Address
University of Houston Law Center
Clinical Legal Education Program
4604 Calhoun Road
Houston, TX 77204-6060
Directions to the UH Law Center
Location
Room 56, TU2 (Ground Floor)
Phone 713.743.2094
Fax 713.743.2195
Link to Clinic Faculty Biographies
Janet Heppard
Director, Clinical Legal Education Program
Director, Civil Practice Clinic
Associate Clinical Professor
Janet B. Beck
Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor, Immigration Clinic
Christopher Heard
Director, Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic
Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor
Geoffrey Hoffman
Director, Immigration Clinic
Associate Clinical Professor
Richard McElvaney
Director, Consumer Law Clinic
Director, Center for Consumer Law
Associate Clinical Professor
Ryan Marquez
Staff Attorney, Center for Consumer Law and
Texas Consumer Complaint Center
Staff Attorney, Consumer Dispute Resolution Course
Diane M. McManus
Clinical Supervising Attorney, Civil Practice Clinic
Josephine Sorgwe
Clinical Supervising Attorney, Immigration Clinic
Kristina Van Arsdel
Director, Externship Program
Adjunct Professor
Rosemary Vega
Contract Staff Attorney, Immigration Clinic
Tasha Willis
Director, Mediation Clinic
Director, ADR
Associate Clinical Professor
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Thelma M. Baines Thelma M. Baines is the Program Manager for the Clinical Legal Education Program. She earned her Paralegal Certificate from the University of Houston in 2005. Baines began working at the UH Law Center in 2005 as a legal secretary working closely with Professor Joseph A. Vail, founder and then director of the UH Immigration Clinic. She became the clinic Program Manager in 2007. Prior to coming to UH, Baines was a legal assistant at Barrett, Burke, Daffin, & Frappier LLP and served as a collection supervisor for Commonwealth Mortgage/Transworld Mortgage. |
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Elsa Ramirez Elsa Ramirez is a Legal Secretary for the Clinical Legal Education Program. She earned her Associates in Paralegal from the Houston Community College in 2008. Before joining the Law Center in 2010, Ramirez worked as a family law paralegal at Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse (AVDA) providing direct legal services to victims of domestic violence. She also serves as an interpreter, translating legal documents and interpreting client meetings, home visits, and civil court proceedings for the Clinic. She is a member of the Paralegal Division for the State Bar of Texas. Ramirez has completed 40 hours of basic mediation training at the AA White Dispute Resolution Center at the University of Houston Law Center. |
