Robin M. Deutsch
Robin
M. Deutsch is a psychologist and the Director of Forensic Services of the
Children and the Law Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical
School. As a therapist,
consultant, custody evaluator, mediator, and parenting coordinator, her work
has focused on the application of child development research to children’s
adjustment to divorce and parenting issues, the evaluation of families involved
in family change and management of high conflict divorce. Dr. Deutsch has co-authored published
articles on the effects of high conflict divorce, the evaluation of domestic
violence, management of cases of Munchausen by Proxy, Parenting Coordination,
developmentally appropriate parenting plans, and attachment
considerations. She is the co-author of 7
Things Your Teenager Can’t Tell You (and How to Talk
About Them Anyway) (Ballantine, 2005). Dr. Deutsch is the co-chair of the APA-ABA
Working Group on Psychological and Legal Interventions with Parents, Children
and Families and the APA-ABA Working Group on Alleged Abuse, Neglect, and
Endangerment. She is President-elect of
the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) and the former
president of the Massachusetts
chapter of AFCC. She is also a member of
the AFCC Task Force that developed Guidelines for Parenting Coordination
(2005), and the Massachusetts task force that wrote “Planning for Shared
Parenting: a Guide for Parents Living
Apart”. Dr. Deutsch is the former Chair of the American Psychological
Association Ethics Committee (2007) and was a member of the American Bar
Association Child Custody Pro Bono Project.
Dr. Deutsch is frequently invited to provide educational and scientific presentations
to judges, lawyers, and mental health professionals in the United States and Canada. She is a 2006 recipient of the American
Psychological Association Karl F. Heiser Presidential
Award for Advocacy.
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Jaclyn J. Jenkins
Jaclyn
Jean Jenkins is a third-year student at Hofstra
University School of Law and a Managing Editor of Notes & Comments of the
Family Court Review. Jaclyn graduated cum
laude with honors in History, and a minor in English from Whitman
College in Walla Walla, Washington.
While in college, she interned at the Office of the Corporation Counsel, in
their Child Abuse and Neglect division (now the Office of the Attorney General,
Child Protection division) in Washington,
D.C. Jaclyn is currently a Hofstra Child and Family Advocacy Fellow. She has served as
a member of the Domestic Violence Courtroom Advocates, the Black Law Students
Association, and has assisted with the New York State Parent Education and
Awareness Program (PEACE). She is
currently working to develop a new Streetlaw program
specifically aimed at meeting the needs of foster youth. During the summer of 2006 she interned with
Judge Jeff Wallace of the Hermiston Circuit Court in Oregon,
participated in the National Institute for Trial Advocacy Program regarding
child advocacy, and attended the Child Welfare League of America Conference, as
well as the Oregon Juvenile Judicial Conference in Bend, Oregon.
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Miriam Aroni
Krinsky
Miriam Aroni Krinsky is a Special Consultant on Policy, Reform and
Legislative Initiatives for the California Judicial Council. She previously served as the Executive
Director of the Children’s Law Center of Los Angeles, a 185
person nonprofit organization that represents over 20,000 abused and neglected
youth in Los Angeles.
Ms. Krinsky
currently sits on the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Foster Care, the ABA
Youth at Risk Commission, participates in various other federal, state and
local policy groups addressing issues impacting dependent youth, and has
testified extensively before legislative, governmental and judicial bodies on
issues relating to children at risk. She served as
President of the Los Angeles
County Bar Association (the first lawyer from the public sector to hold that
office), on the Los
Angeles City Ethics Commission,
acting as Commission President for three years, and as Co-Chair of the
California Bench Bar Coalition. After law school, Ms. Krinsky practiced at
the L.A. firm Hufstedler, Miller, Carlson &
Beardsley and served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central
District of California, acting as Chief of that office's
Appellate and General Crimes Sections. While with DOJ, Ms. Krinsky
chaired the Solicitor General’s Advisory Group on Appellate Issues and received
Attorney General Janet Reno’s highest national award for appellate work. Ms. Krinsky has
taught law school at the University of
Southern California Law Center and Loyola Law
School and lectured
nationwide on criminal law, child welfare, sentencing, and other legal topics.
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George E. Reed, Jr.
Website: www.delinquency.org
Practice: Family law, appeals, general practice
Firms: Sole practice and partnership,
White Plains, 1986-present
(Reed & Neale, 1991-97)
Associate, N.Y.C.
