Chai R. Feldblum, Director

     Chai Rachel Feldblum is a Professor of Law and Director of the Federal Legislation Clinic at GeorgetownUniversityLawCenter in Washington, D.C., where she coined the phrase and teaches the role of the “legislative lawyer.” Professor Feldblum graduated from HarvardLawSchool in 1985, clerked for Judge Frank M. Coffin on the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court. She served as the lead lawyer drafting the Americans with Disabilities Act from 1988-1990 and joined the GeorgetownUniversityLawCenter faculty in 1991. A leading lawyer, scholar and speaker on gay and lesbian rights, disability rights, and health and welfare issues, Professor Feldblum has been actively involved in federal civil rights and social welfare legislative issues since 1988. Her efforts have included opposing or shaping legislative and regulatory initiatives on gay rights, AIDS, disability, and health care; serving as the lead drafter of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and most recently, helping to develop employment policy changes to advance workplace flexibility. Professor Feldblum’s latest articles are Rectifying the Tilt: Equality Lessons from Religion, Disability, Sexual Orientation and Transgender, published in the University of Maine Law review as the Tenth Annual Coffin Lecture, and The Art of Legislative Lawyering and the Six Circles of Legislative Advocacy.

James F. Flug, Visiting Professor & Acting Director

     James F. Flug is Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Acting Director of the Federal Legislation Clinic at Georgetown Law Center for 2008.

     During 2006-07, he was a Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, and Lecturer on Law, Covington & Burling Distinguished Visitor, and Senior Heyman Fellow in Residence, Office of Public Interest Advising, at Harvard Law School, teaching “Constitutional Lawyering in the U.S. Senate,” and a clinical course in “The Government Lawyer.” 

     A 1963 graduate of Harvard Law School, he clerked for D.C. Circuit Chief Judge David Bazelon, was Legal Assistant to Assistant Attorney General (Tax) Louis Oberdorfer, Confidential Assistant to Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and Legislative Assistant and Chief Counsel to Senator Edward Kennedy (1967-73 & 2003-06). As Executive Director of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association, he was a leader in the passage of the 1974 Legal Services Corporation Act, and as Director/Counsel of “Energy Action,” he led legislative and administrative efforts on natural gas deregulation, oil company divestiture, offshore oil leasing, and the Fairness Doctrine. For over 20 years, he was a “private public-interest” lawyer and lobbyist, representing the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry on the historic 1984 Hatch-Waxman Drug Price Competition Act, and serving as special counsel to many states in administrative, judicial, and legislative proceedings to recover billions of dollars of oil overcharges. In 1974, then-Chairman Antonin Scalia appointed Flug to the U.S. Administrative Conference.

Heather Sawyer, Adjunct Professor

     Heather Sawyer is a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and the Federal Legislation Clinic. She is responsible for achieving the Clinic’s dual mission – providing quality legal services to its clients, Workplace Flexibility 2010 and Catholic Charities USA, and providing Georgetown law students with the training, supervision, and field experience necessary for them to become effective legislative lawyers.

     Prior to joining the Clinic, Sawyer was Senior Counsel for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in its Midwest Regional Office in Chicago, Illinois. In her nine years at Lambda, Professor Sawyer fought for meaningful protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workers and their families, and for safer learning environments for gay youth and school personnel. Before that, Sawyer practiced employment law at the Chicago law firm of Schiff Hardin & Waite. In addition, Sawyer has taught at NorthwesternLawSchool and Loyola University-Chicago’s Institute of Human Resources and Industrial Relations.

     Heather Sawyer is a graduate of DartmouthCollege and the University of Chicago Law School.

Loretta C. Moss, Executive Assistant

Loretta C. Moss has been the Clinic's Executive Assistant and Office Manager since 1996. From 1970 to 1974, Ms. Moss was the Law Center's first Assistant Coordinator for the Clerkship Committee chaired by Professor Sherman Cohn. From 1974 to 1977, Ms. Moss was a legal secretary for the law firm Fulbright & Jaworski. From 1977 to 1980, Ms. Moss returned to the Law Center to work for the National Street Law Institute. In 1980, Ms. Moss began working as the secretary to the Director of the National Caucus & Center on Black Aged, Inc. In 1981, Ms. Moss was promoted to Administrative Assistant and Program Coordinator for the agency's Victim Witness Assistance Program where she facilitated all phases of chapter development and victim witness services. Ms. Moss returned to the Law Center in 1982 as an Administrative Assistant working with the Assistant Dean to coordinate the Law Center graduation ceremony, the United Way/CHA Campaign, and the faculty retreat. From 1989 to 1996, Ms. Moss was the Executive Assistant for the D.C. Street Law Project where she supervised work study students and facilitated student interaction with the Director, Fellows and mentor law firms. Ms. Moss attended Compton Junior College in Los Angeles, CA (1963-64) and Wiley College in Marshall, TX (1964-66). She received her business training from Draughn's Business College in Wichita Falls, TX (1969-70).