Earle Mack School of Law: Visiting Faculty
Aimée Kahan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Office: Room 334 - Phone: 215-571-4741 - aimee.l.kahan@drexel.edu
Administrative Support: Donna Strunk - Phone: 215-571-4802 - donna.a.strunk@drexel.edu
J.D., summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
M.A., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., summa cum laude, Harvard University
Before coming to the Earle Mack School of Law, Professor Kahan practiced appellate law in the state and federal courts with Reed Smith, LLP. She is particularly interested in issues of appellate law and the functioning of our court and judicial systems, bioethics, reproductive rights, and the intersection of religion and law. Professor Kahan previously clerked for the Honorable Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Course: Appellate Advocacy; Federal Courts; Reproductive Rights Law
Amy Montemarano, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Office: Room 354 - Phone: 215-571-4746 - amy.l.montemarano@drexel.edu
Administrative Support: Anne Marie Cellucci - Phone: 215-571-4701 - anne.marie.cellucci@drexel.edu
J.D., with honors, Rutgers School of Law - Camden
B.A., University of Virginia
Professor Montemarano, previously the assistant dean for Career and Professional Development, joined the Earle Mack School of Law after teaching legal research and writing at Rutgers School of Law - Camden and serving as a long-term law clerk for the Honorable Robert B. Kugler, United States District Judge. She practiced law in Philadelphia at both a large, multi-practice law firm and a small firm specializing in toxic torts and civil rights. She was an author and editor for the Rutgers Law Journal.
Courses: Legal Methods I; Marshall-Brennan; Writing Strategies for the Bar
Fernanda Nicola , Visiting Professor of Law
Office: Room 272 - Phone: 215-571-4812 - fernanda.g.nicola@drexel.edu
Administrative Support: Anne Marie Cellucci - Phone: 215-571-4701 anne.marie.cellucci@drexel.edu
S.J.D., Harvard Law School
Ph.D., University of Trento, Italy
LL.M., Harvard University
Law Degree (Laurea in Legge), University of Turin, Italy
B.A. (Laurea in Scienze Politiche), University of Turin
A member of the full-time faculty at American University Washington College of Law, Professor Nicola's scholarship focuses on European and comparative law, European Union law and contracts and torts. Her articles have appeared in the American University International Law Review, Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law and the Harvard International Law Journal. Professor Nicola previously taught at Harvard Law School and the University of Turin Law School.
Courses: Comparative Law; European Union Law
Pammela Quinn Saunders, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Office: Room 264 - Phone: 215-571-4734 - pammela.q.saunders@drexel.edu
Administrative Support: Donna Strunk - Phone: 215-571-4802 - donna.a.strunk@drexel.edu
J.D., summa cum laude, Duke University School of Law
A.B., cum laude, Dartmouth College
Professor Saunders is a former attorney-adviser with the U.S. Department of State's Office of the Legal Adviser. In that capacity, she represented the U.S. in complex transactions involving diplomatic properties in foreign countries. A former Bristow Fellow with the U.S. Office of the Solicitor General, she clerked for Judge Paul V. Niemeyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and practiced with O'Melveny & Myers, LLP in Washington.
Courses: Civil Procedure; International Business Transactions; Public International Law
Kathryn M. Stanchi, Visiting Professor of Law
Office: Room 332 - Phone: 215-571-4795 - kathryn.m.stanchi@drexel.edu
Administrative Support: Donna Strunk - Phone: 215-571-4802 - donna.a.strunk@drexel.edu
J.D., Boston University School of Law
B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Professor Stanchi is a professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law where her teaching areas include legal research and writing, appellate advocacy and law and feminism. Previously, she was an associate in Debevoise & Plimpton's Litigation Department. Professor Stanchi clerked for Justice Stewart G. Pollock of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Course: Law, Feminism, and Gender; Legal Methods I and II
Secondary Appointments
David DeMatteo, Co-Director of the J.D.-Ph.D. Program and Assistant Professor of Psychology
J.D., Villanova University School of Law
Ph.D., MCP Hahnemann University
M.A., MCP Hahnemann University
B.A., Rutgers University
Professor DeMatteo joined the Drexel University Department of Psychology since 2006. A research scientist, licensed psychologist and certified forensic evaluator, he has taught at the Villanova and Rutgers universities. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice and American Psychology-Law Society News.
Course: Mental Health Law
Kirk S. Heilbrun, Professor of Psychology and Head of Drexel University Department of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin
A.B., (with honors), Brown University
Professor Heilbrun has headed the Drexel University Department of Psychology since 2002. He previously chaired the Psychology Department at MCP Hahnemann University and co-directed the Law and Psychology Program offered by Hahnemann and the Villanova University School of Law. He has taught at the University of Virginia and the Medical College of Virginia.
