Senior Attorney William Gibbons (he/him) started at CLS’ Law Center North Central in 1979 as a Managing Attorney. He then transferred to the Domestic Relations Unit and in 1981 co-founded the Dependency Unit, now known as the Family Advocacy Unit (FAU). He currently serves as a senior attorney in the FAU, working with the child…
Staff Attorney Caroline Buck is a staff attorney in the Family Advocacy Unit. She started as a legal fellow with a project focusing on improving family preservation efforts for families with teenaged children at risk of entering out-of-home placement in the child welfare system. Caroline was previously a legal intern in the Family Advocacy Unit…
Senior Attorney Wesley Allen is a senior attorney in the Family Advocate Unit at Community Legal Services. Mr. Allen works with a team of lawyers, paralegals, and social workers who, for more than 25 years, have been helping parents involved with the child welfare system maintain custody of or reunite with their children. Mr. Allen…
Kathleen Creamer Managing Attorney – Family Law Unit CLS Logan Square Law Center 100 N. 18th St. Ste 3400 Philadelphia PA 19102 kcreamer@clsphila.org 215-981-3799 @familyadvokat Kathleen Creamer is the Managing Attorney of the Family Advocacy Unit at Community Legal Services, which uses a holistic family defense model to help parents involved with the child welfare…
Supervising Attorney Joline Price (she/her) is a Supervising Attorney in the Energy Unit at Community Legal Services. Ms. Price represents low-income Philadelphians struggling to afford, restore and maintain access to their gas, electric and water service. She also engages in a wide variety of state and city policy and legislative work. As part of both…
Of Counsel George D. Gould is an Of Counsel Attorney in the Energy Unit at Community Legal Services. He previously managed the Energy and Housing Units. He joined the staff at Community Legal Services as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow in 1970. The Housing Unit provides representation in housing cases, including landlord/tenant and public housing.…
Robert BallengerDirector – Energy Unit Mr. Ballenger is an attorney for CLS’s Energy Unit, where he works to restore and maintain clients’ access to essential utilities. Mr. Ballenger has been admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania since 2004, in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2011 and in the United States…
Supervising Attorney Seth Lyons (he/him) is a Supervising Attorney in the CLS Employment Unit. He began his work at CLS as a Berkeley Law Public Interest Fellow. Seth’s current work focuses on representing low-wage immigrant workers and reducing barriers to employer for people with criminal records through record clearing, individual representation, and systemic advocacy. He…
Senior Attorney Brendan Lynch started at CLS in 1998 as an Independence Foundation fellow in the Public Benefits unit. From 2000 – 2001 he clerked for the Honorable Petrese B. Tucker of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Following his clerkship, he returned to work at CLS. In 2006,…
Senior Attorney Nadia Hewka (she/her) is a Senior Attorney in the Employment Law Project, in the Workers Rights and Advocacy Project. She has developed specializations in representation of immigrant workers and particularly undocumented workers, sexual harassment, and retaliation. She has successfully argued before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Her advocacy work has centered on issues of…
