Lori received her JD Summa Cum Laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law (UB) in 1997; she is licensed to practice law in Maryland. After law school, Lori completed two judicial clerkships; first for the Hon John Eldridge, Court of Appeals of Maryland, and second for the Hon Susan Gauvey, U.S. Magistrate for the District of Maryland. Lori actively practiced law in Maryland; doing civil and criminal appeals; civil litigation; and criminal defense in private practice. Lori was also a public defender working as an appellate attorney and as Director of Government Affairs. She left the public defender’s office to pursue the Directorship of the Fiscal Policy Center, National Juvenile Justice Network, Manager of the Public Safety Performance Project for the Pew Charitable Trust, and State Director for Senator Barbara Mikulski. For more than a decade, while she was practicing, she was an adjunct at UB teaching in their legal skills program. When Baltimore decided to integrate Legal Skills with substantive courses, she was the adjunct they picked to help develop and pilot the program. During her time there, she was named Writing Professor of the Year.

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