Rachel Shannon Brown

Senior Supervising Attorney, Elder Law Unit and Disability Benefits Project

Rachel worked at Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts (LACCM) for over five years before the program joined with Western Massachusetts Legal Services to form Community Legal Aid in 2011. Rachel’s first role with the program was as a Staff Attorney in the Elder Law Unit, where she handled Medicare, housing, and public benefits cases, among other elder law issues. Rachel assumed the position of Senior Supervising Attorney for the Elder Law Unit and the Disability Benefits Project in late 2020. Rachel is active in CLA’s Diversity and Equity Committee and is a member of the Worcester County Bar Association. She regularly trains on issues pertaining to Medicare eligibility and appeals.

Before coming to LACCM, Rachel was a law clerk at Greater Boston Legal Services, where she worked on a class action lawsuit against the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority under the Americans with Disabilities Act and assisted clients with MassHealth and Medicare matters. Rachel also interned at Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services (now Prisoners’ Legal Services), the Boston Medical Center Domestic Violence Project, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, and the City Attorney Prosecutor’s office in Columbus, Ohio. Rachel is licensed to practice in Massachusetts and the U.S. District of Massachusetts.