Claudia Johnson, JD, MPP, MPH

Assistant Professor

About

Claudia Colindres Johnson, MPP/MPH, JD is an Assistant Professor with the LDJ Program.

  • Claudia practiced law for over 10 years representing low-income individuals initially as a Skadden Fellow in Philadelphia, and then as a staff and managing attorney in family law/Domestic Violence, public benefits, medical health insurance denials, housing/eviction defense, and consumer law, both in Philadelphia and in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • She is pioneer in ushering technology to scale the impact of legal nonprofits, as well as other innovations, like setting up the Lawyer of the Day program in SF Superior Court, replicated in NY State and beyond.
  • She was pivotal in leading the adoption of legal hotline technology and other tools to better triage and serve those in need.
  • She is an expert on Language Justice, and was pivotal to making online forms, document assembly, ubiquitous in Courts and legal nonprofits.
  • She has been a drafter in multiple standard setting bodies, including working with the ATJ Commission in WA State on the WA Supreme Court Access to Justice Principles for Courts, the ABA Language Access Standards for State Courts, and the ABA Standards of Service in Legal Non-Profits, as well as on Friendly Efiling for Self-Represented Litigants.
  • She was a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
  • She is nationally recognized for her work on bringing document assembly technology for lawyers and self represented litigants, including courts, pro bono and non profit practice.
  • She was profiled by the NY Times in 2016 by Tina Rosenbaum
  • She is teaching Constitutional Law, Poverty Law. and Reproductive Rights at the Fairhaven campus and mentoring students. She is also teaching LGTBQ law and civil rights.
  • She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Chicano Studies, an MPH from the Public Health School and an MPP from the Goldam School. Prior to going to Law School she was as a policy analyst for the US Senate on Medicare payment systems, as well as an intern at the Health Insurance Association of America in DC.
  • She is a frequent presenter on language rights, access to Justice and technology, innovation, standards for non profit law firms.
  • Consults with Access to Justice Commissions on innovations in service delivery, intake, triage, and technology.
  • Her law degree is from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.