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GBLS Announces Lead Attorneys Monica Halas, James "Mac" McCreight, Pauline Quirion, and John Willshire Carrera have been selected as the first Greater Boston Legal Services* Lead Attorneys. Lead Attorney is a new position at GBLS in recognition of leadership in advocacy over an extended period of time. Each Lead Attorney will take on new program-wide responsibilities in the areas of legislative advocacy, affirmative litigation, appellate advocacy, and program-wide immigration issues. Monica Halas will lend her expertise to legislative advocacy. She has close to 30 years of legal services experience at GBLS in employment-related matters and is responsible for GBLS' employment work. This includes class litigation on systemic issues affecting the unemployed, legislative and administrative advocacy, and supervising case handlers on individual case representation. She joined GBLS in 1978. James "Mac" McCreight will have program-wide responsibility for major affirmative litigation. Mac is a nationally-recognized public housing expert. He has been advocating for low-income clients dealing with housing and homelessness issues for over 27 years, focusing on public housing, Section 8 issues as well as rent control matters. He joined GBLS in 1982. Pauline Quirion will have program-wide responsibility for appellate advocacy. She has practiced for 27 years and is well known for her work in the area of domestic violence and family law. She was also selected to head the new GBLS Re-Entry Project which aims to reduce barriers to employment and other opportunities denied to people with criminal records. She joined GBLS in 1997 after working at Cambridge & Somerville Legal Services and Merrimack Valley Legal Services. John Willshire Carrera will have program-wide responsibility for immigration issues. An immigration law and human rights expert, he has practiced for over 20 years. He is also a clinical supervisor of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic where he has served as instructor in asylum and human rights for over 16 years. He joined GBLS in 1997 after working at Cambridge & Somerville Legal Services since 1988. |