Faculty/Staff Bios

CLINICAL PROFESSOR LOIS H. KANTER

• Executive Director, former Clinical Director, of the Domestic Violence Institute
• Founder and Co-Director of the Dorchester Court Clinic and the Domestic Violence Institute at Boston Medical Center (DVI at BMC)
• Senior faculty for Dorchester Court Clinic
• Liaison to court-based legal services and coordinated community response projects

PROFESSOR CLARE DALTON

• Senior Faculty Scholar, DVI
• Founder and former Executive Director of the Insitute
• Teaches Battered Women and the Law
• Teaches Family Law Litigation

PATRICIA VOORHIES

• Associate Director, DVI
• Associate Director, Clinics and Institutes
• Supervises all work-study students
• Handles all on-going administrative issues, delegates to Clinic Secretary, as appropriate

SUSAN VERITY

• Secretary for the Clinics and Institutes, including DVI
• Coordinates registration for clinics, programs and conferences
• Manages resources directory for DVI's Help Site

KATHERINE E. SCHULTE

• Clinical Law Fellow for the DVI, funded by VAWA
• Co-Director and faculty member for the Dorchester Court Clinic
• Supervising attorney for the DVI at BMC program
• DVI Liaison to legal services collaborations

ZOE PAOLANTONIO

• Clinical Law Fellow funded through Equal Justice Works by the Pfizer Corporation
• Co-director of the DVI at BMC program
• Principal legal advocate and supervising attorney at BMC
• Liaison to medical/legal collaborations

TBA

• Part-time Clinical Law Fellow for DVI
• Principal architect for DVI's web-based resource The Help Site
• Consultant to community-based legal advocates