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Our clinic staff consists of two faculty members,
eight fellows, an investigations supervisor, an executive
assistant, and a receptionist.
John M. Copacino
Professor Copacino is Director
of the Criminal Justice Clinic and the E. Barrett
Prettyman graduate program in criminal trial practice.
Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, he was the
Director of the Juvenile Law Clinic at the Antioch
School of Law. He is a graduate of the University
of Virginia Law School and received an LL.M. from
the Law Center. He serves as trial counsel in numerous
criminal and post-conviction cases. In 1997, he received
the Law Center's Flegal Award for outstanding teaching.
He is active in local criminal justice organizations.
Abbe Smith
Professor Abbe Smith is Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic
and the E. Barrett Prettyman graduate program. She came to
Georgetown University Law Center in 1996. From 1990 to 1996,
she was Education Director and then Deputy Director of the
Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School, a clinical
instructor in the criminal defense clinic, and a lecturer
on law in the Trial Advocacy Workshop. From 1982 to 1990,
Professor Smith was a trial attorney at the Defender Association
of Philadelphia. Professor Smith has practiced criminal law
in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, and Maryland. She
has taught criminal law, criminal procedure, and trial advocacy
at American University's Washington College of Law, Temple
University School of Law, and City University New York School
of Law. She is the author of articles on feminism and criminal
defense, clinical legal education, criminal law, juvenile
justice, and public defenders. Professor Smith is active in
the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers
Guild. She is also a published cartoonist.
Rebecca O'Brien
Rebecca is the Investigations Supervisor
for the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Clinics and
the Director of the Investigative Internship Program.
She received her B.A. from DePaul University. Prior
to joining the clinic staff, she worked as a professional
investigator, primarily on Felony 1 cases for criminal
defense attorneys in Virginia, Maryland and D.C at
both the Federal and local levels. Rebecca is an active
member of the American Civil Liberties Union, the
National Legal Aid Defender Association and the National
Defense Investigators Association. Rebecca volunteers
her time by conducting seminars in investigation for
local investigators, law firms and innocence projects.
She is an alumnus of the Investigative Internship
Program.
Lindsay Dressler
Lindsay is the interim Investigations Supervisor. She supervises the Investigative Internship Program in coordination with Rebecca O’Brien. Lindsay received two B.A. degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently working on her Juris Doctor degree at the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. Prior to joining the clinic staff, Lindsay spent two and a half years working in the national security sector, conducting background investigations for the United States Office of Personnel Management. Lindsay also has several years of experience working as a professional investigator for defense attorneys in Maryland and D.C. She is an alumnus of the Investigative Internship Program.
Teruko Scriven
Teruko R. Scriven is the Executive Assistant for the Criminal
Justice Clinic. She handles all administrative matters necessary
to ensure an efficient work flow. Prior to joining our staff
in March, 1982, Teruko worked with the Law Offices of Mitchell,
Shorter & Gartrell.
Carrie Ellis
Carrie graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997 and received her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2006. Prior to law school, Carrie worked at the International Foundation for Election Systems and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Moldova. During law school, Carrie participated in the Community Defense Externship with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and the Prisoners and Families Clinic. During her summers, she worked for the Center for Legal Assistance to Prisoners in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.
Laura Fernandez
Laura received an A.B. in literature from Harvard College in 1998 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2002. While in law school, Laura worked with indigent clients in the immigration clinic and the capital defense seminar, and participated in the Greenhaven Prison Project. From 2002 to 2004, Laura was a Chesterfield Smith fellow at Holland & Knight and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Criminal Justice Project. After the completion of her fellowship, she clerked for the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael graduated from American University in 1999 and received his J.D. from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2006. Prior to law school, he worked as a staff investigator at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS). During law school, Michael interned at the Innocence Project New Orleans, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., and PDS. He also represented individuals charged with misdemeanor offenses in Queens Criminal Court, N.Y., and prisoners on re-sentencing applications after reforms to New York’s “Rockefeller Drug Laws.”
Ji Seon Song
Ji Seon graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1999 with degrees in Music and East Asian Studies, and received her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2004. Before she went to law school, Ji Seon worked as a paralegal at the Federal Defenders of New York. During law school, Ji Seon interned at the Immigration Unit of the Legal Aid Society, Sanctuary for Families, Beldock, Levine & Hoffman LLC, and the National Office of the ACLU. Also during law school, Ji Seon represented clients through Columbia’s Criminal Practice Clinic and the Prisoners and Families Clinic. Ji Seon spent her law school summers working for a legal aid organization in Kenya, the Unrepresented Condemned Inmate Project at the California Appellate Project, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Before coming to Georgetown, Ji Seon was a law clerk to the Honorable Deborah A. Batts, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Tara Curtis
Tara received her B.A. in human communication studies, with a concentration in legal communications, from Howard University in 2003, and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2006. While in law school, Tara participated in the Criminal Justice Institute where she represented indigent adult and juvenile clients in the Roxbury and Dorchester district court divisions of the Boston Municipal Court. During the summer after her first year of law school, Tara worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. As a scholarship recipient in the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) Earl Warren Legal Training Program, during the summer after her second year of law school, Tara worked at Shearman & Sterling LLP and in the voter protection practice area at LDF. After law school, Tara clerked for the Honorable Richard W. Roberts in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Mark Loudon-Brown
Mark received a B.A. in philosophy from The Ohio State University in 2003 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2007. Following his first year of law school, Mark interned at the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, an organization dedicated to protecting the rights of prisoners and former offenders. He spent the summer after his second year at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. During his final semester of law school, Mark participated in the Alabama Capital Defender Clinic, representing death row clients in Alabama.
Andrew Stanner
Andrew graduated from Georgetown University in 1999, and received his J.D. from New York University in 2006. Prior to law school, he spent two years as a high school teacher in Chicago, followed by a year and a half teaching in Peru. While at NYU, Andrew spent summers at the Children’s Defense Fund, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. As a clinic student, he represented clients in both the Juvenile Rights and Criminal Defense divisions of the Legal Aid Society of New York. Before coming to the Law Center, Andrew spent a year in Austin, Texas, where he clerked for the Honorable Fortunato P. Benavides, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Stephanie Snyder
Stephanie graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1999 and received her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2006. Prior to law school, Stephanie worked at a daytime drop-in center for people with HIV/AIDS and as a benefits advocate at a legal aid organization specifically geared towards working with homeless people with mental health issues. During law school, Stephanie participated in the Family Advocacy Clinic and the Criminal Justice Clinic, and also interned at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, the Alexandria Public Defender's Office, and in both the trial and mental health divisions of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Prior to returning to Georgetown, Stephanie clerked for the Honorable J. Michael Ryan on the D.C. Superior Court.
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