Access to Justice

Section Leadership

Charles E. Vander Linden

Vander Linden is a principal at Starr Vander Linden LLP in Fitchburg, where he represents a number of clients in litigation involving real estate, employment, business matters, insurance disputes and discrimination. A Groton resident, he previously served on the Groton Zoning Board of Appeals for 15 years and is currently a trustee of the Groton Conservation Trust. Vander Linden is a member of the Attorney's Committee of the Massachusetts Community Associations Institute and is the vice president of the Board of Directors of Community Legal Aid, with headquarters in Worcester.

Isabel Sara Raskin

Raskin is practitioner in residence at Suffolk University Law School's Education Advocacy Clinic, a program she developed that supervises law students representing indigent clients in both school discipline and special education hearings. She received a Harvard Pilgrim Community Spirit 9/11 grant and was honored with the Boston Bar Association John G. Brooks Award for outstanding advocacy for legal aid clients. The Cambridge resident sits on Boston Public Schools' Special Education Advisory Council, and is a member of the Boston Public School's Code of Conduct Advisory Council and the Education Law Task Force.