Quaime Lee (NUSL 2002) re-joins the NUSL community as Assistant Dean for the Center for Co-op and Career Development. Quaime started his career in legal career advising here at NUSL, as a professional development advisor in the Center in 2011, advising JD candidates and alums, as well the first two cohorts of Master of Laws (LLM) candidates at Northeastern. Before returning to NUSL, Quaime spent more than seven years at Suffolk University Law School as an Assistant Director and then Associate Director for Emerging Careers and JD Advising. In addition to general legal career advising, Quaime focused his efforts at Suffolk Law on connecting full-time and part-time JD, LLM and Master of Science in Law students and graduates with gainful employment as in-house corporate attorneys, as well as compliance, contract management, data privacy and legal operations professionals. In collaboration with the Director of Suffolk Law’s clinical faculty, he launched a pilot curriculum aimed at helping law students to be more intentionally engaged with their professional identity formation. 

Quaime’s service in higher education has been grounded in a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, having served as a member of the Committee Against Institutionalized Racism during his last stint at NUSL; Suffolk Law’s Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Committee; an inaugural member of Suffolk University’s Ambassador’s for Inclusion initiative; and as a small group facilitator and strategic contributor in Suffolk’s Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Initiative. 

After law school Quaime spent six years in the US Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, which oversees the workers’ compensation and disability program for federal employees.  

Quaime received his Juris Doctor from NUSL, where he completed co-ops with the following employers: the Honorable Herbert Goodwin, Brookline District Court; the Office of General Counsel for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority; and the law firms Peabody & Arnold and Davis, Malm & D’Agostine. 

In addition to his Juris Doctor from Northeastern, Quaime holds a Bachelor of Arts on Classics-Latin from Harvard College and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, where he focused his studies of comparative ethics and bridging cultural differences. 

Sophie supports the daily operations of the co-op program and assists the advising team with a full schedule of student programming. She received her B.A. from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she majored in French. Prior to joining NUSL in 2017, Sophie taught English as a Second Language in France and in Boston, and worked as an International Student Officer at an ESL school in Boston.

Working with students is a longstanding passion for Maura. Advising students is a perfect way to “pay it forward” in gratitude for the incredible mentors who opened doors and supported her throughout her career. What she thought would be a brief period as a career advisor turned into 15 years at three law schools, including serving as the assistant dean at NUSL from 2014-2017. After leaving NUSL in 2017, Maura served as the Senior Manager for Access to Justice in the Massachusetts Trial Court. She returned to NUSL in December 2021.

Maura joined the field of career advising after working as an education law attorney in a range of positions. As an education attorney, she represented children in two legal services organizations and a small law firm. In addition, Maura served as the general counsel at a university and represented colleges and universities while working as a senior counsel at a large law firm. Her career began as a Legal Research and Writing instructor at Suffolk University Law School (including to part-time evening students) followed by a clerkship in the Massachusetts Superior Court. She also taught law to part-time undergraduate students at Bunker Hill Community College and in Northeastern’s Criminal Justice program. 

As a student at NUSL Maura completed co-ops at The Jamaica Plain Legal Services Center; the D.C. Street Law Clinic (where she did 2 co-ops), and the Special Litigation Unit of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. Additionally, Maura participated in the Poverty Law Clinic and the Prisoners’ Rights Clinic. She also served as a Teaching Assistant in the College of Criminal Justice.

Before pursuing her law degree, Maura worked as a college admissions representative, a high school teacher, and a community organizer. At the University of New Hampshire Maura earned a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Secondary Education with a minor in linguistics. Continuing her interest in education, Maura graduated from a Master of Education program at the University of Massachusetts where she focused on desegregation and literacy. To fund her educational pursuits, Maura worked in the restaurant business in multiple roles. She believes that her varied job experiences were excellent training for the legal profession and loves to explain how.

Becky is the Assistant Director of LL.M. and J.D. Advising. Before joining NUSL, Becky was the Assistant Director of Legal Career Services at UMass School of Law where she advised students and alumni seeking internships and employment in both the private and public interest sectors.

Prior to becoming a legal career advisor, Becky practiced immigration law in the Boston area for over twenty years, committing her legal career to supporting low-income immigrant and refugee families. She started her career at the International Institute of New England, a refugee resettlement organization, where she served as Managing Attorney. She later opened her own immigration law practice in Cambridge during which time she joined the Rian Immigrant Center as a pro bono attorney. After the devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, she became part of their staff and worked closely with Haitian families and survivors. She also represented individuals from all over the world in family and humanitarian-based immigration cases. In 2017, Becky traveled to Texas to volunteer at a family detention facility, providing legal assistance to young mothers and children seeking asylum in the U.S.

At the Rian Immigrant Center, Becky became Associate Director of Legal Services. As part of this role, she worked closely with law student interns, including co-op students. She became passionate about mentoring and advising law students on their career journeys, which led her to make the transition to legal career advising.

Becky received her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School and a B.A. in French from Bates College. Becky presented at and chaired immigration law events regularly for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) and was a member of the immigration law steering committee for the Boston Bar Association (BBA).

Adam is an alumnus of Northeastern University School of Law (Class of 2016) and is returning to campus as the Assistant Director in the Center for Co-op and Career Development. He is excited to work with law student interested in pursuing careers in the private sector, either in a law firm or in-house setting. Prior to this role, Adam was an associate at Goodwin Procter LLP, where he collaborated with large and small legal teams to advise clients on their financing needs, coordinated large commercial finance transactions, drafted and negotiated complex financing documents, and advised a number of pro bono clients about obtaining financial relief under the Paycheck Protection Program established via the CARES Act. Prior to that role, Adam was an associate at Proskauer Rose LLP, where he worked with lean legal teams to support direct lending and private credit transactions to finance mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and other complex corporate transactions for a wide array of private equity clients. During his time at both Goodwin and Proskauer, Adam served as a mentor to first-year and summer associates, striving to provide them with tools that would help them effectively navigate their transition from law students to practicing lawyers.

During his time at Northeastern, Adam’s co-ops included working with a then-newly-public life sciences company’s General Counsel, serving as a judicial intern under Judge Judith G. Dein in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, working as a summer associate at Proskauer Rose LLP, and working in-house with the General Counsel’s Office at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Cynthia is the Director of the Private Sector in the Center for Co-op and Career Development at Northeastern University School of Law. In this role, she leads the Private Sector team in advising students and engaging with a range of private sector employers.  A native of Brookline, MA, she graduated cum laude from Boston College with a B.S. in Marketing, and is a 2005 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law.  During law school, Cynthia benefited from participating in NUSL’s Co-operative Legal Education Program, completing co-ops in Middlesex Juvenile Court and three law firms.  Cynthia also was a member of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association.  After graduating from NUSL, Cynthia worked at a small general practice law firm, before deciding that higher education was her true calling.  Cynthia returned briefly to NUSL before joining the BU Law Career Development Office as the Recruitment and Marketing Manager.  At BU Law, Cynthia advised students on recruitment, engaged in extensive employer outreach, and managed the on campus interviewing process.

In her role at NUSL, Cynthia advises students interested in working at law firms and companies for co-op and post-graduate opportunities, including in depth advising around Summer Associate recruitment.  Cynthia also advises the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association and serves on various committees.

Cynthia’s background includes a history in competitive tennis.  As a scholarship athlete at Boston College, she competed at the #1 singles and #1 doubles positions for the Eagles for four years, and served for nearly five years post-graduation as the Assistant Coach for the Boston College Women’s Tennis Team.