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Law School Faculty, Administration, and Services
The Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center
Margarita Prado Alvarez
Supervising Attorney
Margarita Prado Alvarez graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. in American studies. She attended the University of California Hastings College of the Law, where she graduated in 1976.
After law school, Alvarez worked for Community Services Organization, providing consumer services to low-income clients in East Los Angeles. She then returned to Pomona College as an admissions officer responsible for developing outreach activities to Latino students. A presentation before the assembly subcommittee on post-secondary education led to a position with then Assemblyman John Vasconcellos as his legislative assistant.
In 1983, Alvarez moved to Santa Clara County and joined a small law firm engaged in employment law. After several years with that firm, she joined the Litigation Division of the Santa Clara County Counsel’s office, continuing her work in employment law. In 1991, she opened her own practice in the field of workers’ compensation. She joined the KGACLC’s faculty as supervising attorney in workers’ rights in January 2005. Alvarez lives in Morgan Hill with her husband, John, a 1978 graduate of SCU Law School.
Scott Maurer
Supervising Attorney
Scott Maurer graduated from Western Washington University in 1986 with a B.A. in anthropology. He attended law school at Santa Clara University, where he graduated with honors in 1995. Maurer has worked as a clinician at the KGACLC since 1996. Maurer co-teaches a variety of clinical skills courses at the center, where his students provide advice and legal representation to low-income residents on consumer protection matters. Maurer also co-teaches substantive consumer protection courses on campus with his mentor, Eric Wright. In 2003, the National Association of Consumer Advocates named Maurer the Clinical/Legal Services Attorney of the Year.
Maurer lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains with his wife, Barbara; his sons, Zachary and Daniel; and a variety of pets.
Lynette Parker
Supervising Attorney
Lynette Parker is the clinical supervising attorney (immigration practice area) and clinical faculty member of the KGACLC. She has been teaching and supervising law students handling immigration cases at the Law Center since March 2000. In addition to her work at the Law Center, Parker is a lecturer in law at the Santa Clara University law school, teaching immigration law and refugee and asylum law. She provides technical support to attorneys on political asylum, VAWA, U visa and T visa cases. She is an accompanying instructor on the Health Law: Trauma, Vicarious Trauma, and Representing Traumatized Clients course offered by Santa Clara University law school. She has authored a law review article published by Georgetown Immigration Law Journal titled “Increasing Law Students Effectiveness When Representing Traumatized Clients: A Case Study of the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center.” Parker is a member of the Executive Committee of the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking and a member of the Bay Area Coalition for Immigrant Victims of Crimes.
Prior to joining the KGACLC, Parker worked as a staff attorney at the International Institute of the East Bay for 10 years. She has extensive experience representing asylum applicants, as well as battered spouses and children, who are self-petitioning for permanent residence, victims of crimes, who are petitioning for U visas, and victims of human trafficking, who are petitioning for T visas.
Parker spent three years of her childhood in Puerto Rico and five years in India. She has traveled to China, Nicaragua, Chiapas, Mexico, and Colombia. She is fluent in Spanish.