Jay E. Sicklick, JD

Jay Sicklick began as a staff attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy and founded the first collaborative Medical-Legal Partnership in the country in April 2000. Prior to this appointment, he served on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he held the position of Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, teaching lawyering skills, and social welfare law. Mr. Sicklick also served as a senior staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society’s Bronx Neighborhood Office for six years, as well as a private practitioner in Boston. He currently holds the positions of Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he teaches courses in legal ethics and professional responsibility and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

Mr. Sicklick is a graduate of Colgate University and Boston College Law School. He is the author of several publications, including Adolescent Health Care: The Legal Rights of Teens (5th ed), and has spoken at numerous conferences and hospital sponsored Grand Rounds on legal-health related topics.