The Applied Legal Storytelling

Conference, Chapter 3

Presenter Biographies

 Cynthia M. Adams is a Clinical Writing, from the University of Development Law Clinic, which Professor of Law at Indiana Wisconsin and her J.D. from Tulane represents neighborhood-based University School of Law - Law School. While at Tulane, she organizations, small businesses and Indianapolis. She has worked with served as an Associate Editor of the tenants‟ associations. She held the ESL law students for many years and Tulane Environmental Law Journal position of Director of Clinical has taught law courses in contracts, and as a student attorney for the Programs for the Washington contract drafting, and legal writing to Tulane Environmental Law Clinic. College of Law from 2003 to 2006. ESL LL.M. students. In 2008, She began teaching legal writing in Professor Bennett currently serves as Professor Adams coauthored a book 1998 as an adjunct professor at a member of the advisory board for entitled The International Lawyer’s Marquette while she practiced the D.C. Legal Services Interpreter Guide to Legal Analysis and environmental law in a large Bank, and serves as vice chair of the Communication in the United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin firm. She left Advisory Committee for Community which teaches lawyering practice to teach full time at the law and Economic Development for the communication skills to ESL law schools of Penn-State University, D.C. Bar‟s Pro Bono Program. Before students. Professor Adams is co- where she also pursued graduate joining the faculty of the Washington authoring a book entitled A Guide to studies in comparative literature, and College of Law, Professor Bennett Drafting International Contracts in Mercer University. She then took a practiced as a staff attorney with the Legal English (forthcoming from hiatus from teaching to work as an Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, where Aspen in 2012). She manages a attorney editor for Thomson Reuters she specialized in housing and listserv on teaching ESL law students (West Publishing) until she joined consumer law. with worldwide membership. At Marquette Law School‟s full time national and international faculty in 2010. She teaches or has  Linda Berger joined UNLV- conferences, Professor Adams has taught legal writing, legal analysis, Boyd School of Law as Professor of made numerous presentations related client counseling, and law and Law effective July 1, 2011. Her to teaching legal writing, contract literature and is working on her first research, writing, and teaching law, and contract drafting to ESL law article that explores what the critical converge on the study and practice of students. Professor Adams has taught literary theory “new criticism” can legal rhetoric. In her early courses at Shanghai International teach about writing better briefs. She scholarship, she focused on Studies University and Zhejiang serves as an Associate Editor of Legal application of New Rhetoric University in Hangzhou, China. Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD. composition theory to the teaching of legal writing. More recently, she has  Professor Susan Bay is an  Susan Bennett is a professor of been applying rhetorical analysis and Associate Professor of Legal Writing law at the Washington College of metaphor and narrative theory to at Marquette Law School. She Law of American University in interpret persuasive briefs and received her B.A. in English and Washington, D.C. She founded and judicial opinions; this series of articles French, with an emphasis on Creative directs the Community and Economic seeks to uncover how legal rhetoric works in a particular context as a basis for recommending methods for School of Law – Camden. Prior to  Lurene Contento is an professional legal writers to becoming associate dean she was the Assistant Professor and Director of strengthen their rhetorical Department Chair of the law school‟s The John Marshall Law School‟s effectiveness and ability to persuade. Clinical Programs. In addition to Writing Resource Center. She Her most recent article is The Lady, teaching in the Domestic Violence counsels students and presents or the Tiger? A Field Guide to Metaphor Clinic, she has also taught courses in workshops on a range of legal writing & Narrative, 50 Washburn L. Rev. Professional Responsibility, Evidence topics including persuasion and 275 (2011). Before joining UNLV, and Disability Law. Before joining the scholarly writing. She also teaches Linda was Professor of Law at Rutgers faculty, she was the legal writing in a program for Mercer Law School and at Thomas Executive Director of the Legal conditionally admitted students as Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, Clinic for the Disabled, in well as in an upper-level class CA. Philadelphia. Her diverse designed to help students prepare for employment history includes stints as  Todd A. Berger is a 2003 practice and the bar. She has a commercial litigator and as an presented at local, national, and graduate of Temple University Honors Attorney with the U.S. School of Law. He also earned an international conferences and has Department of Transportation. She is published practical tips for legal L.L.M. in Trial Advocacy from experienced in domestic violence law, Temple University in 2007. He is writing professionals. Lurene disability law, transportation law, attended the Once Upon a Legal currently the Managing Attorney of environmental law and toxic torts, the Federal Prisoner Reentry Project Time Storytelling Conference in public benefits, special education, and London in 2007 and is looking at Rutgers School of Law-Camden. consumer protection. In 2004, the Prior to coming to Rutgers he forward to adding her stories to this Philadelphia Business Journal named year‟s conference. worked as an assistant public Victoria to the "40 under 40"• defender with the Defender recognizing her as one of the region's  Diane Courselle is a professor Association of Philadelphia, top young professionals. at the University of Wyoming representing indigent defendants College of Law where she also directs Ken Chestek is a Clinical