Team

Quinten has practiced housing and eviction defense law since 2008, and has been a professional programmer and web application developer since 2001. He speaks at area law schools and blogs frequently on the topic of legal technology. He works on projects addressing social justice and access to justice with technology focusing on the topic of housing and evictions. Quinten is an active member of his local community, serving as an appointed member of the City of Cambridge’s Recycling Advisory Committee, serving on the Access to Justice Commission’s working group on housing through the Justice for All initiative, founding a neighborhood political action group, and serving as the long-time president of a Scrabble club in Somerville, MA. He received his B.Sc. in Logic and Computation with an additional B.Sc. in Political Science from Carnegie Mellon University and J.D. from Cornell Law School.

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Bryce is a software developer, working on e-filing and developing usable, easy-to-make court forms. He previously worked at the IRS in the customer service domain, leading a enterprise common services team at Realtime Robotics as a Motion Planning Software Engineer, and with Bluebonnet Data as a Political Data Fellow, organizing data and technology efforts on downballot campaigns. Bryce graduated from Rice University with a dual BS in Computer Science and BA in Visual and Dramatic Arts in 2017, and with a MS in Computer Science in 2018, working in the KavrakiLab.

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Sam works with courts, orgs, and the LIT Lab team to build online tools that make legal processes more accessible.

Early in his legal career Sam defended consumers from abusive debt collectors and landlords. He also founded Lawyerist, where he focused on legal innovation, access to justice, technology competence, and community building. Sam has been recognized as a legal innovator by the American Bar Association and Fastcase. Before joining the LIT Lab he opened a website design, strategy, and development studio.

Sam is also a dad, bookworm, aging skate punk, and—technically—lawyer.

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Rajeswari is a DevOps Engineer and Clinical Fellow at the LIT Lab, where she works across server infrastructure, automation, and DevOps systems that support access-to-justice tools used by legal organizations and courts. She holds an MS in Computer Science from UC Riverside, with a background in backend development, cloud infrastructure, real-time data pipelines, and containerization across enterprise software and civic technology.

Prior to joining the LIT Lab, Rajeswari served as a Data Science Research Fellow with the City of Los Angeles under an NSF-funded fellowship.

Outside of work, she enjoys cooking and volunteering at animal shelters.

Sarah Boonin teaches in the areas of mental health and disability law, women’s reproductive health, and legal ethics. She designed and teaches Suffolk’s first Health Law Clinic. The Clinic provides students with an opportunity to hone their legal skills under close supervision through live client practice in the areas of guardianship, Social Security disability practice, and healthcare benefits. Professor Boonin and her clinical students specialize in serving clients with complex mental health needs. Professor Boonin serves as the Associate Director of Clinical Programs. She is a faculty affiliate to the Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights.

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Among other responsibilities, Gabe Teninbaum leads the #1 ranked legal tech program in the nation, as ranked by National Jurist Magazine. He has taught more than 10 different courses (including classes held in Hungary, Sweden, and at MIT) and published more than 30 law review pieces and other articles. In addition to his work at Suffolk Law, Prof. Teninbaum held appointments as a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, as a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab, and as a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. He is the founder of an educational technology startup, SpacedRepetition.com, which was named one of the Top 20 Legal IT Innovations in the world by ALM/Legal Week Intelligence; is a former trial attorney at Sugarman in Boston; and, before law school, protected dozens of dignitaries—including two sitting U.S. presidents—while serving as an Operations Support Technician in the U.S. Secret Service.

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Professor O’Leary is a national leader at the intersection of legal writing and legal technology. She directs Suffolk’s #1 nationally ranked LIT Center as well as the law school’s LIT Concentration for JD students, which was included in Bloomberg’s top 10 law school innovators list in 2023.

Professor O’Leary is the author of the first student-centered coursebook on innovation and technology practical skills for lawyers. Her scholarship and speaking engagements focus on technology competence in legal practice and the law school curriculum. She has published and presented on topics such as Generative AI for lawyers, artificially intelligent legal research and writing tools and document automation, and cybersecurity basics for lawyers.

At Suffolk, Professor O’Leary designed and taught the first course on Generative AI and designed a new course called Modern Legal Practice Innovation & Tech, which covers skills in areas such as e-discovery, research analytics, cybersecurity basics, word processing for lawyers, typography, remote lawyering, law practice management tools, and digital design of legal documents. She regularly partners with industry experts and vendors to bring a real-world experience into the classroom for students.

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As the Associate Director of Clinical Programs, Christina Miller oversees Suffolk’s nationally ranked Clinical Programs. As a Professor, she leads the Prosecutors Program and teaches in the areas of digital evidence and criminal procedure. She teaches and supervises the next generation of prosecutors who are practicing pursuant to Supreme Judicial Court Rule 3:03 for District Attorney’s Offices around the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Her teaching and supervision focus on the foundations of criminal law, case assessment, ethical exercise of state power, the options and impact of criminal law procedure, and informed and thoughtful use of discretion. She works intensively with students to develop skills in the areas of case assessment, oral advocacy, litigation strategy, organization, building professional voice, and confidence.

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Professor Buckingham joined the Moakley Law Library as a legal reference librarian in 2002. Before becoming a librarian, he worked in housing and residence life at several institutions, including Boston University and Emerson College. While obtaining his degree from Simmons College he worked part-time at the Harvard Law School Library.

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