Clinics & Externships

Clinic Faculty

Michele R. Pistone Professor of Law Director, Clinical Program Director, CARES Clinic

Professor Pistone is a national authority on immigration law and procedure. Her work has focused on issues impacting asylum seekers and refugees. She is a Board Member of Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center (PIRC), a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS International Human Rights Section, and as a consultant to American Law Institute-American Bar Association Continuing Legal Education, she authored an award-winning training video for lawyers representing asylum seekers. Professor Pistone has been a clinical teacher for several years and directs the Clinical Program. She also serves on the ABA's Committee on Clinical and Skills Education.

T. Keith Fogg Visiting Associate Professor of Law Director, Federal Tax Clinic

T. Keith Fogg joins the faculty as Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Federal Tax Clinic. Professor Fogg received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary, his J.D. from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law, and his LL.M. from the College of William and Mary Marshall Wythe School of Law. He has worked for the past 30 years as a lawyer in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, where he has served both in the national office and field offices. Prior to coming to Villanova, he was Senior Counsel in the Richmond Office, where he handled sensitive collection and bankruptcy matters. He also served as an advisor when Congress passed the last major procedural tax reform legislation. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown, Richmond, and William and Mary, and was a visiting professor at the University of Arizona School of Law. Professor Fogg will be directing and teaching in our Federal Tax Clinic.

Beth Lyon Associate Professor of Law Director, Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic

Before joining the faculty of Villanova Law School in 2001, Professor Lyon was a staff attorney with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in Washington, DC, and a Practitioner-in-Residence at the Washington College of Law, American University. She is a specialist in immigration law and Chair-Elect of the AALS International Human Rights Section.

Dveera Segal Associate Professor of Law Director, Civil Justice Clinic

Professor Segal joined the Villanova faculty in the Fall of 1999. Her legal career has been as an advocate for the poor, as a staff attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, the Delaware County Legal Assistance Association and as a member of the clinical faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Segal was recently appointed co-vice chair of the Equal Justice to the Poor Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, is on the Board of Directors of HIAS and Council and is a member of the Delivery of Legal Services Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Her expertise and interests focus on poverty law, public interest practice and civil litigation.

Karla McKanders Visiting Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow

Karla McKanders joins the faculty as a Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow. Prior to coming to Villanova Law School, Karla clerked for the Honorable Damon J. Keith of the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and was an Associate in the law firm Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC in Detroit, Michigan. Karla earned her J.D. from Duke University School of Law. She received her B.A. with Honors from Spelman College.

Yolanda Vazquez Visiting Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow

Yolanda Vazquez joins us as a Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow. She will work principally with Professor Beth Lyon in the Farmworkers Legal Aid Clinic. Since September, 2004, Yolanda has been the Director of the Nevada Immigrant Resource Project, which is housed at UNLV Boyd School of Law. Prior to that, Ms. Vazquez worked as a staff attorney at Legal Services of New Jersey, working largely on issues involving undocumented agricultural workers. She also was a public defender for almost six years, first in Chicago and then in Washington D.C. She is a graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Linda Love Vines

Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow

Linda Love Vines is a Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow for the Federal Tax Clinic. Before coming to Villanova in January 2003, Linda was a Senior Attorney with the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for six years. Prior to that, she was a Tax Consultant with a large, international accounting firm. She received a J.D. and LL.M in Taxation from Villanova University School of Law.

Patricia F. Brown Clinic Office Administrator Certified Paralegal

As Clinic Office Administrator, Ms. Brown manages the day-to-day operations of the Clinical Program's law office. She works closely with the faculty and students of the CARES Clinic utilizing her extensive paralegal skills.

JoAnn Viviani Certified Paralegal Civil Justice Clinic and Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic

JoAnn's background is in civil litigation working on cases in five counties. She has been a longtime member and is the current president of the Chester County Paralegal Association.

Ann McGarrigle Clinic Secretary

Ms. McGarrigle has extensive knowledge and experience in the area of federal tax law. She works closely with the faculty and students of the Federal Tax Clinic.

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