throughout all stages of the criminal  an appellate and post-conviction justice system, from preliminary Professor of Law at the Indiana clinic. Prior to entering academia, she arraignment through trial and post- University School of Law--- was an attorney with the Office of the verdict motions. He worked as a Indianapolis. He has published several Appellate Defender in New York, supervisor in both the Municipal articles about storytelling and NY. She is a graduate of Fordham Court and Felony Waiver Units, persuasion, including The Plot University and Loyola University assisting new attorneys in trial Thickens: The Appellate Brief as Story School of Law in New Orleans, LA. preparation and courtroom practice. (based on a presentation to the first Prof. Courselle is also a frequent He also served in the Major Trials Applied Storytelling Conference held presenter/faculty member at the Unit representing clients in jury in London in 2007). Prof. Chestek annual NLADA Appellate Defender trials involving the most serious non- currently serves as President of the training program. homicide felony charges. He was also Legal Writing Institute. a Lecturer in Law at the University of  Susan R. Dailey is an Associate Pennsylvania School of Law where he  Clare Keefe Coleman is the Professor of Legal Writing and taught the Criminal Defense Clinic. Writing Specialist and a Visiting Director of the Legal Skills Program

Assistant Professor of Law at Drexel at Quinnipiac University School of  Tucker Carrington is the University‟s Earle Mack School of Law. She has been the writing director of the Mississippi Innocence Law. She joined the faculty in 2008 specialist at Quinnipiac for twenty- Project based at the University of after practicing with Philadelphia law three years and also teaches a seminar Mississippi School of Law. He has firms specializing in complex in Law and the Humanities. Her worked as a criminal defense lawyer commercial litigation; her current research interests include legal for his entire legal career, most of it courses include Legal Methods I and writing pedagogy, the use of as a public defender in Washington, II and Litigation Drafting. Clare technology in teaching, faculty D.C. Tucker has also written graduated from the University of development, and law and literature. extensively on criminal justice issues, Pennsylvania and with honors from She is currently working on a long- focusing particularly on issues Villanova Law School. Clare also range study of the effectiveness of surrounding wrongful convictions. holds a master‟s degree in creative electronic portfolios as a tool to He represented Levon Brooks, one of writing and has taught literature and improve law students‟ writing. the exonerees depicted in the writing at Temple University; her documentary film that is the subject of short fiction has won awards from the  Christy DeSanctis is a this conference's presentation Writing Aloud/InterAct Theatre Professor of Legal Writing and  Victoria Chase is the Associate Company and the Philadelphia City Director of the Legal Writing Paper. Program at George Washington Dean of Academic Affairs at Rutgers University. In addition to overseeing research centers on legal narrative, faculty, Iselin clerked at the D.C. a multifaceted writing curriculum, particularly the credibility and Superior Court and worked as an she teaches legal writing, plausibility of legal stories. attorney and legal writer for a local introduction to advocacy, and law and  Keith A. Findley, a 1985 public interest advocacy literature. She is also a Ph.D. organization. Before law school, she candidate in English at the graduate of the Yale Law School, is a Clinical Professor at the University of was the program director of University of Maryland, where her WomensLaw.org, national nonprofit focus is on 19th century American Wisconsin Law School‟s Frank J. Remington Center, where he is co- providing state-specific legal Literature. (She has a special affinity information to domestic violence for Nathaniel Hawthorne.) But her director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. He is also President of the survivors. Iselin is a graduate of GW interest in stories extends well into Law, where she was a two-year the 21st century, where she finds Innocence Network, an affiliation of 65 innocence projects in the United writing fellow for the Writing Center herself intrigued by the many she now coordinates. possibilities that they offer for States, Canada, the United Kingdom, teaching good writing and analysis. Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.  Brian Gilmore is a Clinical He has also served as Director of the Associate Professor of Law and  Scott DeVito received his Ph.D. University of Wisconsin‟s Criminal Director of Housing Law Clinic at the in Philosophy of Science from the Appeals Project, and as an appellate Michigan State University College of University of Rochester in October and trial level Assistant State Public Law, and a long time public interest 1996. He taught philosophy until Defender in Madison, Wisconsin. lawyer, writer, and poet, he also entering law school at the University directed the Fair Housing Clinic at of Connecticut where he was editor-in  Brian J. Foley, conference co- organizer, is an associate professor at the Howard University School of Law -chief of Connecticut Law Review and in his longtime hometown, from which he graduated in 2003. Florida Coastal School of Law, where he returned from visiting at Drexel Washington D.C. from 2005-2010. After graduating he moved to While he doubts that John Edgar Phoenix Arizona where he clerked at (2007-08) where he won a teaching award and Boston University's (2008- Wideman is correct when he asserted the Arizona Supreme Court for that "all stories are true," he does Justice Michael D. Ryan and 10) law schools. He focuses on Evidence, Criminal Law and believe like the television show "The practiced plaintiff's commercial X-Files" that the truth is out there. litigation. He joined Florida Coastal Procedure, and Civil Procedure, but School of Law in 2008 where he has also taught, Business  Deborah S. Gordon is primarily teaches commercial law and