Class of 2007-08 Legal Aid Society of DC 1331 H Street NW, Suite 350 Washington, DC 20005 Work Phone: (202) 386-6667 Email: stroyer@legalaiddc.org

Profile:

Stephanie received her JD from Georgetown University Law Center and served as a family law clerk for the Honorable Alan Hertzberg in Pittsburgh, drafting opinions and orders and working on child support and custody matters. She then worked as an Assistant Public Defender in Allegheny County, and later joined the Legal Aid Society of DC as a Family Law and Domestic Violence Staff Attorney. At Legal Aid, she handled civil protection orders for survivors of domestic violence and general family law cases. Prior to law school, Stephanie worked at the Center for Reproductive Rights on state, national, and international issues relating to reproductive health and women’s equality.

Stephanie completed her Fellowship with the Legal Aid Society Family and Domestic Violence Unit, providing invaluable direct legal services to her clients in a number of areas, including protecting her clients from violent abusers by filing for Civil Protection Orders and representing clients in complicated child custody and child support cases.  Stephanie also facilitated a training for Assistant Attorneys General at the U.S. Department of Justice as part of their pro bono program, instructing them on how to handle child support cases.  She subsequently referred child support cases to them and helped supervise these matters.  She also supervised child support cases that local firms undertook as part of their pro bono programs.  Stephanie was selected to participate in an intensive, seven-day trial advocacy skills training at the Georgetown University Law Center through its Continuing Legal Education program and co-sponsored by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA).

Stephanie recently began work as Legislative Counsel with the National Abortion Federation.