{"id":806,"date":"2017-07-10T11:31:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/clinics\/appellate-courts-immersion-clinic\/staffcontact-us\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:34:49","slug":"faculty-staff-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/clinics\/our-clinics\/appellate-courts-immersion-clinic\/faculty-staff-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic Faculty &amp; Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Clinic Director<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/faculty\/brian-wolfman\/\">Professor Wolfman<\/a><\/strong> re-joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 2016 as the Director of the new full-time, semester-long Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic. He was previously a Professor of the Practice of Law and Co-Director of Stanford Law School&#8217;s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. Before that, from 2009 to 2014, Professor Wolfman served as Director of the Civil Rights section of Georgetown Law&#8217;s Institute for Public Representation, a student clinic that handles complex trial court and appellate litigation focused on civil rights and other public-interest litigation. While at Georgetown, he also taught the standard doctrinal course on Federal Courts and the Federal System and a course on appellate courts. Before Georgetown, he spent nearly 20 years at the national public interest law firm Public Citizen Litigation Group, serving the last five years as the Group&#8217;s Director. Earlier in his career, he conducted trial and appellate litigation as a staff lawyer at a rural poverty law program in Arkansas. Professor Wolfman has handled a broad range of litigation, including cases involving health and safety regulation, class action governance, court-access issues, federal preemption, consumer law, public-benefits law, and government transparency. He has argued six cases before the Supreme Court (winning five), and he has litigated hundreds of cases before federal and state appellate and trial courts around the country. He directed Public Citizen&#8217;s Supreme Court Assistance Project, which helps &#8220;underdog&#8221; public-interest clients litigate before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has testified before Congress and federal rules committees on a range of issues, and he was an Advisor to the American Law Institute&#8217;s Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation. Since 2004, he has taught an intensive Appellate Courts Workshop during the January Term at Harvard Law School. Professor Wolfman has authored articles on a variety of subjects, often on the intersection of state tort law and federal preemption doctrine and on class actions. You can find Professor Wolfman&#8217;s resume <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Brian-Wolfman-Resume-December-2021.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Clinic Fellows<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Becca Steinberg<\/strong> is originally from St. Louis and graduated from Yale Law School in 2020. During law school, she participated in two clinics\u2014the Reproductive Rights and Justice Project and the Educational Opportunity and Juvenile Justice Clinic. After graduating, she served as the Access to Justice fellow at DC Legal Aid before clerking for the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Honorable Keith P. Ellison of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before law school, she was a middle school English teacher in the Mississippi Delta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/07\/Bodaken-Alex.pdf\"><strong>Alex Bodaken<\/strong><\/a> is originally from Silver Spring, Maryland and graduated from Georgetown Law in 2021, where he was a student-attorney in the Appellate Litigation Clinic. After graduating, he served as litigation fellow at Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, where he briefed cases in the federal courts of appeal and the Supreme Court. He then clerked for the Honorable Gregory H. Woods of the Southern District of New York and the Honorable Jane B. Stranch of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Before returning to Georgetown Law, Alex was an associate in the plaintiff-side antitrust practice of Cohen Milstein Sellers &amp; Toll PLLC, where he represented individuals and businesses seeking relief for corporate misconduct; his pro bono practice included defending the rights of unaccompanied immigrant minors and civil servants. In his free time, Alex enjoys running, nervously watching Baltimore Orioles games, and balancing a love of croissants with Type 1 diabetes.<\/p>\n<h2>Clinic Manager<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Niko Perazich <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinic Director Professor Wolfman re-joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 2016 as the Director of the new full-time, semester-long Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic. 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