Course: Mental Health Law
David O'Brien, Associate Teaching Professor, Drexel University Goodwin College of Professional Studies
J.D., Seton Hall Law School
B.S., Moravian College
Professor O'Brien directs Drexel's Sport Management program and serves as auxiliary professor at the Goodwin College of Professional Studies. He has served as Athletic Director at three Division I schools, Assistant to the President for Legal and Legislative Affairs at Montclair State University in New Jersey and on the legislative staff for the New Jersey Senate. The co-author of Managing Athletics Legally: A Proactive Guide for Athletic Administrators, he writes a monthly article for College Athletics and the Law newsletter.
Course: Sports Law
Natalie Pedersen, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, LeBow College of Business
J.D., Harvard Law School
B.S., Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Pedersen joined the LeBow faculty in 2011. She was an assistant teaching professor at the law school from 2010 through 2011, a visiting assistant professor from 2008 to 2010 and an adjunct professor from 2007-2008. She is a former associate at Ballard Spahr and clerked for Judge Marjorie O. Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Course: Employment Law
Earle Mack School of Law: Adjunct Faculty
Victor Abreu
J.D., City University of New York School of Law
B.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Professor Abreu is assistant federal defender for the Capital Habeas Corpus Unit of the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Since 1999, he has represented indigent death row prisoners in all aspects of state and federal post-conviction proceedings. He was previously assistant federal defender for the Southern District of Texas.
Course: Death Penalty Law
David M. Albert
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
M.A., Columbia University
B.A., Emory University
Professor Albert is an attorney in the Intellectual Property Practice Group and a member of the China Practice Group at Cozen O'Connor. Prior to joining the firm, he was a vice president in the Securitized Products Group at Deutsche Bank Securities in New York and an associate in the Global Finance Group at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York. He has extensive experience handling many types of corporate law and structured finance transactions. He speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese and is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Course: Chinese Law
Elton M. Anglada
J.D., Temple University School of Law
B.S., Trenton State College
Professor Anglada currently serves as the assistant chief of the Juvenile Unit for the Philadelphia Defender Association, where he has worked as an attorney for nearly 20 years, and is president of the Juvenile Defenders Association of Pennsylvania. Previously, he worked in the Major Crimes Unit as a trial attorney and taught the Criminal Defense Clinical Program at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Course: Juvenile Justice Law
Daniel E. Bacine
J.D., Villanova University School of Law
B.S., Temple University
Professor Bacine is a partner with Barrack, Rodos & Bacine. An experienced civil litigator in both the federal and state courts, he has tried jury and non-jury securities and commercial cases, and has been appointed lead or co-lead counsel in various securities and consumer class actions. Professor Bacine is currently serving as vice-chair of the Jewish Publishing Group and also serves on the board of the Philadelphia chapter of the Anti-Defamation League.
Course: Class Actions and Other Complex Litigation
The Honorable Mark I. Bernstein
J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law
B.A., St. John's College
Judge Bernstein has has served as a judge of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania since April, 1987. Judge Bernstein is the author of the comprehensive commentary on Pennsylvania Evidence published by Gann Press. He is the recipient of the Foundation for the Improvement of Justice, Inc. Award and the Lawdragon Magazine "100 Best Judges in the United States." He has taught judges and lawyers across the U.S., including teaching at the National Judicial College. He designed the Philadelphia case management system, which brings all civil cases to trial within two years and has made the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas a model for state court case management.
Courses: Advanced Evidence; Pennsylvania Practice; Trial Advocacy
Nadeem A. Bezar
J.D., Temple University Beasley School of Law
M.A., University of Massachusetts
B.A., Bates College
Professor Bezar is a partner with Kolsby, Gordon, Robin, Shore & Bezar, where his practice concentrates on medical negligence and other cases involving catastrophic personal injuries. He has obtained seven-figure verdicts in cases that seemed like longshots, earning him recognition from the Legal Intelligencer as a Rising Star Among the Minority Bar.
Course: Interviewing, Negotiation and Counseling
Sophie Bryan
J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School
A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard College
Professor Bryan is chief of staff to Philadelphia City Councilman Bill Green. Previously, she was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Office of the U.S. Attorney in Delaware, prosecuting federal crimes that include identity theft, credit card fraud, bank fraud, terroristic threats, and firearms offenses. Bryan also was an associate in the Health Effects Litigation Practice Group at Pepper Hamilton, LLP.
Courses: Litigation Drafting; Public Interest Practice
Kathleen B. Campbell
J.D., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School
B.A., cum laude, Villanova University
Professor Campbell is a partner at Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, where her practice focuses on environmental, toxic tort, and class action litigation, as well as on regulatory compliance matters particularly involving federal, state, and interstate water pollution. She has represented industrial and commercial entities, as well as closely held companies, in complex environmental litigation matters and has had extensive involvement with activities related to total maximum daily loads for toxic pollutants in the Delaware Estuary, advocating on behalf of individuals and a regional coalition of industrial and municipal dischargers.
