Breakout Session | Inner Workings of the Law Office: Public Sector

12:40 Breakout Session:

Inner Workings of the Law Office: Public Sector^*

Larissa M. Mervin, Legal Aid of North Carolina, Charlotte
Taittiona Miles, North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Raleigh

Learn the basics of law office operations, including budgeting, case and file management, training and supervising employees, and marketing for public sector or public interest firms. Obtain resources available through the NC State Bar and other organizations and discuss the importance of mentoring.

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Inner Workings of the Law Office: Private Sector^*

Alicia W. Lewis, Anderson Jones PLLC, Raleigh
Catherine Sanders Reach, North Carolina Bar Association, Cary (Moderator)
Kim K. Steffan, Steffan & Associates PC, Hillsborough

Learn the basics of law office operations, including budgeting, case and file management, training and supervising employees, and marketing for private sector firms. Obtain resources available through the NC State Bar and other organizations and discuss the importance of mentoring.

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Larissa Mañón Mervin

Larissa Mañón Mervin is the Regional Managing Attorney of Legal Aid of North Carolina's Charlotte Metro region, where she oversees the Charlotte, Concord, and Gastonia offices, and manages the Charlotte office's operations, personnel, and case work in a variety of practice areas, including landlord-tenant, domestic violence, family, and consumer law.

Prior to serving as Regional Managing Attorney, Larissa worked in various roles at Legal Aid NC, including as supervising attorney with Legal Aid NC's statewide Pro Bono Program, supervising attorney with the Domestic Violence Unit at Legal Aid – Charlotte, and as a domestic violence staff attorney in the Concord, Raleigh, and Durham offices. In those roles, she primarily represented survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse in their civil protection order cases.

Larissa serves on various boards and bar associations, including the American Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association, and Mecklenburg County Bar Association.

Larissa earned her B.A., summa cum laude, in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her J.D. from Quinnipiac University School of Law.

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Taittiona Miles

Taittiona Miles is a staff attorney with North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services in Raleigh. She has seen firsthand the inequities incarcerated people face daily and, therefore, hopes to use her experiences in order to advance relief for incarcerated people and to promote criminal justice reform.

Taittiona is interested in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Civil Rights, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. She has interned with NC Coalition Against Sexual Assault and externed with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.

Taittiona is a graduate of North Carolina Central University School of Law.

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Contributors

Larissa Mañón Mervin

Taittiona Miles