Martha@justicelc.com

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Martha Carol, Esq.

Associate

As an associate at Justice Law Collaborative, Martha focuses her practice on attaining justice for survivors of sexual abuse and discrimination, among other personal injury cases. To do so, Martha focuses on flipping the power dynamic by amplifying the voices of those who have been unjustly ignored and by fighting for what would bring individuals healing and accountability.

Martha has more than eleven years of experience in the legal field, starting as a community advocate, senior outreach paralegal, and later becoming an attorney. She earned her law degree in May 2022 and passed the bar in the summer of 2022. While completing her legal studies, Martha worked as a student attorney for a clinic investigating cold-case racial violence and lynchings, in addition to internships with a federal magistrate judge, a criminal defense attorney, and a civil rights attorney. Martha worked from 2013 to 2019 as an investigator, policy advocate, and paralegal at a large non-profit legal organization. There she advocated for the civil rights, safety, and dignity of individuals in schools, the mental health system, group homes, psychiatric facilities, prisons, and in the justice system. In addition to supporting impact litigation, Martha engaged in policy advocacy in both municipal and state legislative bodies to fight for the rights of children and was appointed by the Governor of Louisiana to sit on a task force to draft conditions standards for the state’s juvenile incarceration facilities.

Throughout her work as a paralegal, Martha sought out tools and knowledge to support clients who had endured violence and trauma and who were experiencing debilitating mental health symptoms. After connecting with mentors and taking as many CLEs and CEUs and trainings as possible, Martha began training other paralegals and attorneys on doing trauma-informed legal advocacy and representation. Martha was drawn to Justice Law Collaborative in large part because JLC makes trauma-informed practice a priority in its representation. Along with her colleagues at JLC, Martha continues to offer training for attorneys, paralegals, and other legal workers in trauma-informed representation.

Martha is proud to now be using her legal skills and experience to fight for justice for her brave clients and is honored to stand beside them in this fight.

• Education Law

• Sexual Abuse

• Disability Justice

• Civil Rights

• LGBTQIA Rights

• Trauma-informed representation

• Massachusetts Bar, 2022

• United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 2023

• Northeastern School of Law, J.D. 2022

• Occidental College, B.A. in History 2013