Course: Toxic Torts
Martha Candiello
J.D., Rutgers University School of Law-Camden
B.A., Cornell University
Martha Candiello is the Associate Dean for Career Strategies at the law school overseeing all career service functions including development of internship and job opportunities, professional development and career programming, student counseling, recruitment events, and employer outreach. Previously, she served as the general counsel of Sunoco Chemicals where she was responsible for the management of all legal affairs for the business from 2003 to 2006. From 1979 to 2000, she rose through the ranks of the Corporate Legal Department of Rohm and Haas Company, where she served as strategic business counsel for a $1.2 billion business group from 1998 through 2000.
Course: Transitioning to Law Firm Practice
John Cannan
J.D., University of Maryland School of Law
MLS, University of Maryland College of Library and Information Science
Professor Cannan is a research and instructional services librarian at the Earle Mack School of Law Legal Research Center. He has practiced historic preservation and land use law in Baltimore and was assistant law librarian at the Montgomery County Circuit Court Law Library in Maryland. Previously, he was a legal information analyst with the Law Library of Congress. He is a frequent writer on legal research topics and author of “Are Public Law Librarians Immune from Suit? Muddying the Already Murky Waters of Law Librarian Liability,” which was published in the Law Library Journal.
Course: Intellectual Property Legal Research
Bart E. Cassidy
J.D., summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School
M.S.C.E., Polytechnic University of New York
B.S., Swarthmore College
Professor Cassidy is a partner at Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, where he assists clients with issues including air and water quality control, waste management, storage tank issues, and business and real estate transactions. He previously served as an analyst with the Grumman Corporation, where he provided expertise to the Fortune 150 Company on environmental, energy, and occupational safety issues. His activities include negotiating a major federal consent decree involving a petroleum refinery enforcement initiative, defending electrical generating units in response to enforcement actions and negotiating wastewater discharge permits.
Course: Environmental Lawyering; Representing the Regulated Client
Cristi A. Charpentier
J.D., City University of New York Law School
B.A., Swarthmore College
Professor Charpentier is an assistant federal defender with the Capital Habeas Corpus Unit of the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. A Fulbright Scholar, Ms. Charpentier was a visiting professor of law at the Universidad Catolica de Temuco in Chile. Previously, she served as director of the Trial Advocacy Programs at the Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Course: Introduction to Trial Advocacy
Scott J. Ciocco
J.D., magna cum laude, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
B.A., La Salle University
Professor Ciocco, a partner at Astor, Weiss, Kaplan & Mandel, LLP, focuses his practice on real estate development and general corporate matters. He has represented developers, commercial landholders of stabilized projects, trustees and stalking horse buyers in bankruptcy or distressed asset sales, corporate and industrial clients, national and regional retailers, and developers of alternative energy projects. Previously, he was a shareholder in a New Jersey-based law firm and served as general counsel and vice president for a commercial real estate management and development company.
Course: Real Estate Transactions
Merritt A. Cole
J.D., with honors, University of Connecticut School of Law
B.A., cum laude, Yale University
Professor Cole is a partner and chair of the Securities Practice Group at White and Williams, LLP, where he represents a broad range of business clients including development-stage companies, publicly-held companies and financial institutions. Previously he was a branch chief in the Division of Market Regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Course: Securities Regulation
Robert E. Connolly
J.D., cum laude, Rutgers-Camden School of Law
B.A., State University of New York-College at Cortland
Professor Connolly is chief of the Antitrust Division of the Philadelphia Field Office of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he supervises 16 attorneys who enforce federal antitrust laws. He has investigated international, national and regional price-fixing cartels and obtained convictions against 45 defendants for bid rigging and price fixing. He has served as an adjunct professor at Rutgers-Camden School of Law.
Course: Antitrust
Paul D. Connuck
J.D., cum laude, Rutgers School of Law-Newark
B.A., magna cum laude, Brooklyn College
Professor Connuck is a partner with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, where his practice concentrates on intellectual property licensing and transactions. He has counseled and litigated in all major areas of intellectual property law on behalf of clients engaged in various industries, including the life sciences (research, development and commercialization of pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices), software and systems development and licensing, e-commerce and web publishing, and designer label licensing. In addition to copyright, trademark, patent and other IP right components, these representations typically involve the resolution of issues of contract, advertising, antitrust and privacy law.
Course: Intellectual Property Licensing
Lawrence Copeland
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
M.A., Georgetown University
B.A., Hobart College
Professor Copeland is a senior attorney with the City of Philadelphia Law Department's Economic Development Division. He is the city's lead attorney in negotiating multi-million dollar agreements, serves as general counsel to the Fairmount Park Commission and the Historical Commission, drafts legislation and has provided the mayor and other city officials with advice on the proposal to relocate the Barnes Museum and other matters. He has served as an adjunct professor at Rutgers-Camden School of Law.