Associations, Federal Courts, Legal Assistant Professor of Law at Drexel writes in the areas of empirical Research and Writing, Professional University Earle Mack School of research, law school education, and Responsibility, Property, and Law. Professor Gordon teaches Legal contracts law. Sentencing. He is the author of A New Methods, Wills Trusts & Estates, Financial You in 28 Days: A 37-Day and Estate & Gift Tax at Drexel  Linda Edwards is Professor of Plan (Gegensatz Press, 2011) and University's Earle Mack School of Law at the William S. Boyd School of does stand up comedy. He blogs at Law. Prior to coming to Drexel, Law at UNLV. She has been teaching BrianJFoley.net. Professor Gordon practiced law with and writing in the field of Legal Day Berry & Howard, LLP in  Matthew Fraidin is currently a Writing since 1987, when she joined Stamford, Conn., where she handled Visiting Associate Professor at the Lawyering faculty at N.Y.U. She sophisticated estate and tax planning, Georgetown University Law Center, then moved to Mercer University, business and succession planning, pre where he teaches in the Domestic where, for 19 years, she was the -marital planning, estate Violence Clinic. He is a member of the Director and Coordinator of Legal administration, and litigation faculty of the University of the Writing. Prior to her years in the involving fiduciaries and District of Columbia David A. Clarke academy, Linda practiced law for 10 beneficiaries. She received her School of Law, where he teaches in years. She has served in various undergraduate degree in English the HIV/AIDS law clinic, and also capacities in LWI, ALWD, the ABA, from Williams College and her J.D. teaches Professional Responsibility and the AALS Section. She is from New York University School of and Disaster Law: Katrina and currently working on an advanced Law, where she served as Editor-in- legal writing text and writing in the Beyond. Chief of The New York University Law area of law and myth.  Iselin Gambert is an Associate Review. Professor Gordon's latest

Professor of Legal Research and article, which discusses the use of  Jason Eyster is a graduate of Writing at the George Washington expressive language in testamentary Princeton University and Fordham University Law School, where she documents, is Reflecting on the Law School. He currently directs the teaches a section of LRW and Language of Death, 34 Seattle U. L. Asylum and Immigrant Rights Clinic coordinates the law school Writing Rev. 379 (2010). at Ave Maria law School. His Center. Prior to joining the GW Law  Michele LaForest Halloran is and is a frequent continuing legal program that provides appellate Clinical Professor of Law, Director of education presenter on business law counsel to indigent parents and Clinical Programs, and Director of issues. Her methods and tips for children in child protection cases. the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at teaching Business Associations are Professor Kaiser has published Michigan State University College of featured in Teaching the Law School articles on child protection law. In Law. Her law career spans thirty-two Curriculum (Carolina Academic addition, she is an avid reader of years, and has encompassed an array Press), released in October 2004. fiction and consequently very of experience, including service to Professor Heminway has also been interested in legal storytelling. She Michigan's Court of Appeals and elected to the American Law participated in the 2008 Applied Supreme Court, nine years as an Institute, is President-Elect and a Legal Storytelling Conference and administrative law judge on the member of the Board of Trustees of published an article, When the Truth Michigan Tax Tribunal, nine years as the Southeastern Association of Law and the Story Collide: What Legal a partner in the tax department of the Schools, is a member of the Hamilton Writers Can Learn from the Experience Midwest law firm of Howard & Burnett Chapter of the American Inns of Non-Fiction Writers about the Limits Howard Attorneys, and eleven years of Court, and is Past President of the of Legal Storytelling in the Fall 2010 as a clinical professor. She has loved Faculty Senate for UT‟s two edition of Legal Writing: the Journal Knoxville campuses. of the Legal Writing Institute. the art of story since childhood and always seeks to instill in her students  Lucy Jewel is an Associate  Liz Keyes has been a the ability to ably frame their clients' Professor at Atlanta‟s John Marshall Practitioner-in-Residence with the narratives. Law School, where she is in her Immigrant Justice Clinic at American  Joan MacLeod Heminway is seventh year of teaching. She has University's Washington College of Distinguished Professor of Law at taught Legal Writing, Advanced Law since 2009, and she also teaches The University of Tennessee (UT) Appellate Advocacy, Client non-clinical courses in the area of College of Law in Knoxville and a Interviewing and Counseling, Pretrial Immigration Law. Prior to joining fellow of the Center for Business and Litigation, and Transactional the faculty, she was a supervising Economic Research, the Center for Drafting. Professor Jewel‟s attorney at WEAVE (Women the Study of Social Justice, and the scholarship focuses on the Empowered Against Violence), where Center for Corporate Governance at intersections between culture, she provided legal services to UT-Knoxville. When she joined the technology, rhetoric, and law. Before immigrant survivors of domestic UT College of Law faculty in she came into law teaching, she violence; she assisted dozens of Professor Heminway brought nearly litigated commercial cases in New immigrant domestic violence 15 years of corporate transactional York City, focusing on real estate, survivors with their protection order, legal practice experience, having construction, intellectual property, divorce, custody and child support worked in the areas of public and corporate disputes, in trial and cases, as well as working the many appellate settings. immigration remedies available to offerings, private placements, these clients. Before WEAVE, Liz mergers, acquisitions, dispositions,  Steve Johansen, conference