Meet CLASI volunteer attorney in Sussex County, Zita Dresner! I was motivated to become a legal aid advocate after serving as a nursing home volunteer for the DC Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program while working as an English Professor at the University of the District of Columbia. I took a leave of absence from UDC to attend what was then called…
Welcome CLASI Sussex County Staff Member, Tony Sierzega! Tony Sierzega earned his J.D. from the Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2018 and joined CLASI in September 2018 to fill a staff attorney position in Sussex County in both the Fair Housing and Disabilities Law Program. He is serving as a law clerk until he is (hopefully soon) admitted…
Meet DVLS Staff Attorney, Nicole Mozee! For as long as I can remember, I knew I wanted to be an attorney and help the public. My father was the lead plaintiff in an employment discrimination case that spanned nearly 20 years before he obtained justice. His story and admiration for his legal team and judge inspired me to follow in…
Meet CLASI attorney, Brian Eng! Brian S. Eng has been with CLASI since 2013. He is currently serving as the managing attorney for the Disabilities Law Program and also has responsibilities with CLASI’s manufactured housing rent justification cases. Brian, a graduate of the Widener University Delaware Law School (which had a different name at the time), had a circuitous path…
Meet CLASI attorney Marissa Band! I first came to CLASI in 2006 as an intern and they have not been able to get rid of me since! I began work with CLASI as an Equal Justice Works Fellow in 2008, and was hired as a staff attorney in 2010. I spent a number of years in CLASI’s Disabilities Law Program…