The Legal Accountability Project Launches Advisory Board
Thursday, May 30, 2024
For Immediate Release
Contact: Aliza Shatzman, 267-481-2095, aliza.shatzman@legalaccountabilityproject.org
The Legal Accountability Project Launches Advisory Board
As LAP grows and flourishes, we're excited to welcome more minds to the LAP family to advise and support our critical transparency, diversity and equity, and accountability work. LAP's Founding Advisory Board members are judges, law professors, and innovators who represent diverse backgrounds and skillsets.
Presiding Judge Stephen Louis A. Dillard has served on the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia since 2010. Judge Dillard is graduate of Samford University, the Mississippi College School of Law (with honors), and is currently working toward a L.L.M. degree in Judicial Studies at Duke University Law School. He previously served as law clerk to Judge Daniel A. Manion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Maya Markovich currently serves as justice tech executive in residence at Village Capital and executive director at the Justice Technology Association. Maya is a graduate of Stanford University and UC Law SF.
Jade Craig is an Assistant Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern Law. He will be joining the faculty at the University of Mississippi School of Law in the fall of 2024. Professor Craig earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He clerked for Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and for Judge Carlton W. Reeves of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
Albert Tawil is the Founder & CEO of Lateral Hub, an online job board for laterals and judicial clerks to easily find and apply to jobs at top-tier law firms, and Summer Associate Hub, a resource and content hub for law students to learn about BigLaw practice areas and prepare for the summer recruiting process through engagement with firms. Albert earned his JD from NYU School of Law.
John Cook is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, where he teaches Research, Writing & Analysis and Professional Responsibility. Professor Cook received his B.A. from Yale University, his M.Sc. from Oxford University, and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law. He previously clerked in the Rhode Island Trial Court Law Clerk Department, for Associate Justice Alexandro Castro of the Supreme Court of the Northern Mariana Islands, for Judge Frank Whitney of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, for Judge Landya McCafferty of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, and for Judge Ralph Erickson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
LAP is thrilled to welcome this diversity of thought and life experience to the team as we prepare to celebrate our second anniversary in June.