co- and restructurings in the Boston spent three years as a Skadden fellow organizer, is a dreamer. But he's not and staff attorney at CASA of office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, the only one. He has been telling Meagher & Flom LLP since 1985. Maryland, working on the civil and stories at Lewis and Clark Law immigration aspects of labor Professor Heminway‟s scholarship School since 1988. He lives in focuses on securities disclosure law exploitation cases, litigating in state, Portland with his wife Lenore and federal and immigration courts. She and policy (especially under Rule 10b- Quigley, the couch-eating dog. He 5) and corporate governance issues focused particularly on trafficked likes his Sox red and his beer black. domestic workers, and their under federal and state law. She Imagine that. coauthored (with Douglas M. exploitation by diplomats. Before law Branson, Mark J. Loewenstein, Marc  Jeanne Kaiser, Associate school, she spent several years I. Steinberg & Manning G. Warren, Professor of Legal Research and working on African policy and III) a business law text, released in Writing, Western New England development issues with Catholic 2008, entitled Business Enterprises: University School of Law- Professor Relief Services, the World Bank and Legal Structures, Governance, and Policy Kaiser has been a member of the legal the United Nations Development (LexisNexis). In addition, her edited/ research and writing faculty at Program, throughout Africa. She coauthored book, Martha Stewart’s Western New England for the past received her law degree magna cum Legal Troubles, was released in 2007 thirteen years. In addition to teaching laude from Georgetown University (Carolina Academic Press). She has first year students, she works with Law Center, a Master in Public served as a commentator, expert the law school‟s appellate moot court Affairs from Princeton University, witness, and consultant on corporate team program and judicial externship and a B.A. in African Development Studies from Carleton College. finance and federal and state program. Professor Kaiser also is a corporate and securities law matters member of the Massachusetts  Almas Khan is an Assistant School of Law in 1991, and a Masters Practitioner-in-Residence at the Professor of Law at the University of of Library Science from Rutgers Washington College of Law at La Verne College of Law in Ontario, University School of Communication American University, and was a California. Before joining the faculty and Information in 1997. Following Robert Cover Teaching Fellow at the at La Verne Law, she was a full-time graduation from law school, Professor Yale Law School. The LSU Family nd rd Lecturer of Law at the University of King was employed as an associate Mediation Clinic trains 2 and 3 Miami School of Law. There, in attorney at the Philadelphia law firms year law students in domestic addition to legal writing, she taught a of Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis; mediation, and they mediate cases seminar on political influences on the Piper & Marbury; and, Pepper, referred by the East Baton Rouge judiciary and, with the law school‟s Hamilton & Scheetz. Parish Family Court. The Clinic dean and a colleague, co-taught an Professor King was Assistant focuses on the facilitative and Elements of Law course that inspired Professor of Law, and Reference and transformative models of mediation her presentation at this year‟s Applied Interlibrary Loan Librarian, at and works to enhance the relationship Legal Storytelling Conference. Last Rutgers University School of Law- between parties rather than just Camden from 1997 until she joined resolve their immediate conflict. year, Almas graduated with a Master‟s of Arts in English from the the faculty at Widener in July 2003. Professor King lives in NW  Betsy Lenhart is an Assistant University of California – Irvine, Professor of Practice at the where she received an Award of Philadelphia with her partner and two sons, ages 9 and 5. When she is University of Cincinnati, College of Distinction for her master‟s thesis, Law, where she has just completed entitled Lord Jim, the Imperial not teaching legal writing and research or encouraging her students her second year of teaching. Prior to Romance, and the Romance of teaching law, Betsy worked as a Imperialism. She also earned a to achieve greatness, Professor King can be found cooking, watching re- litigator at the Cincinnati-based firm Bachelor of Arts in English from of Frost Brown Todd, where she was Stanford University and continued to runs of Dexter and Six Feet Under, reading mystery novels, cheering for a member of the firm's complex take literature classes related to law business litigation team. Pre- while earning her J.D. from the the Phillies, or attending her older son‟s many baseball games. She dating both of those jobs, however, University of Chicago Law School, Betsy taught Latin American History reflecting her longstanding volunteers regularly at her children‟s school, but has so far successfully at Indiana University, Bloomington fascination with the nexus between and the University of Cincinnati. law and literature. More recently, evaded a term as PTO President. She has an emerging interest in legal Betsy is currently working on two Almas published her first major law articles. The first, “History Lessons review article, “A Compendium of scholarship that uses the world outside of legal studies – in this case, for Lawyers and Law Professors: Legal Writing Sources,” in the Using Historical Pedagogy in Legal Winter 2011 issue of the Washburn the Passover seder – as inspiration for deeply engaged, learner-centered Research and Writing,” incorporates Law Journal. the themes from two recent pedagogy. Professor King looks conference presentations, and the  Derek Kiernan-Johnson studies forward to Passover all year long. second, “Defining the “A” in FAPE: how lawyers and judges write, why  Professor Stefan Krieger Why „Free Appropriate Public they write that way, and what can be teaches at Hofstra University School Education‟ Requires a Clearer done about it. He also studies what of Law and is Director of