Donald Marritz, Esq. Staff Attorney
Areas of Expertise: Donald
Marritz joined the staff of RHLS in 2007. He manages
the Pennsylvania Housing Law Project and the HEMAP Help Center.
Publications: Donald is the
author of "Making Equality Matter
(Again): The Prohibition Against Special Laws in the Pennsylvania
Constitution," 3 Widener J. Pub. L. 161 (1993), as well
as a chapter about the Article I, sec. 11, guarantee of open
courts and remedies in the book "The Pennsylvania Constitution:
A Treatise on Rights and Remedies" (Gormley, et al., editors,
2004). |
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| Awards: Donald received
the Pennsylvania Bar Association Special Achievement in 1998
and in 2002, and in 2006 was granted the Pennsylvania Legal Aid
Network Excellence Award.
Experience and Education: Prior to joining RHLS, Don was a
staff attorney at MidPenn Legal Services in the Gettysburg
office for many years. He is an adjunct at Penn State-Dickinson
School of Law where he teaches a course on poverty law and
Gettysburg College where he teaches philosophy of law.
Appointment: Donald was recently
appointed to the Steering Committee of the National Coalition
for Civil Right to Counsel (Civil Gideon). |
