Rachel Reeves

Director of Field Placement and Pro Bono Programs and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law

Education/Professional Certification

JD, University of Maine School of Law
BS, University of Southern Maine

Biography

Professor Reeves is an experienced field placement director and teacher and a committed advocate for expanded access to justice initiatives that benefit underserved communities. She directs the law school’s field placement and pro bono programs and teaches the Individual Field Placement Seminar as well as the New York Pro Bono Scholars Field Placement course.

A native of Maine, Professor Reeves is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law. She is admitted to practice in Maine’s state and federal courts and the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals. Prof. Reeves began her career in Portland, Maine with Norman, Hanson & DeTroy’s litigation group. Before joining the clinical faculty at UConn Law, she taught for almost a decade in the field placement program at the University of Maine School of Law. In addition to her oversight of that program, Prof. Reeves led Maine Law’s Rural Lawyer Project, a collaboration that worked toward alleviating the widening justice gap in Maine’s rural communities.