Pamela Tames, JD

Pamela Tames, JD, is an attorney who serves as Director of Training for the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and the Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston. She directs the legal advocacy education and training initiatives for physicians and allied health care providers, private law firm attorneys, and graduate and undergraduate student interns. Attorney Tames has spearheaded Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston's clinical work in terms of education and school-related matters, and for several years in terms of health services, health insurance, and income supports for families whose children have disabilities or chronic illness. In partnership with physicians and other allied health providers, she has spearheaded successful medical-legal partnership policy initiatives. Her experience in the education policy arena was formally recognized in 2007 when she was awarded the prestigious Schott Fellowship in Early Education and Care.

Prior to MLP, Attorney Tames worked at the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts as Pro Bono Program Manager, led a joint initiative of the Volunteer Lawyers' Project and the Disability Law Center that provided legal assistance to families in disabilities benefits matters, and served as a litigation associate at the New York law firm formerly known as Reid & Priest LLP. She is a graduate of New York University School of Law and the State University of New York at Binghamton.