Samantha Morton, JD

Samantha J. Morton is Executive Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston (MLP | Boston) at Boston Medical Center. She previously served as Deputy Director (2006-08) and Staff Attorney (2003-05) at the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children, the precursor organization to MLP | Boston which housed both national and local programs. Ms. Morton has focused on immigration advocacy, pro bono service delivery strategies, ethics and confidentiality in the MLP model, and preventive law priority-setting. She spearheaded the successful “adoption” of five Boston-area health clinics by law firm pro bono partners; this model is now being replicated by the American Bar Association through the ABA Medical-Legal Partnerships Pro Bono Support Project. Ms. Morton has authored several articles on medical-legal partnership and presented at numerous national, state, and local conferences.

Ms. Morton is a Lecturer on Law at New England Law | Boston and a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Health Law Section Council. In 2004-05, she was a Boston Bar Association Public Interest Leadership Program fellow. Before joining MLP | Boston in 2003, Ms. Morton was a litigation associate at WilmerHale (formerly Hale and Dorr LLP), and served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Morton A. Brody of the United States District Court for the District of Maine. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Law and Cornell University.