Course: Contract Drafting
Frank Cummings (Guest Lecturer)
LL.B., Columbia University School of Law
M.A., Columbia University
B.A., Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Professor Cummings has been a specialist in pensions, employee benefits, employment and labor law for more than 45 years. A chief architect of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, he wrote the initial draft of the pension-reform bill that became the landmark law while he served as chief-of-staff to the late U.S. Sen. Jacob Javits of New York. He is a former partner and head of the Benefits Practice Group at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene and MacRae and practiced with other firms in New York and Washington. Currently a lecturer in law at the University of Virginia School of Law, he has taught at Columbia University School of Law and New York University Law School.
Course: Employee Benefits Law
Michael A. Curley
J.D., Villanova University
B.A., Drexel University
Professor Curley, founder and managing partner of Curley, Hessinger & Johnsrud, LLP, has broad experience in entertainment law and all aspects of labor and employment law, including employment discrimination, traditional labor law, restructurings and layoffs and breach of contract matters. He is a member of the ABA Labor Section and of the NLRA Practice and Procedure Committee of that Section. He is an emeritus member of the New York University Law School's Labor and Employment Advisory Board.
Course: Entertainment Law
Adam Cutler
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
B.A., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business
Professor Cutler is the director of the Public Health and Environmental Justice Clinic of the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia. Previously, he was a senior associate with Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP litigating complex environmental matters and managing regulatory compliance. He was formerly a senior associate at Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, LLP and an associate at Dechert, LLP.
Clinic: Public Health and Environmental Law Field Clinic I and II
The Honorable Legrome D. Davis
J.D., Rutgers University School of Law
B.A., Princeton University
Judge Davis was appointed to the U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 2002. He previously sat in the Court of Common Pleas, First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, after serving as an assistant district attorney and later as assistant deputy district attorney in Philadelphia.
Course: Advanced Trial Advocacy: Criminal
Tracey E. Diamond
J.D., Columbia University School of Law
B.A., Tufts University
Professor Diamond is counsel at Hyland Levin, LLP, where her practice specializes in employment law, human resources counseling and employment litigation. She clerked for U.S. District Judge Shirley Wohl Kram in the Southern District of New York before handling employment discrimination cases with the New York firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler and later Philadelphia's Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young.
Courses: Contract Drafting; Employment Law
Peter J. Egler
M.L.S., University of Pittsburgh
J.D., Catholic University of America
B.A., cum laude, Villanova University
Professor Egler is the Legal Research Center's Head of Research & Instructional Services. Professor Egler has taught several classes on legal research in California, Texas, and Pennsylvania and regularly teaches classes on Pennsylvania legal research at the law school. Professor Egler has published several articles on legal research topics.
Course: Pennsylvania Legal Research
Veronica Finkelstein
J.D., with honors, Emory University School of Law
B.A., with honors, Pennsylvania State University
Professor Finkelstein is an assistant U.S. attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in Philadelphia. Previously she clerked for Judge Jane Cutler Greenspan of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. She was a Trial Department associate with Duane Morris, LLP, where she handled litigation and mediations involving construction, government contracts and surety law and was vice chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Construction Law Committee.
Course: Appellate Advocacy; Sales
Mindy Friedman
L.L.M., Beasley School of Law at Temple University
J.D., cum laude, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
B.A., magna cum laude, University of Michigan
Professor Friedman is principal of Mindy Friedman, Esq. Consulting, which provides legal, business-related and strategic planning consulting services to creative/media-based, start-up, non-profit and women/minority-owned businesses. Previously, she was senior litigation associate at Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg & Ellers, LLP, handling corporate and complex commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation and employment law.
Courses: Interviewing, Counseling & Negotiation; Contract Drafting
Harold H. Fullmer
J.D., cum laude, Temple University School of Law
B.S., University of Pennsylvania
Professor Fullmer, a partner at Woodcock Washburn, LLP, focuses his practice on patent procurement and patent litigation. In addition to acquiring, enforcing and licensing patents, Professor Fullmer also has experience as an engineer and project manager for the Allis-Chalmers Company and has worked in research and development, focusing on mathematical modeling and computational fluid dynamics.
Course: Patent Prosecution
Sharon Geller
B.S., Temple University
Professor Geller has been a professional actor, writer, director and entertainer for over 20 years, performing on "Saturday Night Live," handling radio and TV commercials, voice-overs and stage work, in addition to appearing in M. Night Shyamalan's "Sixth Sense" and "Wide Awake." For the past 15 years, she has taught comedy improvisation at the Walnut Street Theatre and socio-drama/improvisation at Temple University's Full Circle Intergenerational Theatre, where she has also served as artistic director.
