Claudio Pavlic has been a member of the ACCESO Team since its foundation in 1999 and has served as Proyecto ACCESO’s representative in Chile since 2002.
A participant in first Oral Advocacy course organized by Proyecto ACCESO, Claudio Pavlic is the first new generation of oral advocacy trainers to come out of Latin America.
Mr. Pavlic has been the National Public Defender of Chile, a law professor at the Universidad Catolica de Temuco, a media commentator, a national leader in the reform process, and an early innovator in legal technologies. Mr. Pavlic is the Regional Director of the Public Defenders in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago South.
He has represented indigenous peoples accused of terrorism, the indigent, and marginalized. He even cross-examined the President of the Supreme Court of Chile in a criminal trial. A frequent lecturer and consultant on justice issues in Chile and other Southern Cone countries, Mr. Pavlic has been an ACCESO Trainer in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Perú, and the United States.
Maxwell Gould is a criminal defense lawyer for the Legal Aid Society of New York City, representing poor people charged with crimes in the Bronx.
He received his Juris Doctor degree from the New York University School of Law in 1985, and his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Harvard University in 1981. Before joining the Legal Aid Society's Criminal Defense Practice, Mr. Gould worked in the Legal Aid Society's Civil Division, where he represented clients in individual cases and class actions in housing, benefits and disability matters.
He also has worked in the Legal Aid Society's Immigration Law Unit, where he represented immigrants threatened with deportation because of criminal convictions. He has taught ACCESO Capacitación workshops in Costa Rica, Chile, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and the United States.
