New Staff Attorney-Legal Editor for Clearinghouse Review

Jason T. Vail, who lives in the Seattle, Washington, area, began work last month as a part-time telecommuting staff attorney–legal editor for the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law’s Clearinghouse Review. Vail will edit articles, help plan regular and special issues of the Review, and solicit articles for publication, among other responsibilities.

“I’m very excited to be joining the Shriver Center,” says Vail. “Clearinghouse Review has always been an important part of my client-based practice with Northwest Justice Project, and I’m looking forward to bringing this background to the editorial team. I hope my contributions will enhance theReview’s value as a vital tool for poverty law advocates across the country.”

Vail has been an attorney in various capacities for about five years at Northwest Justice Project, the largest civil legal aid program in Washington State and the state’s Legal Services Corporation–funded program. He will continue to work part-time as a general practitioner on Northwest Justice Project’s statewide legal aid telephone hotline. Vail also is the editor of the Washington State Young Lawyers Division publication, is an active member of several Washington State Bar Association committees, and regularly teaches courses on legal ethics and legal writing for a community college paralegal program. Before law school, Vail was art director at an advertising firm for four years and continued freelance design work during law school.

Vail replaces Margaret Becker, who was a telecommuting (from New York City) staff attorney–legal editor with the Shriver Center for five years before becoming a staff attorney at the Staten Island office of Legal Services of New York.