There are three new adjunct instructors teaching in the clinical program. Judge Lee Hand Elkins will teach a section of the Judicial Clerkship Internship seminar. Judge Elkins, who now sits in Brooklyn Family Court, previously sat in the NYC Criminal Court. Prior to being named to the bench, Judge Elkins was law clerk to the late Justice Harold P. Rothwax, and had been a staff attorney in both the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society and in the Office of the Special Prosecutor. Two new adjuncts will be teaching the Prosecutors Clinic: US Attorney, EDNY Clinic. Carolyn Pokorny, a 1994 BLS grad, joined the US Attorney's Office in 1999 after working as an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx and clerking for Judge Arthur D. Spatt of the EDNY. Teaching with her is Eric T. Chaffin who, before joining the US Attorney's Office in 1999, was an associate at Reed Smith LLP in Pittsburgh, PA in its litigation department, and before that was a law clerk to the Honorable D. Brooks Smith of the United States District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania.

Last June, two other new instructors joined the clinics: Donna Lee and Andrea Spratt. Ms. Lee most recently taught in the Lawyering Progam at NYU School of Law, and is teaching in the Federal Litigation Clinic. Before teaching at NYU, she worked at the ACLU National Prison Project in Washington and at the Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit of the Legal Aid Society in NYC. After graduating from NYU School of Law in 1991, Professor Lee clerked first for the Honorable Anne E. Thompson, USDC for the District of New Jersey and then for the Honorable Richard L. Nygaard, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Joining the Elderlaw Clinic as a staff attorney and instructor is Andrea Spratt who worked for the past five years at New York Legal Aissistance Group, and while at law school at St. John's University, interned at Legal Services for the Elderly in Queens. Finally, in addition to our new instructors, Mariam Mahmood will be working as a part-time attorney in the Elderlaw Clinic for one year on a grant from the Manhattan Borough President. Most recently, Ms. Mahmood worked at the Consumer Law Unit of the Legal Aid Society.