Marcia Palof is the manager of the Intake team at LASCO. While in law school at The Ohio State University, she got her start at LASCO (then LASC) through the summer clerkship program in 1978. She joined LASCO as a full-time staff member in 1980 and rose to her current position of intake manager in 1985. Marcia and the Intake Supervising Attorney oversee applicant requests for services through the intake staff who work to collect as much accurate information from as many people as possible in order to determine whether LASCO will be able to serve them or not. If they cannot be served by LASCO, she oversees referrals to other organizations that are better suited to meet the clients’ needs.

Marcia and the intake workers are also charged with identifying trends in client needs that can be used to improve the overall quality of LASCO’s practice and seeking out areas of the law where LASCO needs a larger presence. As a part of her duties, she prepares reports to present to LASCO’s various funding organizations.

Marcia participated for many years in the PACO Wills Clinics at senior facilities throughout the area and at the monthly Brief Advice Clinics at Broad Street United Methodist Church. She was on the Columbus State Paralegal Studies Committee from 2017 until her recent retirement from the committee. She was part of the founding group for the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel (NCCRC) and served on the steering committee until recently.

Education

• Westminster College (B.A.)
• The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (J.D. 1980)
  

Personal

Marcia has three children, Desiree, Phil, and Thomas, and she has been married for more than 50 years to Dale.