its Center Definition,” examines the statutory they find persuasive. Narrative for Applied Legal Reasoning. He is co deficiencies of one of the fundamental theory, visual rhetoric, and provisions of the Individuals with typography are among his current -author of Essential Lawyering Skills Disabilities Education Act. This May, interests. Through teaching, he (Wolters Kluwer) and a number of Betsy was awarded the Goldman strives to help students gain fluency articles on legal reasoning and Prize for excellence in teaching and confidence in the language of the storytelling. He supervises students awarded annually by UC‟s College of law; chart authentic, meaningful, and in Hofstra‟s Law Reform Advocacy Clinic. Law. sustainable career paths; and think critically about the role of law and  Robert Lancaster is the  Byron Lichstein is the Deputy lawyers in society. He graduated from Singletary Professor and Director of Director of the University of the University of Michigan Law Clinical Legal Education at the Wisconsin Law School‟s Frank J. School and Princeton University. Remington Center. He has taught in Louisiana State University Law the Remington Center‟s prison-based  Susan A. King is a Legal Center. He currently teaches the clinical programs since 2003. Writing Professor at Widener's Family Mediation Clinic and the Working with students and Delaware campus. Professor King Family Law and Family Violence colleagues, he has litigated numerous received an A.B. in the History of Clinic. Prior to LSU, Lancaster was criminal appeals in state and federal Religion from Bryn Mawr College in on the faculty at Indiana University courts. He has helped refine the 1986, a J.D. from Temple University School of Law – Indianapolis, was classroom curriculum for his clinical courses. He and his colleagues have academia, Robert practised as a defending juveniles and adults advanced policy efforts and amicus common law barrister for five years accused of crimes. Professor Miller briefs on numerous issues, mostly in Middle Temple (Called by has also taught legal ethics, focusing on the causes of wrongful Lincoln‟s Inn in 1978), appearing in a evidentiary foundations, and a convictions. wide range of courts and tribunals simulation based interviewing and

across the South of England. He counseling course to upper level and  Andrea McArdle is professor contributes to several manuals first year students. Professor Miller and director of legal writing at City published by Oxford University Press is a member of the Board of the University of New York School of including Advocacy Skills, Criminal Clinical Legal Education Association Law, where she has shaped the Litigation and Sentencing, and (CLEA), has served on the Board of development of a writing-intensive Evidence. He also writes on Evidence Editors of the Clinical Law Review, curriculum and teaches writing from for the All England Law Reports and was a founding board member of a judicial perspective, scholarly Annual Reviews. He is accredited by the Board of Directors of the Mid- writing, the first-year lawyering the Inns of Court Advocacy Training Atlantic Innocence Project, which seminar, and, new this year, land use Committee as an advocacy trainer and seeks the exoneration of individuals and community lawyering. Before has trained advocates in the UK, who have been convicted of crimes joining the CUNY faculty, she taught Canada and Norway but is always that they did not commit. Professor in the Lawyering Program at NYU willing to go somewhere warmer. Miller writes in the area of lawyering School of Law, and at various times Robert has been an external examiner theory and practice, with an emphasis was the program‟s faculty coordinator for several universities, including the on client-centered storytelling. Before and coordinator of the Lawyering Queen‟s University, Belfast and the she joined the WCL faculty, Professor Theory Workshop. Andrea writes in University of Northumbria. Robert Miller worked as a civil rights the subject areas of law and society, has a research interest in the subject attorney with the United States including urban, suburban, and of persuasion and in particular, the Department of Justice, and served as community studies, on law, rhetoric, use of stories as persuasive tools. He a law clerk to the late Honorable and narrative, and on pedagogy. She has presented several conference Barrington D. Parker of the United has co-edited, and is a contributor to, papers on this topic; for example at States District Court for the District the anthologies Uniform Behavior: the 2nd Applied Legal Storytelling of Columbia. She received her B.A. Police Localism and National Politics Conference (Why isn’t the English legal magna cum laude from Carleton (Palgrave Macmillan 2006) and Zero profession interested in storytelling? La College and is a cum laude graduate of Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New lotta continua, Portland, 2009); at the the University of Chicago Law Police Brutality in New York City Learning in Law Annual Conference School. She is a member of Phi Beta (NYU Press 2001). She holds a J.D. (Whose ‘version’ of the facts? Working on Kappa. and Ph.D. (American Studies) from the margins of outsiders’ stories and Amy Montemarano currently New York University, and an LL.M. lawyers’ theories of the case, Warwick,  and M.A. (English) from Columbia UK, 2009); and at the International is a Visiting Assistant Professor at University. Drexel University Earle Mack School Conference on Practising Law of Law. She joined the Earle Mack  Robert McPeake, conference co (‘You’ve got seven children by six fathers?’’Five’, said Karen: Looking at School of Law in its inaugural year in -organizer, is currently a Principal 2006 and was the Assistant Dean of Outsider stories and Lawyers’ Theories Lecturer at The City Law School, Career & Professional Development of the Case, London, 2010), all co- part of City University London, (and through 2010. Prior to joining the authored with Marcus Soanes. This formerly known as the Inns of Court Earle Mack School of Law, she taught research plays a significant role in School of Law). He has taught at the legal