The State Bar of Michigan has hired Bradley Vauter to the position of Senior Director - Service Delivery - Access to Justice.

As a senior director, Vauter will report directly to Associate Executive Director - Access to Justice MaryAnn Sarosi. Together they will work to develop policy and design, implement and manage service delivery strategies, including pro se, community legal education, pro bono and unbundling. Vauter's main focus will be to manage Access to Justice department efforts with regard to examination of specific methods of delivery of legal services to low and moderate income persons. He will also serve as a staff liaison to the Access to Justice Task Force, Service Delivery Subcommittee and its work groups.

Before joining the State Bar, Vauter worked as the staff attorney for the Legal Services of Northern Michigan. There he was responsible for active caseload and trial practice concentrating in family law, social security, entitlement/employment issues, landlord-tenant, elder law and consumer law.

Vauter was director of the HIV/AIDS Education and Outreach programs, executive director of The AIDS Legal Council of Chicago and an attorney for the Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service. He had a general practice where he concentrated on estate administration and planning, small businesses, contract property, family law, and served as council and representation of non-profit organizations.

After receiving his undergraduate degree at Lake Superior State College, Vauter attended Detroit College of Law, where he received his J.D in 1983. That same year, Vauter was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan and was permitted to practice in both Eastern and Western District Federal Courts. Since then, he has been treasurer of the 26th Circuit Bar Association, member of the 25th Bar, the Detroit Metropolitan, and the Chicago Bar Associations.