Course: Improvisation for Lawyers
Patrick J. Gibbons
J.D., Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law
B.A., B.S., University of Scranton
Professor Gibbons is a shareholder with Ryan, Brown, Berger & Gibbons, PC where he represents major insurers, handling litigation, mediations and arbitrations. Previously, he was an associate with Labrum and Doak of Philadelphia and with Hourigan, Kluger and Quinn of Wilkes-Barre.
Course: Interviewing, Negotiation and Counseling
The Honorable Mitchell S. Goldberg
J.D., Temple University School of Law
B.A., Ithaca College
Judge Goldberg was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 2008, after having been elected to a 10-year term on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas in 2003. He previously was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a partner with Cozen O'Connor and an assistant district attorney with the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
Course: Advanced Trial Advocacy: Civil; Sentencing Law
Ronda B. Goldfein
J.D., Shepard Broad Law Center of Nova Southeastern University
B.A., University of Miami
Professor Goldfein is the executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, the nation's only independent public interest law firm dedicated solely to helping people with HIV/AIDS. She also is vice president and member of the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, and a member of the board of directors of the ACLU’s Philadelphia chapter. In 2007, Goldfein was named “Policymaker of the Year” by the Penn Center for AIDS Research.
Course:Civil Litigation Field Clinic II
C. Mitchell Goldman
J.D., Temple University School of Law
M.B.A., University of Pennsylvania
A.B., Bowdoin College
Professor Goldman is a partner with Duane Morris, LLP where his practice focuses on the corporate aspects of healthcare delivery, with an emphasis on structuring corporate transactions between providers, advising clients on the impact of government regulation, creating strategies to improve reimbursement and developing startup healthcare related business opportunities. A former vice president of Managed Care Strategies, Inc. and a former legislative assistant to former Sen. Walter F. Mondale, he founded GLS Associates, Inc., providing management consulting to healthcare providers for 20 years.
Course: Health Care Finance
Sarah L. Grieb
J.D., George Washington University Law School
B.A., Northwestern University
Professor Grieb has been an assistant U.S. attorney in the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 1989, investigating and prosecuting violations of federal law, including public corruption, health care fraud, HUD fraud, environmental crimes, bank fraud and credit card fraud. She previously worked as an attorney with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
Course: Advanced Trial Advocacy: Criminal
Thomas M. Griffin
J.D., magna cum laude, Suffolk University Law School
M.A., John Jay College of Criminal Justice
B.A., Georgetown University
Professor Griffin, a partner at Surin & Griffin, PC, specializes in complex immigration matters including detention, criminal deportation, family immigration, business and employment visas, and asylum law. He is a well-known human rights investigator and advocate, and has appeared before Congress as an expert on Haiti. He has been selected as a "Rising Star" by Super Lawyers magazine.
Course: International Human Rights Advocacy
Matthew H. Haverstick
J.D., Fordham University Law School
B.A., Bucknell University
Professor Haverstick is a partner with Conrad O'Brien, PC where he specializes in white collar criminal defense and internal corporate investigations, complex commercial litigation and construction. He is an active member of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, serving on the White Collar Crime Committee and Public Corruption and Extortion Subcommittee.
Course: Advanced Torts
Kristin Hayes
B.A., Brown University
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
During Professor Hayes' tenure as Assistant U.S. Attorney with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, she was responsible for hundreds of grand jury investigations involving all federal law enforcement agencies from inception through prosecution, guilty plea or trial, sentencing, and appeal. These cases included fraud, corruption, tax, narcotics, and firearms. Professor Hayes received the Department of Justice John Marshall Award for United States v. Richard Ramos and the Executive Office of United States Attorneys’ Offices award for United States v. John and Anthony Gambone.
Course: White Collar Crime
Gregory J. Hessinger
J.D., St. John's University School of Law
B.A., Lebanon Valley College
A partner at Curley, Hessinger & Johnsrud, LLP, Professor Hessinger represents a variety of regional and national employers in collective bargaining, labor arbitrations, NLRB proceedings and employment-related litigation. His deep background in the media and entertainment sector includes positions as National Executive Director of the Screen Actors Guild and National Executive Director of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Course: Entertainment Law
J. Patrick Hickey
J.D., Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law
B.A., Boston College
Professor Hickey is a partner with Raffaele & Puppio, LLP where he heads the Litigation Department and handles general litigation, personal injury law, automobile liability, construction accidents, workers' compensation law and criminal defense. Previously, he was a supervising attorney with Jenkins, Wolf, Rubinate, Styliades & Hasson and an assistant district attorney in Berks County.
Course: Interviewing, Negotiation and Counseling
Robert L. Hickok
J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School
A.M., Harvard University
B.A., summa cum laude, Lehigh University
Professor Hickok is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department of Pepper Hamilton, LLP where he focuses his commercial-litigation practice on matters involving corporate governance, antitrust laws, federal securities laws and class action defense. His expertise includes applying economic analysis to the resolution of legal issues.
