Ann Baum

Ann Baum has been a solo family law practitioner in Boston since 1985, and is currently a partner at the law firm of Baum and Dockter, LLC, in Boston, where her practice includes mediation and parenting coordination.  She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1964, and her J.D. from New York University Law School in 1968.  She was a faculty member at Boston College Law School, where she taught a clinical practice course, and was the Supervising Attorney at the Legal Assistance Bureau, the clinical program in which law school students represented indigent clients in civil matters.  She also served as managing attorney for the Greater Boston Legal Services office associated with that program.  For several years, she co-taught a course, “Law and Social Work,” at the Boston College School of Social Work, to help students understand the problems when social work and the law intersect.

She is a volunteer for the Attorneys Representing Children (ARC) program in the Norfolk Family and Probate Court, and also for Senior Partners for Justice, where she represents indigent clients in family law matters.

For her Access to Justice Fellowship project, Ann will work with the Settlement and Early Resolution Volunteer (SERV) Project in the Middlesex County Probate and Family Court.  The SERV Project uses trained mediators and conciliators to assist unrepresented clients and works with them to help these clients settle their cases without the need for Court intervention.  Ann will also work on establishing the SERV Project in other courts in the Commonwealth.