Dick Bauer

Senior Equal Justice Training Fellow

Dick Bauer comes to us from Greater Boston Legal Services, where he was a staff attorney since 1985 and a senior attorney in the Housing Unit since 1997. After graduating from MIT, and working for several years as a car mechanic, community organizer, and social security administration claims representative, Dick went to Northeastern University Law School to do Legal Services work and has now been in Legal Services since 1982 (his first law school coop placement was at the Mass Law Reform Institute Training Unit - the predecessor of CLAE). 

Dick was a contributing author of Legal Tactics: A Handbook for Massachusetts Tenants, 7th Edition (current), 6th Edition, 5th Edition, 4th Edition; the TAFDC Reference Guide (Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, 2000 though 2008); and Little Max: Creating Maximum Benefits for Children, Elderly, Poor, and Disabled People (Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, 1988). From 1998 onwards, he has been a member of the Supreme Judicial Court Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure.

Dick is co-chair of the Jewish Labor Committee New England Region, chair of the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission and the Somerville designee on the Middlesex Canal Commission. He is a past co-president of Congregation Kahal B'Raira, and a member of the Workmen's Circle Yiddish Committee, where he leads a monthly Yiddish conversation group called der bruklayner vinkl. 

For fun, Dick likes to lead historic bicycle and walking tours. He is married to Roberta Bauer, who is the former chair of the Somerville School Committee and a regulatory specialist at the Community Research Initiative of New England, and they have three children (including their son-in-law).