Legal Services Of Eastern Missouri Has a Promotion

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri has promoted Amanda Schneider to Project Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership. She previously served as a staff attorney in LSEM’s Children’s Legal Alliance (CLA).

Schneider joined LSEM in 2006 as the first attorney under the CLA William B. Guerri Chair, sponsored by Thompson Coburn. The Chair was named after the law firm’s former longtime managing partner. In that position, Schneider provided advocacy for economically disadvantaged children and youth with unmet educational and mental health needs.

In her new role, Schneider will oversee LSEM’s Medical-Legal Partnership, a program that connects LSEM attorneys with local healthcare providers Affinia Healthcare, Family Care Healthcare and Integrated Health Network to provide civil legal assistance to address legal problems that often affect the health of low-income adults, children and families in the St. Louis area.

Schneider received her J.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington as well as a dual bachelor’s degree in English and sociology. She lives in Chesterfield.

Luz Maria Henriquez will assume Schneider’s previous role as the William B. Guerri Chair in the CLA program. She joined LSEM as a staff attorney in 2014.

Henriquez has a B.A. in political science from the University of California, San Diego and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkley School of Law. She lives in Clayton.

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM) has provided high quality legal assistance in civil cases to the low-income community for more than 50 years. In 2015, LSEM helped more than 16,000 people (including clients and their household members) in 21 counties of eastern Missouri. LSEM is a registered 501(c)(3) organization that relies upon financial support from individuals, corporations and foundations in our community. If you would like to support our mission, please visit www.lsem.org and click on “donate now.”