Legal Assistance Welcomes New Litigation Director, Attorney Alan Jay Rom Hired for Position

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

January 17, 2007 

 

Contact 

Sarah Loy, Executive Assistant 

Phone: (508) 752-3722 x3013 

Fax: (508) 752-5918 

Email: sloy@laccm.org

 

Attorney Alan Jay Rom has joined the staff of the Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts (LACCM) as its Litigation Director. Before coming to LACCM, Attorney Rom served most recently as Executive Director of Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Inc., from 2002 to 2006. He worked for seven years in private practice concentrating on employment cases, and for nearly eighteen years as staff counsel to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association, where he concentrated on education law, employment discrimination, voting rights, and public accommodation law. He started his career at legal services in the 1970s, first as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow with both the Farmworker Division of Camden Regional Legal Services in Southern New Jersey, concentrating on sanitary conditions of farm labor camps, and then as Director of the Farmworker Division of Neighborhood Legal Services of Hartford, Connecticut, where he concentrated on support of union organizing efforts. 

 

Attorney Rom has served on numerous community boards and is currently a member of the boards of the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project, Greater Boston Legal Services, the Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation, and Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty. He is also member of Cleveland State University/Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s National Advisory Board. He has taught a course, “The Legal System and the Hispanic/Latino Community” at Northeastern University School of Law and trial and appellate practice workshops at Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law. He has authored several articles on public school finance, voting rights, bilingual education and employment law. He is admitted to the Bars of Ohio, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts, the U.S. Supreme Court, the First and Second Courts of Appeal, and the Districts of New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. 

 

Jonathan Mannina, LACCM’s Executive Director, said, “We are very excited to have hired Alan as our Litigation Director. He brings a wealth of experience to our litigation efforts, and we look forward to continuing and expanding LACCM’s vigorous civil rights litigation with him.” LACCM provides free civil legal assistance to the low-income and elderly residents of Worcester County and receives funding from the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation, the U.S. Department of Justice, a number of local United Way affiliates, and other sources. LACCM’s main office is located in the City of Worcester and it also maintains satellite offices in Athol, Fitchburg, Milford, and Southbridge. LACCM’s staff consists of 21 attorneys, 4 advocacy paralegals, and 7 administrative support staff. LACCM provides services to over 3000 clients per year. 

 

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