Course: Law and Economics
Kelley B. Hodge
J.D., University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law
B.A., University of Virginia
Professor Hodge is assistant chief of the Juvenile Court Unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office where she prosecutes specially assigned cases and instructs newly hired assistant district attorneys in trial strategy, case analysis, courtroom etiquette and procedure.
Course: Lawyering Practice Seminar
David Hoffman
J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law
B.A., University of Pittsburgh
Professor Hoffman is president and founder of Hoffman & Associates, PC, a national health-care consulting firm dedicated to patient safety through compliance. His previous experience includes prosecuting health care and fraud cases as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and serving as chief counsel to the Pennsylvania Department of Aging.
Course: Regulating Patient Safety
Peter J. Hoffman
J.D., cum laude, Temple University School of Law
M.A., State University of New York - Graduate School of Public Affairs
B.A., Washington and Jefferson College
Professor Hoffman is a member of the board of directors and chair of the Professional Liability Group at Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott, LLC. He handles complex cases such as antitrust, securities, class action, creditors' rights, commercial litigation, intellectual property, catastrophic injuries, ERISA and real estate litigation. A fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Professor Hoffman also served on the Pennsylvania Senate Select Committee on Medical Malpractice and Gov. Rendell's Task Force on Medical Malpractice.
Course: Law of Medical Malpractice
Stephanie A. Huffnagle
M.L.S., State University of New York at Buffalo
J.D., Albany Law School
B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo
Professor Huffnagle is a research and instructional services librarian at the Earle Mack School of Law Legal Research Center. Previously, she was an assistant reference librarian at Hilbert College in Buffalo, N.Y. Prior to becoming a librarian, Professor Huffnagle was an attorney in Buffalo, where she practiced in the areas of civil litigation and workers’ compensation.
Course: Business Law Legal Research
Margaret L. Hutchinson
J.D., University of Richmond School of Law
B.A., College of William and Mary
Professor Hutchinson is chief of the Civil Division of the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She focuses on health care fraud, defense procurement fraud and environmental violations. She has handled investigations involving home-health aide agency improprieties, pharmaceutical pricing issues, cost-reporting fraud and research fraud tied to National Institutes of Health grants.
Course: Health Care Fraud
William F. Johnson Jr.
LL.M., New York University School of Law
J.D., New York University School of Law
A.B., College of the Holy Cross
Professor Johnson is a former partner of the Riverdale, N.J. firm, Johnson, Murphy, Hubner, McKeon, Wubbenhorst, Bucco & Appelt, PC, where his practice focused on commercial and multi-family real estate development, commercial and residential mortgage reviews, corporate and commercial defense work, health and hospital law and personal injury defense litigation. Before coming to Drexel, Professor Johnson was an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law.
Course: Civil Litigation Remedies
Arnold C. Joseph
J.D., Temple University School of Law
B.A., Hamilton College
Professor Joseph began his career as a prosecutor in the New York County District Attorney's Office. He then joined Cozen O'Connor, where he became a senior member of the firm. His experience includes both transactional work on behalf of professional athletes and general civil and criminal litigation. He is the general manager of Sports & Entertainment Publications, LLC, which publishes The Ring magazine, among other properties.
Course: Interviewing, Negotiation and Counseling
Odia Kagan
LL.B., Tel Aviv University School of Law
LL.M., Temple University Beasley School of Law
Professor Kagan is an associate in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton, LLP where she focuses her practice on international, corporate and securities law and technology and IP transactions. Previously, she was a partner in the Tel Aviv, Israel, firm Shavit Bar-On Gal-On Tzin Nov Yagur and the founder of OKaganLaw, an independent law office. Kagan also served in the Israel Defense Forces as First Lieutenant in the Military Advocate General's Unit.
Course: Internet Law
Brian D. Kent
LL.M., Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law
J.D., Temple University James E. Beaslely School of Law
B.A., University of Delaware
Professor Kent is a partner at Laffey Bucci Kent, LLP where his practice focuses on construction accidents, medical malpractice and products liability. He received numerous accolades as a member of Temple University's National Trial Team. Professor Kent currently serves as chair of the American Ireland Fund - Young Leaders of Philadelphia and is on the board of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project.
Course: Introduction to Trial Advocacy
Thomas A. Kennedy
J.D., Washington University School of Law
B.A., St. Joseph's University
Professor Kennedy is an attorney with the Portfolio Legal Services division of Versa Capital Management, Inc. He is counselor to a private equity fund with more than $900 million of committed capital under management and counselor to portfolio company investments. He was previously a partner in the Corporate and Securities Group of Pepper Hamilton, LLP and general manager with West Pharmaceutical Services Inc.
