The ILF relies on the expertise of North American and European lawyers working pro bono for the organization. The organization wants to thank those who have given their time and expertise.

Lawyers interested in volunteering for the ILF should contact natalierea.ny@gmail.com.

The International Legal Fellows 2008 in Nepal:

Bejal Shah, a staff attorney at the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York

Daniel Alterman, a criminal defense and civil rights attorney from New York.

Kenneth Plotz, former public defender and former Chief Judge of Eleventh Judicial District of Colorado.

The International Legal Fellows in Afghanistan are known as

KATHRYN WADIA FELLOWS
Kathryn graduated from Loyola School of Law in New Orleans in 1995, where her honors included the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Scholarship and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center Public Service Award. Before law school, Kathryn worked at the Georgia Indigent Defense Council and the Southern Center for Human Rights, both in Atlanta. While at Loyola, she clerked at the Orleans Parish Indigent Defender Program in New Orleans and the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project in Washington, D.C. She became a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society in NewYork in 1996. She died on April 30, 2004 of breast cancer at the age of 36. She would have loved to work for the ILF in Afghanistan.

International Fellows 2003-07:
•  Mary Ross, former executive director of Providence House, providing transitional housing for female ex-convicts and permanent housing for homeless women and children and a staff attorney in the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York.
•  Kenneth Deluca, retired supervising attorney in the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York.
•  Karena Rahall, former theatrical director and a staff attorney in the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York.
•  The Honorable Mary McGowan Davis, former head of the appeals bureau of the United States Attorney Office in the Eastern District of New York and Acting New York State Supreme Court Judge until 1999.
•  Robert Fogelnest, criminal defense lawyer in New York.
•  Michael Skibbie, former executive director of the New Hampshire public defender's office and professor at the University of New Hampshire Law School.
•  Noel Casey, London barrister.
•  Roxane Vachon, International Criminal Defense Attorneys' Association; public defender and later private practice, Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
•  Benoit Turcotte, International Criminal Defense Attorneys' Association; private practice, Montreal, P.Q. Canada.
•  Rachel Saunders, a staff attorney in the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York.
•  Dorothea Grieger, German attorney.
•  Trish Cheverie, International Criminal Defense Attorneys' Association; public defender, Prince Edward Island Legal Aid Office, Summerside, P.E.I., Canada.
•  Patricia Lavelle, a staff attorney in the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York.
•  Angela Krueger, former staff attorney at Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., and the Office of the Public Defender in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.