Blair Komar Bates

Senior Supervising Attorney, Housing Law Unit

Blair joined Community Legal Aid’s subsidiary, the Central West Justice Center, in January 2016 as a housing law attorney, before becoming a Senior Supervising Attorney to the Housing Law Unit in 2021. Before joining CLA, she clerked on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. During law school, she participated in the Boston University Civil Litigation Clinic and interned at the Rhode Island Public Defender, Juvenile Unit and at the Women’s Bar Foundation, Family Law Project.