research and writing at Rutgers Robert‟s work on the LLM Advocacy law school since 1983 and played a School of Law – Camden, served as a module. Robert is happy to be called significant role in developing the Bar long-term law clerk for a federal Rob and is currently studying Vocational Course which began in district judge, and practiced law in towards an MSc in Forensic 1989. This involves training and Philadelphia at both a large, multi- Psychology and Criminology in his assessing students in legal skills as practice law firm and a small firm well as knowledge. Robert‟s main job free time. specializing in toxic torts and civil is to teach on what is now called the  Professor Binny Miller is a rights. Her courses at the Earle Mack Bar Professional Training Course; in Professor of Law and the Director of School of Law include Legal 2010-11, he found himself the Criminal Justice Clinic at Methods, Legal Research & Writing unexpectedly enjoying co-creating a American University‟s Washington for Judicial Clerkships, Writing new module in Legal Ethics. His real College of Law (WCL), where she has Strategies for the Bar, and the passion can be found in the LLM in taught for 23 years. In her clinical Marshall Brennan Constitutional Criminal Litigation where he teaches teaching, Professor Miller teaches a Literary Project seminar. She on the Advocacy and Evidence seminar about criminal defense graduated from the University of modules, as well as being the course advocacy and supervises law students director. Before switching to Virginia, and with honors from writing. She is currently writing a removal cases against U.S. residents Rutgers School of Law – Camden. series of articles about the persuasive who assisted in Nazi persecution writings of United States Presidents. during World War II. From 2004 to  Professor Myra Orlen has been Oseid begins by identifying the 2007, he was the lead attorney on the a member of the legal research and qualities of a particular President‟s U.S. Government‟s deportation case writing faculty at Western New writing. She then searches for against John Demjanjuk, a former England for fifteen years. In addition influences that fostered that quality. Nazi death camp guard. In 2008, he to teaching first year and advanced She also studies the President‟s received the Assistant Attorney legal research and writing classes, writing habits, and considers how General‟s Award for Human Rights Professor Orlen works with the law modern-day lawyers can adopt those Law Enforcement. He is a 1994 school‟s appellate moot court same habits to increase their graduate of the University of program and public interest and persuasiveness. Oseid has published Maryland School of Law and served government externship program. articles about Abraham Lincoln as a clerk to the Hon. Arrie W. Davis Additionally, Professor Orlen teaches (brevity), Thomas Jefferson (use of on the Maryland Court of Special classes on alternate dispute metaphor), and James Madison Appeals. resolution. Professor Orlen is a family (rigor). Her next two projects will mediator and a former domestic examine the writings of Ulysses  Mark Rabil is an assistant relations lawyer. Professor Orlen Grant and Teddy Roosevelt. capital defender in Forsyth County currently serves as a mediator in the whose zealous advocacy led to the on-site introductory mediation  Cathren Page is an Assistant release and exoneration of Darryl program at the Hampshire County Professor at Barry University School Hunt after 19 years of incarceration. Probate and Family Court in of Law. Page practiced for seven Since 2003, Rabil has been an Northampton, Massachusetts and as a years before the Texas courts of assistant capital defender in North consulting mediator with The appeals and the Supreme Court of Carolina and represents individuals Mediation and Training Texas and has received an ABA who are charged with first-degree Collaborative in Greenfield, award for a pro bono family law murder and face the death penalty. Massachusetts. pamphlet that she produced. Rabil is the Co-Director of the the Subsequently, she was a quarter- Innocence and Justice Clinic at Wake  Professor Mark K. Osbeck finalist in American Screenwriter‟s Forest University School of Law, teaches in the Legal Practice Association Screenplay Competition. supervising attorney for the Trial Program at the University of Then she obtained her MFA in Advocacy Clinic since 1983 and as an Michigan Law School. His principal Writing for Children and Young adjunct professor of trial advocacy interests involve legal research, legal- Adults at Vermont College where she since 2003. In 2004, the North writing theory, and the personal completed two Young Adult Novels. Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers stories behind landmark Supreme She taught Legal Writing and awarded Rabil the Thurgood Court cases. He is the author of Research and Appellate Advocacy for Marshall Award for his work Impeccable Research: A Concise Guide to three years at Golden Gate School of representing Darryl Hunt. Mastering Legal Research Skills (West Law and is currently working on The 2010). Professor Osbeck has practiced Drowning Song, a young adult novel  Anthony F. Renzo is Professor law extensively as a commercial about a siren named Song, who is of Law and Associate Director of the litigator and was a shareholder at a coming of age. Song encourages Page Legal Writing Program at Vermont large firm in Denver before joining to go to the beach whenever possible. Law School. In addition to legal the Michigan faculty in 2001. He writing, Renzo has taught courses in earned his undergraduate and law  Stephen Paskey teaches legal constitutional law and litigation at degrees from the University of analysis, writing and research at the Vermont Law School, the University Michigan, and an M.A. in philosophy University at Buffalo Law School. of Colorado School of Law, and from the Johns Hopkins University. Before he began teaching in 2007, he Golden Gate Law School. Renzo Following his graduation from law served as a trial attorney with the clerked for the Chief Justice of the school, he served as a judicial clerk United States Department