Course: Private Equity and Venture Capital Law
Richard Kolb
J.D., Temple University School of Law
B.A., Dickinson College
Professor Kolb is a former partner at White and Williams, LLP, in the firm’s Litigation Department where he was a senior member of the Healthcare Law Group. For several years, he served a chair of that practice group. As an active trial lawyer for 34 years, he prepared hundreds of cases for trial and tried to verdict nearly 100 major cases, primarily representing physicians and healthcare institutions in medical malpractice litigation. He has extensive experience as an instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has participated as a faculty member in numerous CLE programs teaching trial advocacy skills. From 2005 through 2011, he was selected in a survey of his peers as a Pennsylvania “Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics magazine.
Course: Pretrial Advocacy
Cheryl A. Kreisher
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
M.S.W., University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work
B.A., summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Kreisher has been an assistant defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia since 2002, representing indigent people in all stages of criminal proceedings, including cases involving attempted murder, robbery and rape. Previously, she was an Equal Justice Fellow with the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women.
Clinic: Criminal Law; Criminal Litigation Field Clinic I and II
Nancy B.G. Lassen
J.D., Northeastern University School of Law
M.S., Harvard University
B.A., University of Michigan
Professor Lassen is an executive partner at Willig, Williams & Davidson, where she represents labor organizations and employees in state and federal administrative matters, state and federal court litigation, collective bargaining, contract enforcement proceedings, and internal union matters. Prior to joining the firm in 1984, she clerked for Chief Judge George C. Edwards on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Course: Labor Law
Justin T. Loughry
J.D., New York University School of Law
B.A., Williams College
Professor Loughry is an owner and partner with Loughry and Lindsay, LLC, where he handles state and federal trial and appellate litigation involving a broad range of criminal and civil matters. A former president of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, he has handled high-profile litigation involving racial profiling by state police in New Jersey and alleged excessive force at Bayside State Prison. He has served as an adjunct professor at Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
Course: Professional Responsibility
Dara Lovitz
J.D., Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law
B.A., magna cum laude, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Lovitz is a business development - account executive at the American Law Institute-American Bar Association. She is the author of "Muzzling a Movement," and has written and lectured extensively on animal law and eco-terror laws. Professor Lovitz also serves on the boards of Four Feet Forward and Peace Advocacy Network.
Course: Animal Law
Marilyn May
J.D., cum laude, Temple University School of Law
B.A., magna cum laude, Temple University
Professor May is an assistant attorney with the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where she specializes in civil and criminal health care fraud prosecution. Previously, as attorney-advisor for the Defense Logistics Agency, she litigated contract claims before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.
Course: Health Care Fraud and Abuse
Maureen McCartney
J.D., Vermont Law School
B.S., West Chester University
Professor McCartney is an assistant attorney with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Previously, she was an associate professor and director of Temple University Beasley School of Law's Trial Advocacy Programs. She has held multiple positions with the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, including assistant district attorney for the Special Investigations Unit and assistant chief of the Municipal Court Unit.
Course: Advanced Trial Advocacy: Criminal
Julie A. McGrain
J.D., University of Buffalo School of Law
B.A., State University of New York College at Oswego
Professor McGrain is an attorney research and writing specialist for the Federal Public Defender’s office in Camden, New Jersey. Professor McGrain has been an instructor for DeSales University and Immaculata University teaching nursing law and criminal law classes. She has also been a guest lecturer for various undergraduate criminal justice classes at Temple University, American University and Rutgers University. Course: Foundations of Legal Analysis
Bruce Merenstein
J.D., summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School
M.S., University of Massachusetts
B.A., Brandeis University
Professor Merenstein is a partner with Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP, where his practice focuses on appellate litigation in state and federal courts. He has handled appeals in many of the federal courts of appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as numerous state appellate courts, including those in California, Florida, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Maine and Pennsylvania.
Course: Appellate Advocacy
Deborah M. Minkoff
J.D., Villanova University School of Law
B.A., Franklin and Marshall College
Professor Minkoff is a member with Cozen O'Connor, where she represents clients in complex insurance litigation, providing strategic legal advice, developing legal arguments in high-exposure cases and serves as a subject matter expert for the Insurance Litigation Department.
Course: Interviewing, Negotiation and Counseling
Steven A. Morley
J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School
B.A., University of of Wisconsin
Professor Morley is an Immigration Judge with the Philadelphia Immigration Court. Previously, he maintained a private practice focused on immigration law and criminal law. He has argued before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, and chaired the Criminal Justice Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Villanova Law School and Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
Course: Immigration Litigation; Refugee and Asylum Law
Adrienne R. Moss
J.D., with honors, University of Maryland School of Law
B.A., summa cum laude, University of Maryland
Professor Moss is independent senior legal counsel for DreamWorks Animation, LLC, where she is involved with negotiating and drafting complex agreements for studio projects in development and production. Previously, she was head of business and legal affairs for Illumination Entertainment and was an associate in the Entertainment and Technology Transactions Group at Morrison & Foerster, LLP in California.
