Chris Buerger is NLADA’s Chief Counsel for Civil Legal Services. In this role, he advises programs on regulatory and compliance matters, particularly as they relate to LSC restrictions and requirements. He also assists members on emerging issues in legal aid related to technology. Prior to joining NLADA, Chris spent most of his career fighting on behalf of low-income parents in the family courts of New York City, first at The Center for Family Representation and then with The Bronx Defenders. Before that, he worked and interned in New York, Louisiana, Oregon, and Ghana. Chris is a graduate of Columbia Law School. During law school, he participated in the Human Rights Clinic and the Community Defense Externship. He received an M.P.P from Oregon State University, where his research focused on quantitative methods, rural communities, and child welfare policy. He also holds a B.A. from American University with a major in literature and a minor in chemistry.

Anne worked with Legal Aid Society of Cleveland for over twenty years. In Cleveland, while serving as Managing Attorney for Community Engagement for the last 12 years, she gained experience and developed expertise in community lawyering, group representation, engaging non-attorney advocates in access to justice work, interdisciplinary collaboration and program/project development, implementation and evaluation. She has also practiced housing law, worked on fines and fees reform, chaired Legal Aid’s Ethics Committee and established their Client Support Services program. Throughout her career, Anne presented at several national conferences and published two articles in MIE. Anne received her JD and MSSW from the University of Wisconsin and her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.