of Justice Colorado Supreme Court, was a trial with Justice Charles Levin of the in Washington, D.C. He entered DOJ lawyer for 25 years, and served as Michigan Supreme Court. Director of the California Bar in 1995 through the Attorney General‟s Honors Program and Examination. His publications include  Professor Julie Oseid is an a major law review article exploring Associate Professor of Law at the worked for three years as a trial attorney for the former Immigration the constitutional limits on the use of University of St. Thomas School of military tribunals in the war against Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She and Naturalization Service. From 1998 to 2007, he served as a Senior terrorism. Renzo received his BA teaches Lawyering Skills and (In) from the University of Iowa and his Famous American Criminal Trials. Trial Attorney in the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), where he JD from the University of Colorado Her scholarship has focused on two School of Law. areas: professionalism and persuasive litigated denaturalization and  Reza Rezvani is currently the design and digital narratives. In 2005 I spent five years as an academic Clinical Fellow in the Law Reform he introduced a new interdisciplinary dean. I spent one sabbatical serving as Advocacy Clinic at Hofstra unit on Law, Literature and Film (the a legal services lawyer in eastern University School of Law. Over the first of its kind in the UK), which Kentucky and another conducting a last year, he has worked with 16 includes an annual „Legal Cinema‟ quantitative empirical study of pro students to help prepare a major season of screenings that are open to bono. These experiences led to my Federal Fair Housing Act case for a 3 all university staff and students. He most recent book, Thorns and Roses: -5 week trial. Prior to working for has presented many conference Lawyers Tell Their Pro Bono Stories, an Hofstra, Mr. Rezvani worked for papers on legal pedagogy, media law, anthology of a dozen first-person several firms which specialized in the and law, literature and film, most narratives that I shaped out of trial of a wide variety of cases on recently at the Association of Law interviews using skills acquired behalf of individuals who have been Teachers conference at Cardiff through a Master Track Program in seriously injured and whose civil University (April 2011). He is an Creative nonfiction at the Loft Editorial Board member of The Law Literary Center in Minneapolis. rights have been violated. He has Teacher: International Journal of the tried over 30 jury trials, with a  Jennifer Sheppard is Associate majority going to verdict, and has Association of Law Teachers (London: Routledge) and is Chair of the Professor of Law at Mercer Law obtained favorable settlements on School, where she has been on the behalf of his clients in countless other Management Board of the University of Plymouth Press. Hugo is actively faculty since 2006. At Mercer, in cases. Mr. Rezvani‟s verdicts have addition to teaching legal writing and been published in the New York Law involved in legal education, and is a past Chair of the Association of Law in the judicial externship program, Journal and the Jury Verdict she administers the Advanced Legal Reporter. Mr. Rezvani is also Teachers (www.lawteacher.ac.uk). He has organised several major legal Writing Certificate Program. Before currently an Adjunct Professor of joining the Mercer faculty, Jennifer Law at Fordham Law School, where conferences, including the 44th Annual ALT conference in taught legal writing for four years at he teaches trial advocacy by Appalachian School of Law and West preparing students for mock trial Amsterdam (April 2009) and the Law, Literature and Film symposium, held Virginia University College of Law. competitions. Prior to his work at Her most recent publications are In Fordham, he served as an Adjunct at the University of Plymouth in September 2009. Chambers: A Guide for Judicial Externs Professor at Hofstra Law School, and Clerks (forthcoming Aspen 2012) where he also prepared students for  Ruth Anne Robbins, Clinical and Once Upon A Time, Happily Ever trial competitions. Mr. Rezvani Professor of Law, Director of After, and In A Galaxy Far, Far Away: received his B.A. degree from Lawyering Programs. Rutgers School Using Narrative to Fill the Cognitive Binghamton University, and his J.D of Law – Camden. Gap Left by Overreliance on Pure Logic from Hofstra University School of As Creator: Conference co-organizer. in Appellate Briefs and Motion Law. As Orphan: Because I wanted company Memoranda, 46 WILLAMETTE L. REV.  Chris Rideout is at the Seattle thinking about legal storytelling. 255 (2009), which won the Eisenberg University School of Law, where he As Caretaker: Please, let me help you Prize for the best article on appellate has taught for the last thirty years. consider publishing in LEG. COMM. & practice and procedure from the His recent research interests include RHET.: JALWD. American Academy of Appellate publications in narrative and legal Lawyers. As Lover: How do I love thee, LWI? persuasion; in legal metaphor; and in Let me count the ways.  Lou Sirico is Professor of Law voice and discoursal identity in legal As Sage: The borrowed & altered and Director of Legal Writing at the writing. quote in the above “lover” line failed Villanova University School of Law. in its ethos because it was neither  Hugo de Rijke is Associate He is coauthor of Schultz & Sirico, creative nor clever. Professor in Law and Digital Arts at "Legal Writing and Other Lawyering the University of Plymouth, England. As Warrior: I vow to slay villainous Skills" (Aspen) and Sirico & Schultz, He holds a BA(Joint Hons) in Law formatting in legal documents. Persuasive Legal Writing (Aspen). In and Literature at Keele University; As Magician: Lumos! addition to topics related to Legal and an MA in English and American As Jester: A fool‟s wit is encoded truth. Writing, he writes about American Cultural Studies at Exeter University. As Everyperson: Yeah, that‟s great. Constitutional Law at the nation's After qualifying as a barrister When is this bio going to end? founding.

