Pauline Mandel
Presentation: Advanced Practical Representation
Saturday (5/19) at 10:15 am
Pauline Mandel, J.D. is Director of Legal Services for Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center. In this capacity she oversees all aspects of services to victims, including legal, therapeutic and intake. As part of the legal team, she supervises attorneys providing direct legal services to clients, staffs cases and appeals and provides legal trainings and information as part of the outreach program. Responsibilities with victim advocates include weekly service meetings and case staffings, supervising pro bono resources and offering legal advice to intake personnel as well as direct client representation. . Before her position with MCVRC, Ms. Mandel was a supervising attorney with the Legal Aid Bureau for twelve years in Baltimore city. She supervised a unit of twenty attorneys, who represented children in the Child Welfare System in Baltimore City. She has argued numerous times in Maryland Appellate Courts, and one of her appellate cases set a precedent for all children to be treated as parties in Termination of Parental Rights cases. She chaired a Task Force committee for all child advocates, and organized and presented state wide trainings on children’s issues. She presented at The National Convention of Child Abuse in Boston, on Empowering Children in the Court System in 2005, The Symposium on Victimology in April of 2007, and the Governor’s Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.
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