(litigation and general practice):
Putney, Twombly, Hall & Hirson,
1984-86
Moore Berson Lifflander & Mewhinney, 1979-84
Wachtel
Manheim & Grouf, 1978-79
Education: Indiana
University (Bloomington), J.D./M.B.A.,
1978
Syracuse University
(1st year law school) 1974-75
University of Michigan,
graduate study in geography, 1971-72
Swarthmore College,
B.A. 1971
Articles: “A Protocol for Juvenile
Delinquency”, N.Y.L.J., April 26, 1994
“Trends in the Case Law
of Termination of Parental Rights”,
Jan. 8, 2004
(http://www.delinquency.org/courseessay.htm)
Prior From Red Wing to St. Cloud: Does the Juvenile Justice System Work?
NYSBA (2007)
Programs: Child Support: Challenges in Complex Custody Cases (2006)
Designing Custody Trials (2005)
Termination of Parental
Rights: Is the Net Too Wide? (2004)
Cases: In re Benjamin L., 92 N.Y.2d 660
(1999) (pre-petition delay)
In re Neftali D., 85 N.Y.2d 631 (1995) (sufficiency of petition)
Appellate Division
(various)
Languages: French, Spanish, Swedish (reading
knowledge)
Home: Westchester County, N.Y. Married (Joanne, social worker);
3
children (ages 22-25).
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Andrew I. Schepard
Andrew
Schepard is Professor of Law, Hofstra
University School of Law and the Director of Hofstra
University’s Center for Children, Families and the Law. He is a 1972 graduate
of Harvard Law School,
where he served as Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review, served as
a Law Clerk to former Chief Judge James L. Oakes of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor
Schepard is the editor of the Family Court Review
and the author of Children, Courts and Custody: Interdisciplinary Models for
Divorcing Families (Cambridge University Press 2004). He has written many
law review articles in family law and alternative dispute resolution. Professor
Schepard writes the Law and Children column for the New
York Law Journal.
Professor
Schepard is the Reporter for the Uniform
Collaborative Law Act sponsored by the National Conference of Commissioners on
Uniform State Laws. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Youth at
Risk Commission. He was the Reporter for the Model Standards of Practice for
Family and Divorce Mediation approved by the American Bar Association, the
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and the Association for Conflict
Resolution and the Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Leadership
Summit on Unified Family Courts. He founded Hofstra Law School’s
Child and Family Advocacy Fellowship Program that awards full tuition
scholarships and paid externships to students pledged to a career in the field.
He is also a founder of Parent Education and Custody Effectiveness (P.E.A.C.E),
an education program for divorcing and separating parents on how to manage
their conflicts over their children responsibly.
He
is the Chair of the Family Law Education Reform Project co-sponsored by Hofstra
Law School
and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. He is an attorney member
of the Judicial Conference of the State of New York. Professor Schepard
is also Program Director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s course
in Modern Divorce Advocacy and has served as Program Director for NITA’s Child Advocacy, Deposition and Trial Advocacy
courses.
Professor
Schepard has received numerous awards from the
American Bar Association and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
for his work with families and children in conflict. Professor Schepard is an elected member of the American Law Institute
and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
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Tamara A. Steckler
Tamara A. Steckler is the Attorney-in-Charge of the Juvenile Rights
Division of the Legal Aid Society (JRD). Prior to becoming an attorney, Tamara
was a special education teacher for two years.
Post law school, Tamara worked as a staff attorney for JRD in the Bronx
trial office, then became the Legal Director for Talbot Perkins Foster Care
Agency and then continued her work with JRD in the Brooklyn
trial office. In 1994, Tamara left Legal Aid to become the Director of the
Family Law Unit for a growing not for profit law firm, New York Legal
Assistance Group (NYLAG). While at
NYLAG, Tamara started and supervised a full-service family law program in which
staff represented thousands of impoverished domestic violence victims and
others in Family and Supreme courts.
After several years, Tamara also became the Assistant Executive Director
of NYLAG and served as the Development Director for two years. Tamara returned
to Legal Aid’s Juvenile Rights Division in 2005 as the Attorney-in-Charge. She
currently sits on numerous state and city task forces and advisory
committees related to juvenile justice and child welfare issues, is on
the Board of Directors of the National Association of Counsel for Children and
is a member of Judge Judith Kaye’s Permanent Judicial Commission on Children,
as well as the statewide Task Force on the Future of Probation.
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