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Our Staff
Executive
Director
Richard C.
Goemann
Executive Director; B.S. New York
University of Social Work; J.D. New York
University School of Law; LL.M. Georgetown
University Law Center
Richard C. Goemann joined the D.C. Law
Students in Court Program, Inc. in April
2010 as its Executive Director. Most
recently, Mr. Goemann served as the
director of Defender Legal Services for
the National Legal Aid & Defender
Association and was an Assistant Federal
Public Defender for the Eastern District
of Virginia. Shortly after completing a
Prettyman Fellowship at Georgetown, Rich,
in a rather prescient move, began his
career in public defense as a staff
attorney in the criminal division at
DCLSIC. He then moved to Virginia as
an assistant and senior assistant public
defender in Alexandria before being
appointed Public Defender for the City and
County of Fairfax. Later, Rich
served as Deputy and then Executive
director of Virginia’s Public Defender
Commission and Executive Director for the
PDC’s successor agency, the Virginia
Indigent Defense Commission. Rich is
thrilled and honored to be back at DCLSIC.
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Non-legal
Staff
Linda
A. Brooks
Office Manager
For 12 years,
Mrs. Brooks has been the face of
DCLSIC. She greets all with a warm
smile and offers a helping hand. She
is truly the glue that holds
everyone together. She attended East
State Tennessee University in
Johnson City, TN and worked for the
US Navy as Civilian Recruiter prior
to joining the DCLSIC family.
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Wing C. Li
Administrative
Director;
B.A. University of California,
Los Angeles
Wing Li joined
D.C. Law Students In Court Program,
Inc. in August 2008 as its
Administrative Director. Prior to
coming to D.C., she was the Office
Manager for Hargreaves Associates, a
landscape architectural firm based
in San Francisco. She was also a
Human Resource Specialist for
Barclays Global Investors, an asset
management firm in San Francisco.
Previously she was an Online Product
Support Coordinator for Google, Inc.
and a Native English Instructor in
Japan. Ms. Li is fluent in Cantonese
and Japanese. She received a B.A. in
Political Science at UCLA.
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Civil Division
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Dorene M.
Haney
Adjunct Professor, Supervising Attorney;
B.A. University of Virginia, J.D.
Georgetown University Law Center.
Ms. Haney has been a Civil Division
Supervising Attorney since 1998,
supervising students in bench and jury
trials in D.C. Superior Court, Landlord
and Tenant and Small Claims Courts, the
Court of Appeals and before
administrative agencies in the District
of Columbia, and teaching civil trial
practice. Before joining
LSIC, Ms. Haney tried cases and handled
appeals in private civil practice in
State and Federal Courts in California
and the DC area. She is a
1982 graduate of the Georgetown
University Law Center where she served
as a Staff Editor for Law and Policy in
International Business and participated
in the Street Law program. She currently
serves on the Landlord-Tenant Rules
Advisory Committee, and is Co-Chair of
the Steering Committee for the Courts,
Lawyers and Administration of Justice
Section of the DC Bar.
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Ara D.
Parker
Adjunct Professor,
Supervising Attorney; B.A. University
of Central Florida; J.D. Howard
University School of Law.
Ara Parker joined the
Civil Division as a Supervising
Attorney in early June 2009. Ara
is a LSIC alumna, having
participated in the program in
2003-2004 when she was a law
student at Howard University
School of Law. She brings an
extensive litigation background
to the position, having been a
Staff Counsel at GEICO for two
years and in private practice
for a couple of years after
that. Her private practice
focused on family law, estate
planning and personal injury
matters and she has taken on
many pro bono and reduced fee
cases in the landlord tenant
area as well. Her interest in
teaching and her desire to work
in a public service setting
brings her back to LSIC.
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Brandee
A.D. Pettus
Adjunct Professor,
Supervising Attorney; B.A. University
of Maryland; J.D. Howard University
School of Law
Ms.
Pettus joined LSIC in August of 2009.
Prior to joining LSIC, Ms. Pettus was in
private practice as a solo practitioner
in Maryland and the District of
Columbia, handling primarily civil cases
such as real estate and domestic
matters. She is a mock trial
coach at various high schools in
Maryland. She is also on the board of
Gabrielle’s Way, a non-profit
organization geared toward the positive
development of minority females in the
Greater Washington Metropolitan area.
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Criminal Division
Moses A.
Cook
Adjunct Professor, Supervising Attorney;
B.A. University of North Dakota, J.D.
Washington University School of Law,
LL.M. Georgetown University Law Center.
Mr. Cook completed a Prettyman/Stiller
Fellowship from Georgetown University
Law Center in 2005. He litigated
criminal cases, taught advocacy classes
and supervised third-year law students
in its Criminal Justice Clinic.
While in law school he clerked for both
the Missouri State and Federal Public
Defender in St. Louis, MO. He
graduated Washington University School
of Law in 2003. Mr. Cook
became a LSIC supervising attorney in
August 2005.
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