Professor Vollmer earned a BA in political science and international relations from the University of Notre Dame, with highest honors, and a JD from Duke University School of Law, with honors. Since July 2008, Professor Vollmer has been teaching legal courses at Penn State Law, including legal writing, veterans’ benefits, appellate advocacy, and pretrial advocacy. Since July 2015, she has also directed the law school’s Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic. As director, Professor Vollmer supervises law students who represent veterans with appeals concerning their veterans’ disability, pension, and education benefits. In addition, the clinic assists the Pennsylvania Office of Veterans Affairs in representing veterans by providing medical research and assisting with obtaining medical expert opinions. The clinic also seeks to influence and develop state and federal legislation to benefit veterans and servicemembers. Prior to joining Penn State Law, Professor Vollmer served as a senior counsel in the Division of Enforcement for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2006, she received an award from the Department of Justice for her work in assisting the Enron Task Force with its criminal prosecutions. She also represented the commission in both litigation and appellate matters for the SEC’s Office of the General Counsel. Before joining the SEC, she was a partner in a law firm, practicing commercial litigation. Professor Vollmer also created and teaches in the law school’s Explore Law program, and developed and for many years taught Introduction to Common Law Analysis and Language, an online course for foreign-trained lawyers. Professor Vollmer also serves as a board member for the National Law School Veterans Clinic Consortium, and as a consultant to Penn State’s College of Liberal Arts online World Campus undergraduate major in law and society.

Richard A.J. Prebil, Esq., is Supervising Attorney of the Veterans Advocacy Project at Legal Aid of Southeastern PA, which he helped establish in mid‐2020. The unit provides representation, advice, and outreach to veterans, specifically those who are unhoused, at risk of becoming unhoused, income insecure, and those living with disabilities. Richard primarily practices in the areas of VA benefits, discharge upgrades, and social security. Through collaborations with other legal and social service agencies, Richard has helped to grow the Veterans Unit at LASP to serve veterans in twenty counties throughout Pennsylvania. As a result of the growth of the Unit, as of August 2025, LASP has been able to assist in obtaining over $5 million in back benefits for veterans and their families, and over $106 million dollars in increased estimated lifetime income. As a result of his advocacy work within the veteran community, Richard was invited to join and serves on U.S. Representative Madeline Dean’s Veterans Advisory Panel. When he joined LASP in 2019, Richard, based in the Chester, Delaware County, office, represented individuals in landlord/tenant, subsidized housing, child custody, public benefits, and unemployment compensation matters. Prior to joining Legal Aid, Richard was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at a non-profit in Philadelphia where he represented veterans, current military personnel, and their families, in the areas of veterans benefits, discharge upgrades, and Chapter 7 bankruptcies, in PA, NJ, and DE. During law school, he worked with many veteran and legal service organizations from Minneapolis to Chicago to Philadelphia. He received his bachelors degree from the University of Illinois Springfield and graduated from the Villanova University Charles Widger Law School (where he was awarded the Dorothy Day Award for Pro Bono Service, the Philadelphia Bar Association’s 2017 Eve Biskind Klothen Award for Pro Bono Service to the Community, and the American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty’s 2015 John J. Curtin, Jr. Justice Fund Legal Fellowship). In addition to his role at Legal Aid, Richard is an adjunct professor at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, teaching a course he created entitled, “Representing Veterans in Administrative Practice: A Substantive & Practical Introduction to Veterans Law.” Richard has spoken, and written, nationally, on the areas of access to justice (especially in administrative agencies), the impact and importance of legal services for those who are unhoused or living at or below the poverty level, trauma and trauma-informed advocacy, and best practices for impactful partnerships. He received the Delaware County Bar Association’s Illumination Award in 2024, the PA Legal Aid Network’s Emerging Excellence in Advocacy Award in 2025, and was recognized by the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2025 for his work advocating for veterans. Richard is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is an accredited attorney with the US Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also licensed to practice before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

Professor Reed joined the faculty at Delaware Law School as Associate Professor of Law and served in that capacity from 1981-84; as Associate Dean and Professor of Law, 1984-93; and as Professor of Law from 1984 to 2010.Professor Reed is admitted to practice in Indiana, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Reed teaches and writes in the areas of Evidence, Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, Veterans Law and Military Law, Property, Pre-Trial Methods, Trial Methods, Land Use Planning, and Wills and Trusts. Professor Reed received a B.A. from Marquette University in 1962; and a J.D. from Notre Dame Law School in 1969, where he served as a member of the Notre Dame Law Review. 

Ms. Tarloski is a staff attorney in the Veterans Advocacy Project at Legal Aid of Southeastern PA where she handles VA disability claims and discharge upgrades for low-income and unhoused veterans. Previous to Legal Aid, Ms. Tarloski worked at Philadelphia VIP and as a Visiting Professor of Practice at the Lewis B. Puller Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic at William and Mary Law School. While there she developed and taught the first law school clinic class nationwide to focus exclusively on Military Sexual Trauma and helped to create and launch the online certificate class “Psychological Challenges and Resulting Legal Issues for Service Members and Veterans,” which she continues to teach. She began her career serving veterans as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at Widener Law School’s Veterans Law Clinic. She earned her law degree from Drexel University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, her M.S. in Gender, Development, and Globalization from the London School of Economics and Political Science and her B.A. in International Relations from the University of San Diego.