Elaine Poon
- Lecturer
Elaine Poon is the managing attorney of the Charlottesville office of the Legal Aid Justice Center. Her work focuses on economic justice. Legal Aid fights injustice in the lives of individual Virginians while rooting out exploitative policies and practices that keep people in poverty.
Poon moved to Virginia from Atlanta, where she was a senior staff attorney at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc. There, she represented low-income individuals in a variety of areas including predatory lending, disability rights, heir property, elder law and domestic violence prevention.
Poon is committed to a holistic approach to lawyering that seeks to address systemic causes of injustice. She teaches Consumer Law at the Law School.
Education
- J.D.Emory University School of Law2007
- B.S.Cornell University2003
Faculty in the News
Megan T. Stevenson, What the Legal System Gets Wrong About Jailing People Awaiting Trial (The Appeal)
Saikrishna Prakash, Targeting Trump Post-Presidency, the House’s Lawsuits Are Still Dragging Out in Court (The National Law Journal)
John C. Jeffries Jr., George Floyd Trial Centers on Police Tactic That Is Hard to Prosecute (The Wall Street Journal)
Jennifer L. Givens, Deirdre M. Enright, Opinion: Virginia Must Bolster Access to Police Investigations (The Virginian-Pilot)
