Management and Staff

The work of the Project is operated by the Executive Director and the Field Director.

Lovely A. Dhillon, Esq.
Executive Director

LOVELY DHILLON is the Executive Director of the Law School Consortium Project (LSCP), a national nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. The LSCP promotes access to justice by working with law schools and their graduates who open solo and small-firm practices that serve low and moderate-income individuals and communities.

Ms. Dhillon’s legal career includes serving as an Assistant District Attorney in the San Francisco District Attorneys Office, where she focused on Domestic Violence and Hate Crimes cases. Ms. Dhillon was also the Executive Director of the California Minority Counsel Program, a California-wide nonprofit working toward equal opportunity and access for attorneys of color in corporate legal practice. Ms. Dhillon has also worked as a securities litigation attorney with the international law firm of Bingham, McCutchen, where her pro bono work included Title VII and political asylum cases.

Ms. Dhillon has been recognized by the California Law Business as one of the “Top 20 Lawyers Under 40.” She has also received an Exemplar of the American Dream Award by the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Ms. Dhillon serves on the Boards of the Bar Association of San Francisco Endowment; the Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center; the Indian American Leadership Initiative; Chinese for Affirmative Action; the National Council on Crime and Delinquency; and the California Lawyer magazine. She is a founding member of The Indus Women Leaders.

Ms. Dhillon has written and presented on topics including: “Expanding Justice Through Public/Private Initiatives,” “Pro Bono Work as a Form of Professionalism,” “Discrimination and Hate Crimes After 9/11,” “Hate Crimes Legislation and Prosecution,” “Empowering Women,” “Increasing the Success of Indian Professionals through Unity,” “Eliminating Racial and Gender Bias in Corporate Legal Departments,” “Affirmative Action and the Indian-American Community,” and “Beyond Prestige: Law Empowers Minorities.”

Ms. Dhillon is a 1990 graduate of the Yale Law School and a 1985 graduate of Florida State University.

ANAND SUBRAMANIAN is the Law School Consortium Project’s first Field Director.

Mr. Subramanian has a long-term commitment to social justice in the legal profession, beginning his advocacy for underserved communities as a student attorney at the Children and Family Justice Center and the Northwestern Community Law Clinic, part of the Bluhm Legal Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Subramanian also worked at the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation, where he helped coordinate the Suburban Attorney Volunteer Effort (SAVE).

Prior to joining the Law School Consortium Project, Mr. Subramanian acted as general counsel for Flavor Group, LLC, which promotes and supports urban dance in the Bay Area. Mr. Subramanian has also worked as a litigation and labor attorney at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, & Hampton in San Francisco.

Mr. Subramanian sits on the Board of Directors of the Japanese Community Youth Council, a nonprofit which supports and facilitates programs for underserved youth in San Francisco. He also volunteers at Back On Track, where he tutors “at-risk” high school students, and is a member of Organizing Youth, an annual conference which provides progressive South Asian youth with tools to work for political, social, and economic justice.

Mr. Subramanian graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 2001 and Claremont McKenna College in 1997.

As the LSCP Field Director, Mr. Subramanian focuses on developing and implementing benefits for LSCP law school members and practitioners, creating a national network of LSCP practitioners, evaluating and recruiting additional law schools, and acting as a liaison between LSCP and current law school members.