Greg Bass is a long-time legal services attorney, having worked since 1981 in benefits, housing, health, senior, consumer, civil rights, family, employment, and other areas, in programs in Alabama, Washington, California and Connecticut. He is currently the litigation director at Greater Hartford Legal Aid in Connecticut, where he has now been for over 11 years, and where he mostly participates in federal and state court litigation. Greg has participated as a faculty member for CLAE in the course of several trainings, including Case Planning & Discovery and Affirmative Litigation.
Karen Richards is the poverty law project director at Vermont Legal – a position she has now held for over nine years. The Poverty Law Project provides legal services to income eligible clients in the areas of public benefits, housing, family (domestic violence), consumer and unemployment compensation. Vermont Legal Aid (VLA) is a statewide non-LSC program. PLP services are delivered by a team of 12 attorneys and two paralegals. Prior to coming to VLA, Karen was a staff attorney, specializing in housing, at Connecticut Legal Services in the Waterbury office.
A trial attorney since 1970, Martin Lawyer has now been at Bay Area Legal Services for over 35 years. He has extensive civil trial and litigation experience in the areas of housing, consumer, and employment law, with a particular substantive specialty in real estate. Martin serves as lead counsel on class action suits, and as Appellate attorney at all levels of Florida and United State Courts (his latest result a win: Basco v. Machin, 514 F.3d1177 [11th Cir. 2008]). He received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law, and has since made numerous CLE and legal services training presentations in the areas of mobile home park law, landlord-tenant law, and federally-subsidized housing rights of recipients. Recreationally, Martin enjoys bicycling, running and watching soccer – especially the national team and far-away Glasgow Celtic.