Pauline Mandel attended the University of Baltimore School of Law and was admitted to the Maryland and Federal Bar in 1994. For twelve years, she worked for the Legal Aid Bureau in Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. Mandel served as a supervising attorney in the CINA unit (Child in Need of Assistance) and represented children in the welfare system. Representation included children from birth to twenty one years old, who were brought into the child welfare system. Ms. Mandel also chaired CINA Task Force in the state of Maryland for several years, which had a primary purpose to train and educate children’s counsel as to standards of representation. Ms. Mandel has presented at several national conferences on children’s rights, including the Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in Boston in 2005. Ms. Mandel chaired the Legal Aid presentations at the Maryland Governor’s Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in 2005,, 2004, 2003, and 2002. Ms. Mandel has argued in state appellate courts on various children’s issues on numerous occasions, and won a landmark case concerning children’s rights in the state of Maryland.
Ms. Mandel became the Director of Legal Services at Maryland Crime Victims’ Resource Center, Inc. in December of 2006. Her job duties include supervision of all aspects of legal representation on the victim’s rights clinic. Since coming to MCVRC, she has presented at national and state conferences on victim’s rights, and has represented victims in many jurisdictions in the state. She is currently project director of the Identity Theft and Fraud grant awarded to MCVRV by OVC in October of 2007.
