Clinic Faculty & Staff

Llezlie Green

Director, Professor of Law

Llezlie Green is a Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Justice Clinic. Professor Green was previously the Associate Dean for Experiential Education, Professor of Law, and Director of the Civil Advocacy Clinic at the American University Washington College of Law, where she also taught Critical Race Theory, Employment & Labor Law, and Advanced Civil Procedure. Her areas of expertise and scholarly interest include employment law, the intersection of workplace exploitation and immigration, critical race theory, critical race feminism, civil rights, and complex litigation in civil and human rights. Her most recent work considers the intersection of race, wage theft, and employment discrimination in low-wage worker communities. Her article, Wage Theft in Lawless Courts, was published in the California Law Review and won the American University Washington College of Law’s Pauline Ruyle Moore Scholar Award (2021). Her most recent article, Outsourcing Discrimination, appeared in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Her articles have also appeared in the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Harvard Latino Law Review, and the Howard Law Journal.

After receiving her undergraduate education at Dartmouth College with an A.B. in Government with honors, Professor Green obtained a Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and worked with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Following her graduation, she was a litigator at Wilmer Cutler and Pickering (now WilmerHale) and a law clerk for the Honorable Alexander Williams, Jr., United States District Judge for the District of Maryland. She then joined the Civil Rights and Employment Practice at Cohen Milstein Sellers and Toll, where she spent six years representing plaintiffs in class actions alleging employment, fair housing, and credit discrimination, as well as federal and state wage and hour law violations. Her work at Cohen Milstein included representing Native American ranchers and farmers in a landmark civil rights lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and representing African American homeowners in a post-Katrina housing discrimination suit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the State of Louisiana. She also represented groups of workers in collective action wage and hour cases in 22 jurisdictions.

Professor Green has served as an Associate Trustee with the Washington Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Co-Chair of the ABA Labor and Employment Section’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Legal Profession.
She is a former Chair and a current Executive Committee Member of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Poverty Law Section and a member of the Executive Board of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA).

Omolara Bewaji Joseney

Clinical Teaching Fellow

Omolara Bewaji Joseney is a Clinical Teaching Fellow with the Civil Advocacy Clinic. She joins Georgetown from the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission, where she was an enforcement attorney for seven years. There, she led several enforcement investigations and litigation matters challenging deceptive business practices. Prior to joining the FTC, Omolara spent several years in private practice at Davis Polk as a litigator, and clerked for the Honorable Margo K. Brodie in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Omolara received her B.A. from Boston College, and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as an editor for the Columbia Law Review.

Sameera Mangena             

Clinical Teaching Fellow

Sameera is a supervising attorney and clinical teaching fellow with the Civil Justice Clinic. Before joining the clinic, Sameera spent several years representing labor unions and workers. She most recently practiced as a field attorney with the National Treasury Employees Union (a labor union representing federal workers), where she represented the union and individual federal workers in cases involving a range of labor and employment issues, including unfair labor practices, bargaining impasses, and workplace discrimination. In addition, Sameera worked closely with local NTEU chapters to administer elections, identify and train worker leaders, and negotiate conditions of employment. Sameera was herself represented by a union while employed with NTEU, the Independent Staff Union, and she participated in her union as a member, a steward, and ISU Organizing Committee member.

Prior to NTEU, Sameera was a legal fellow at Oakland-based non-profit Worksafe, where she worked with unions, worker centers, legal services organizations, and other community advocates on workplace safety issues impacting low-wage workers.

Sameera received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She is also originally from Kentucky, a very amateur tennis player, and currently attempts to mend and sew clothes in her free time.

Niko Perazich

Clinic Manager

Niko is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the clinic. Prior to Georgetown Niko worked at various DC-area law firms as a paralegal. Niko is a graduate of Middlebury College and is married with two young children.