Legal Advocate

Senior Legal Advocate

PeachState Justice Alliance — Atlanta, Georgia

January 2024 – Present

• Engineered and deployed a comprehensive domestic violence legal advocacy framework that expanded crisis response capacities by 45% across a 5-county metropolitan jurisdiction.
• Reduced protective order filing delays by optimizing digital intake procedures inside Clio, shrinking average petition completion time from 6 hours down to 2.5 hours for 120+ monthly crisis victims.
• Drafted 85+ highly detailed statutory analysis memoranda and structured evidence packages for complex family law hearings, directly resulting in a 92% rate of secured permanent restraining orders.
• Partnered with county victim assistance programs to triage and manage a continuous personal case caseload of 65 open files, maintaining zero procedural deadlines missed over a 24-month operational period.
• Delivered educational testimony and technical compliance insights to 14 state legislative committees regarding victim compensation bottlenecks, leading to a 15% budget increase for local emergency legal aid funds.

Family Law & Housing Advocate

Metro Atlanta Legal Aid Society — Atlanta, Georgia

September 2021 – December 2023

• Cultivated a coordinated community defense ecosystem by training 40 new volunteer advocates and paralegals in trauma-informed client interviewing techniques, expanding direct representation reach by 60%.
• Maintained active docket management for 180 tenant-landlord mediation hearings, successfully averting formal eviction actions in 88% of negotiated cases through structured settlement agreements.
• Researched municipal housing code violations using Westlaw and LexisNexis to build systematic evidentiary briefs, which forced property management groups to forfeit $165,000 in unlawful tenant fees.
• Analyzed systemic court access barriers using automated case tracking metrics, generating quarterly insight reports that prompted local family courts to establish 2 new satellite self-help kiosks.
• Led a collaborative cross-functional initiative with regional municipal housing authorities to run 12 public legal education workshops, informing 1,100+ low-income residents of their statutory tenant rights.

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Case management software, Statutory research, Crisis intervention protocols, Alternative dispute resolution, Litigant intake optimization, Family court procedures, Eviction diversion tactics, Restitution tracking, Clio, Westlaw, LexisNexis, Microsoft Office 365, Slack, Zoom for Virtual Court, Legal writing, Community outreach, Trauma-informed communication

Municipal Protective Order Automation Initiative

- Role: Project lead and legal operations strategist.

- Stack/Tools: Clio, Google Workspace Automation, Typeform, Adobe Sign.

- Impact: Created an automated document assembly flow for emergency protective orders, cutting pro se document completion errors by 40% across 3 local family court jurisdictions.

Tenant Rights Eviction Diversion Toolkit

- Role: Primary content author and legal researcher.

- Stack/Tools: Canva, Westlaw, Georgia Statutory Database, Mailchimp.

- Impact: Designed a localized legal self-defense guide distributed to 4,500 residents facing summary eviction, lowering default judgments by 22% in targeted zip codes.

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