Military Discharge Upgrade Legal Practice Manual by Margaret Kuzma

Margaret Kuzma is an attorney in the Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Services Cen ter of Harvard Law School, where her work focuses on complex discharge upgrade petitions. Previously, she directed the Veterans Inclusion Project and the Discharge Upgrade Practice at the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center. She has been a Visiting Clinical Lecturer with the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School, and she cofounded the Veterans Law Project at Quinnipiac University School of Law. Prior to becoming a public interest attorney, Ms. Kuzma ran the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program for Fort Benning and U.S. Army Garrison Baumholder.Dana Montalto is a Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law in the Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, where her work and teaching focus on representing veterans with less than honorable discharges. Ms. Montalto also founded and directs the Veterans Justice Pro Bono Partnership, which connects veterans who wrongfully received less than honorable discharges with pro bono attorneys. She has written about the legal history of the Depart ment of Veterans Affairs eligibility rules for veterans with less than honorable dis charges and the challenges veterans with less than honorable discharges face in accessing basic supportive services at VA.

Betsy Gwin is Associate Director of the Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, where she is a Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law. Her work focuses on representing disabled veterans in appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, appeals for state veterans' benefits, and discharge upgrade petitions. Ms. Gwin previously worked in legal services and was a public defender, representing parents and children in child welfare proceedings in the Child and Family Law Division of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services. Daniel Nagin is a Clinical Professor and Faculty Director of the Veterans Legal Clinic and the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School. He has published jour nal articles about the law and policy of veterans benefits and has been a frequent presenter at conferences about legal services for veterans. An elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, his current activities include serving on the Judicial Advisory Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the Legal Services Corporation Veterans Task Force, and the Executive Committee of the Section on Poverty Law of the American Association of Law Schools.