Jacqueline Laínez Flanagan is a visiting associate professor teaching Civil Procedure and assisting in the launch of the Small Business Clinic. The clinic, funded through a Small Business Opportunity Legal Initiative grant from TEDCO, provides direct business legal advisory services to small businesses and entrepreneurs in local underserved communities.
Previously, she served as a visiting associate professor of clinical law at the George Washington University Law School, and acting director of the Small Business and Community Economic Development Clinic.
She started her teaching career as the founding director of the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, where she also taught Contracts and Federal Personal Income Tax, and directed a Tax Policy Clinic as a pilot.
She has served as a visiting associate professor of law at American University Washington College of Law, teaching Legal Ethics, State and Local Taxation, and co-teaching in the Janet R. Spragens Federal Tax Clinic. Her other teaching appointments have included the University of Richmond and the University of Memphis.
Her legal practice has primarily involved tax, intellectual property, and nonprofit consulting. She has represented small businesses, social enterprises, and start-ups, as well as immigrant and low-wage workers.
Her legal scholarship, community service, professional presentations, and media appearances have largely focused on the intersection between taxation and immigration, human rights, and corporate accountability.
She earned a law degree from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, and LLM degrees from Georgetown University Law Center (Taxation), and the George Washington University Law School (Friedman Fellowship, Clinical Pedagogy). She is licensed to practice in Washington, D.C. and admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court.