(Lincoln‟s Inn), he has taught  Professor Charlene Smith has Contract Law, Advocacy and Media  Deborah Schmedemann has taught some form of research and Law at the University of Plymouth been teaching at William Mitchell writing class since she began teaching Law School. He also teaches Digital College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota in law school. She is currently part of Art and Technology in the School of since 1980, focusing on first-year the Lawyering Skills and Values Art and Media, including videogame skills, contracts, and employment law; faculty at Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Roth & Zabel LLP in New York City, religious and cultural identity of large Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. In her and she was a Forrester Fellow at law firms. Prof. Wald, a CLE instructor, „prior‟ law school life, Professor Smith Tulane Law School before joining the legal ethics expert commentator for was a history and political science Mercer Faculty in 2006. Her LexisNexis and expert witness, is a professor. She has an advanced scholarly agenda draws from member of the Colorado Supreme degree that focused on oral history. composition theory and linguistics in Court Standing Committee on the The „cross over‟ between the works such as “Speaking for the Colorado Rules of Professional disciplines naturally involves „story Dead: Voice in Last Wills and Conduct and a member of the telling‟ hence her interest in the Testaments” and “In The Name of Colorado State Bar Association’s Ethics God, Amen: Evolution of Language subject area. Professor Smith is also Committee. the faculty director of the Inter- in Wills.” Also, Karen co-authors a American Center for Human Rights. regular column entitled “Writing  Helena Whalen-Bridge is Matters” in the Georgia Bar Journal, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law,  Michael R. Smith is a Professor has presented at a number of National University of Singapore. of Law and the Director of Legal conferences, and is active in the Legal Helena ran the first year legal skills Writing at the University of Writing Institute. programme for at NUS for many Wyoming College of Law. Professor  David Thomson, conference co- years and now specializes in upper Smith has taught legal writing for organizer, is LP Professor and class and graduate legal skills. She more than 20 years. His primary Director of the Lawyering Process currently teaches Legal Argument areas of scholarly interest are the Program at the University of and Narrative, Legal Ethics, and psychology of written persuasion and, Denver‟s Sturm College of Law, and Comparative Advocacy, and her more generally, the cognitive is the conference host for the Applied primary research interests are processes underlying effective legal Legal Storytelling Conference, narrative, legal ethics and legal writing. He has written and spoken Chapter 3. He also teaches a education. Her recent articles include on these topics extensively. His most Discovery Law Practicum, and has “The Lost Narrative: The Connection notable work in this area is his book, taught Administrative Law as well, Between Legal Narrative and Legal Advanced Legal Writing: Theories and and has written and presented Ethics”, 17 Journal of the Association of Strategies in Persuasive Writing (Aspen Legal Writing Directors (Fall 2010, st extensively on the intersection of Pub. 1 ed. 2002, 2d ed. 2008), which technology and legal education. Special Issue on Metaphor & explores strategies in persuasive legal David serves on the University‟s Narrative) and “Challenges to Pro writing from the standpoints of a Distance Learning Council as well as Bono Work in the Corporate Context: number of other disciplines, such as the Board of Trustees‟ Technology Means Testing and the Non-Profit cognitive psychology, discursive Futures Committee. He is the author Applicant” (2010) 13 Legal Ethics 65. psychology, classical rhetoric, literary of Law School 2.0: Legal Education for Before joining academia, Helena was theory, and morality theory. Prof. a Digital Age (LexisNexis/Matthew a trial attorney with the California Smith has served on the Board of Bender 2009), and recently published Attorney General‟s Office and a Directors of both the Legal Writing the hybrid law text Skills & Values: transactional lawyer in Japan and Institute and the Association of Legal Discovery Practice (LexisNexis/ Singapore. Writing Directors. He was also a Matthew Bender 2010). In 2008, founding member of the Editorial  Pam Wilkins is an Associate David was invited to join the Lexis Committee for the Journal of the Professor of Law at the University of Publications Advisory Board. More Association of Legal Writing Detroit Mercy School of Law, where info about David can be found here: Directors (J.ALWD) and was the she teaches Applied Legal Theory www.law.du.edu/thomson. creator of the Journal‟s unique and Analysis (the school's legal mission, which is to publish empirical  Eli Wald holds SJD and LLM writing course), Criminal Law, and interdisciplinary works that degrees from Harvard Law School and Criminal Procedure, and a course on explore the substantive nature of LLB and BA degrees from Tel-Aviv capital punishment. She has published effective legal writing and written University. Prior to joining the a number of articles on the Eighth advocacy. J.ALWD has recently been University of Denver Sturm College of Amendment and capital punishment. renamed Legal Communication & Law he was a litigation associate at This is her first foray into applied Rhetoric: J.ALWD. legal storytelling. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &  Karen J. Sneddon is an Garrison in New York City. Wald’s  Phoebe Zerwick is a lecturer in Associate Professor at Mercer Law academic interests include the the English Department at Wake School where she teaches in the areas American legal profession, legal ethics Forest University where she teaches of legal writing, client counseling, and corporate law. His recent research first-year writing and journalism. She and trusts and estates. She graduated has examined topics such as attorneys’ is an award-winning investigative summa cum laude from Tulane Law loyalty to clients, increased lawyer reporter and narrative writer. She School. Karen practiced law in the mobility, attorney-client spent more than 20 years as a area of trusts and estates at Schulte communications and the ethno- reporter, columnist and editor at the Winston-Salem Journal, and has worked as a freelance writer, consultant and multimedia storyteller. She graduated from Columbia University with an MS in Journalism and lives in Winston- Salem with her husband and their three children.

 Cliff Zimmerman spent the first part of his career in legal education teaching legal writing and the latter (and current) part as dean of students. His areas of expertise and interest include legal analysis, writing, and research, civil rights, government accountability, informants and wrongful convictions, law and leadership, and legal education generally. His time teaching legal analysis, research, and writing also sparked his interest and research in, and advocacy for, collaborative and cooperative learning in legal education.

 Heather Zuber-Harshman was a civil litigator in Southern California for seven years prior to becoming a full-time professor. She has served as a Director of Academic Success and a Director of Legal Writing. She is currently a legal writing professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego and a freelance writer. She has presented at numerous regional and national conferences and workshops.