ANDREW BUDZINSKI (HE/HIM)

ASSISTANT TRAINING DIRECTOR (UDC LAW FACULTY MEMBER)

Andrew Budzinski is Co-Director of the General Practice Clinic and an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, where he represents clients and supervises students in family law cases and projects. Professor Budzinski is the Assistant Director of DCALF’s training program and takes an active role in mentoring all DCALF attorneys.

Throughout his career, Professor Budzinski has focused on representing survivors of intimate partner violence in civil protection order and family law cases, and supervising law students at various institutions in the same cases. Prior to joining the UDC-DACSL faculty in 2020, Professor Budzinski taught at George Washington University School of Law’s Family Justice Litigation Clinic, where his students represented survivors in divorce, custody, child support, and civil protection order cases. Before that, Professor Budzinski taught at Georgetown University Law Center’s Domestic Violence Clinic, where he represented survivors and supervised students in civil protection order cases and projects aimed at advancing access to justice for survivor-litigants. He has also worked as a staff attorney at Washington & Lee University Law School’s Community Legal Practice Center representing low-income clients in cases involving domestic violence, custody, divorce, and end-of-life planning. He served as a law clerk to Judge Roy W. McLeese III on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Professor Budzinski is an active advocate for improving access to justice and closing the justice gap. He has published law review articles on how court rules disadvantage litigants without counsel and how those rules can be modified to maximize procedural justice. He has served on the D.C. Superior Court’s Domestic Violence Division Strategic Planning Committee and the D.C. Superior Court’s Domestic Violence Division Rules Committee. He has appeared as a Faculty Presenter for the District of Columbia Bar’s Continuing Legal Education class on civil protection order litigation and edits the D.C. Bar’s Practice Manual chapter on domestic violence.