CHARLES P. SABATINO is the director of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging. He is responsible for research and project development in the areas of health law, long-term care decision making, and legal services delivery for the elderly. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center where he has taught a seminar on law and aging since 1987. He is a past president of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (2001-02) and is currently chair of its public policy committee. Prior to joining the ABA, Mr. Sabatino was the elder law project attorney and managing attorney of the Arlington, Virginia, branch of Legal Services of Northern Virginia. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Virginia bar associations. Mr. Sabatino received an A.B. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington.

ERICA F. WOOD is the assistant director of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging. She has been associated with the Commission since 1980, where she has worked primarily on issues concerning adult guardianship, legal services delivery, dispute resolution, health care and managed care, long-term care, and access to court. Prior to 1980, she served as staff attorney at Legal Research and Services for the Elderly at the National Council of Senior Citizens. Ms. Wood is a member of the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Bar Associations. She is a member of the Virginia Public Guardian and Conservator Advisory Board, and is the legislative chair of the Northern Virginia Aging Network. She is chair of the Arlington Commission on Long-Term Care Residences. Ms. Wood received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from the George Washington University’s National Law Center in Washington.

LORI A. STIEGEL is an associate staff director of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging. She specializes in elder abuse and alternatives to guardianship. She is a co-author of Elder Abuse Detection and Intervention: A Collaborative Approach (Springer, 2006) and serves on the editorial boards of and contributes to the Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect and Victimization of the Elderly and Disabled. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Study Panel on the Risk and Prevalence of Elder Abuse, a contributing editor to Abuse and Neglect of Vulnerable Adult Populations (Civic Research Institute, 2005), and served for eight years on the board of directors of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse. Before joining the Commission staff in 1989, she worked at the Center for Social Gerontology in Michigan, as a legal services developer at the state office on aging in Georgia, and at the Senior Advocacy Unit of Bay Area Legal Services in Tampa, Florida. She received a B.A. from the University of Florida and a J.D. from George Washington University’s National Law Center in Washington. She is licensed to practice law in Florida, Georgia, and D.C.

LESLIE FRIED is an associate staff director of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging. She joined the ABA in September 1998 as the Medicare Advocacy Project attorney, a collaborative project with the Alzheimer’s Association. She specializes in Medicare issues and responds to Alzheimer’s-related Medicare inquiries from local Alzheimer’s Association chapters. From 2001 to 2003, Ms. Fried was a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance Study Panel on Medicare and Chronic Care in the 21st Century. In 2003, she was selected to be a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a nonpartisan organization made up of the nation’s leading experts on social insurance. In 2005, she was selected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to be a patient advocate on the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee. Before joining the ABA staff, Ms. Fried was in private practice representing clients in various elder law and domestic relations matters. From 1985 to 1995, she was a staff attorney, and then managing attorney, of Legal Services for Senior Citizens of Montgomery County, Maryland, an Older Americans Act Title IIIB legal services program. In 1995, the governor of Maryland appointed Ms. Fried as a delegate to the 1995 White House Conference on Aging. Ms. Fried received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of Maryland. She is on the Elder Law Section Council of the Maryland State Bar Association and is a member of the Maryland, District of Columbia, and Supreme Court bars.

HOLLY ROBINSON is associate staff director of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging. She specializes in housing, economic security, and legal services delivery issues. Ms. Robinson is the project director for the Older American’s Act-funded National Legal Assistance Support Project and administers the Partnerships in Law and Aging Program mini-grant project in conjunction with the Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging. Before joining the Commission, she was deputy legislative counsel for the office of legislative counsel for the Oregon Legislature, specializing in health and human services issues. Ms. Robinson served as Oregon’s legal services developer for two years, and served as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee of the Oregon Legislature for seven years. She is a member of the Oregon State Bar. Ms. Robinson received a B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.

ELLEN VANCLEAVE KLEM is associate staff director of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging. She joined the staff of the Commission in February 2005 as a Case Western Reserve University School of Law Fellow. Her work focuses on elder abuse, Medicaid estate recovery, volunteer guardianship monitoring programs, and mental health. Prior to joining the Commission, Ms. Klem was a legal intern with the Milton A. Kramer Health Law Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. She received a B.A. from James Madison College at Michigan State University and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a member of the Indiana and District of Columbia bars.

JAMIE PHILPOTTS is the editor of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging’s journal Bifocal and other Commission books and publications. Prior to joining the staff of the Commission in September 2000, she worked as a managing editor of production and marketing for an ABA law reporter and as an editor with Prentice Hall Law and Business Publishing. Ms. Philpotts holds a B.A. in English Literature from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and an M.A. in English Literature from the Catholic University of America in Washington.

SONIA ARCE is the office manager of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging. She is responsible for day-to-day office management, as well as for budget planning, financial management/oversight, and meeting planning. Prior to joining the Commission in 2004, Ms. Arce worked for nine years as the administrative assistant of the ABA Public Services Division, Commission on Immigration. She attended Montgomery College, with a major in business administration. Ms. Arce is bi-lingual in English and Spanish.

TRISHA BULLOCK is the administrative assistant for the ABA Commission on Law and Aging. She joined the staff in 2001. Ms. Bullock is responsible for general office services, including maintaining Commission mailing lists and databases, fulfilling orders for publications, processing payments, and responding to requests for information from e-mail and phone calls