Samantha J. Morton is Deputy Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children at Boston Medical Center (MLPC), a national and local program that allies lawyers and health care workers to promote health and well-being through legal advocacy.  During her initial tenure as an MLPC staff attorney, she focused on immigration advocacy and pro bono service delivery strategies.  Before joining MLPC in 2003, Ms. Morton was a litigation associate at WilmerHale (formerly Hale and Dorr LLP), and served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Morton A. Brody of the United States District Court for the District of Maine. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Law and Cornell University.