committed to making a difference through her involvement with the Alliance for Unitive Justice.
Galen Trine-McMahan
Fort Collins, Co
My passion is helping people through difficult times and creating positive change. Growing up, I learned from my parents' examples of standing up for justice and living humbly. I received a law degree to advocate for important causes, and have represented clients against powerful corporations, learned from mistakes, and found creative solutions. Through experiences like drama training and volunteering, I've sought to understand people more fully and work for transformative justice.
Christine Evans
CHICAGO, IL
christine@sharedrootsmediation.com
Christine Evans is the founder and principal director of Shared Roots Mediation L3C in Chicago, Illinois. As a mediator and restorative justice practitioner, she is passionate about fostering positive connections and resolving conflicts through restorative and transformative approaches, with a particular focus on addressing sexual harm. With two decades of experience as a public interest attorney, Christine's expertise spans the United States and international arenas. Drawing from her knowledge of the criminal legal system, victims' and gender rights.
Rebecca Vallas
Charlottesville, VA
Rebecca Vallas is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Academy of Social Insurance. A former public benefits lawyer, and a student of psychosynthesis, she believes deeply in social insurance programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as an outer recognition of our interconnectedness. She is also a practicing astrologer, alchemist, and energy worker supporting lightworkers in a range of fields of practice.