Sedgwick,
ME
Anne N. Schroth, clinical professor of law, was a staff attorney with Ayuda, Inc., in Washington, DC, representing immigrant and refugee victims of domestic violence, before coming to the law school in 1997. She developed the Poverty Law Clinic and joined the Michigan Clinical Law Program faculty in 1998. Professor Schroth is the principal faculty liaison to the Michigan Poverty Law Program, Michigan's legal services state-supported office that is jointly operated by the law school and Legal Services of South Central Michigan. In 2004, Professor Schroth started the Pediatric Advocacy Initiative at the law school, a medical-legal collaborative designed to provide legal advocacy to low-income patients and families through partnerships with health clinics. She served as a student attorney and executive director of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau while earning her J.D. at Harvard Law School. She then clerked for the Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York and practiced as an associate with Bernabei & Katz in Washington, D.C. Professor Schroth is a member of the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, the executive committee of the University of Michigan Interdisciplinary Research Project on Violence Across the Lifespan, the Washtenaw County Bar Association Women Lawyers Section, the Clinical Legal Education Association, and the American Association of Law Schools, Clinical Section.
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