Attorney Block joined the firm in 2006 after clerking for the Hon. Janet Bond Arterton of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. In law school she received the C. LaRue Munson Prize for excellence in clinical legal work. She was a student director of the Landlord-Tenant Clinic and of the Capital Assistance Project. She interned for the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, the Public Defender Division of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union, and the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama. She also served as an editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and Chair of the 2003 Rebellious Lawyering Conference.
Attorney Block is a member of the Board of Directors of Friends of New Haven Legal Assistance. She is also a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), the Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association, and the New Haven County Bar Association.
Publication: Crawford v. Washington Introduces New Confrontation Clause Standards, Discovery: Newsletter of Conn. Div. of Public Defender Servs., Spring 2004.
