Peninsula Legal Aid Center Staff Attorney

After graduating from law school, Marie took the Virginia Bar and started a
public interest law position with legal aid within two (2) weeks of passing
the Bar. Initially, she lived on the Eastern Shore as a legal aid attorney and
then also worked in the Williamsburg and Hampton Offices of the Peninsula
Legal Aid Center, now known at the Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia.
Marie started as a young attorney in the areas of drafting wills, representing
tenants in landlord-tenant issues, representing those seeking Social
Security disability benefits as well as helping the victims of domestic
violence. As a young attorney, she would go to whichever legal aid office
needed help and this gave her the opportunity to practice in many different
courts.
In addition, while working at the Peninsula Legal Aid Center, Marie was
also asked to become an instructor of continuing legal education (CLE)
courses on Orders of Protection and Domestic Violence Issues. She was
able, while a legal aid attorney, to lecture to other attorneys on these
issues. Marie was also asked to become a member of the Board of
Directors for Avalon: A Shelter for Women and Children. She later served
as the Vice President and then President of the Avalon Board of Directors.