Course: Transactional Lawyering
Shawn Nolan
J.D., cum laude, Temple University School of Law
B.A., La Salle University
Professor Nolan is a supervisory assistant federal defender with the Capital Habeas Corpus Unit of the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has represented Guantanamo Bay detainees in habeas corpus proceedings in federal court, and handles capital cases on post conviction in state and federal courts. Professor Nolan has taught as an adjunct professor with the Great Lakes College Association.
Course: Death Penalty
Robert W. O'Donnell
J.D., Temple University School of Law
B.A., Temple University
Professor O'Donnell is a former speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, where he also served as majority whip and majority leader, sponsoring legislative reforms that strengthened the financial soundness of public pensions in the state and created a vehicle for the financial recovery of the City of Philadelphia. In 1995, he formed O'Donnell Associates, a lobbying and governmental relations firm representing corporate, government and nonprofit clients.
Course: State and Local Government Law
Tiffany L. Palmer
J.D., Rutgers School of Law - Camden
M.S., Rutgers University
B.S., Northern Arizona University
Professor Palmer is a partner at Jerner & Palmer, P.C. in Philadelphia specializing in family law and estate planning issues with a particular focus on representing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) clients. As the former legal director for Equality Advocates Pennsylvania, she coordinated statewide LGBT-rights litigation strategy for the organization. She is the author of "The Winding Road to the Two Dad Family: Issues Arising in Interstate Surrogacy for Gay Couples" which appeared in the Spring 2011 issued of the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Course: Sexual Orientation and the Law
David N. Pardys
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center
J.D., Rutgers School of Law - Camden
B.A., Rutgers University
Professor Pardys is a partner with Reed Smith, LLP where he counsels publicly held and private companies on executive compensation, equity compensation programs, qualified pension and profit-sharing plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, health and welfare plans, benefit issues in corporate transactions and fiduciary aspects of ERISA. A former attorney in the Office of the Associate Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, he is an adjunct professor at the Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law.
Course: Executive Compensation Law; Federal Income Tax
John J. Pease
J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law
B.S., The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Professor Pease is an assistant U.S. attorney and chief of the Government and Health Care Fraud Section of the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has prosecuted a variety of high-profile cases, including the fraud conviction of the president of the Independence Seaport Museum and the federal case against Pennsylvania State Sen. Vincent Fumo. He has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
Course: Introduction to Trial Advocacy - Practice
Sarah E. Ricks
J.D., Yale Law School
B.A., summa cum laude, Barnard College
Professor Ricks is a clinical professor of law and co-director of the Pro Bono Research Project at Rutgers School of Law - Camden. She is a commissioner on the Philadelphia Commission for Human Relations, which enforces the city's anti-discrimination laws in employment, public accommodations, housing, and delivery of city services. Professor Ricks also serves on the board of the Women's Law Project.
Course: Current Issues in Constitutional Litigation
The Honorable Sue L. Robinson
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
B.A., University of Delaware
Judge Robinson was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 and served as chief justice from 2000 to 2007. Previously, she was a U.S. magistrate with the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware.
Course: Pretrial Advocacy
Steven J. Rocci, Distinguished Practice Professor of Intellectual Property
J.D., Temple University School of Law
B.S., Drexel University, Electrical Engineering
Professor Rocci is managing partner at Woodcock Washburn, LLP where he focuses on patent litigation, counseling and procurement, with particular emphasis on electronics, computer science, telecommunications and Internet technologies. He served as an adjunct professor of patent law at Temple University School of Law from 1989 until 2003. He has been named in Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America and the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Guide.
Courses: Patent Litigation and Strategy
Rayleen V. Romeo
J.D., cum laude, Western New England College School of Law
B.A., Duke University
Professor Romeo has worked for the Superior Court of Pennsylvania for over a decade. As judicial clerk for The Hon. Richard B. Klein, she conducts legal research and writing on draft opinions and memoranda, including dissenting, concurring and en banc decisions. Previously, she clerked for The Hon. Vincent A. Cirillo.
Course: Lawyering Practice Seminar
Steven Rosard
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
B.A., State University of New York at Binghamtom
Currently the principal and owner of Rosard Law Firm LLC, Professor Rosard provides strategic legal advice and representation to emerging businesses for corporate, commercial securities and general business transactions. He is the former vice president and senior corporate counsel to Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., and previously practiced with Braemer, Abelson & Hitchner in Philadelphia and with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo in Boston.
Clinic: Entrepreneurial Law Clinic
Benjamin V. Sanchez
J.D., magna cum laude, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law
B.S., summa cum laude, Villanova University
Professor Sanchez, an associate at Ballard Sparhr, LLP, is a member of the firm's Real Estate Department and a member of the Eminent Domain, Real Estate Tax, REITs, and Zoning and Land Use Groups. Before joining the firm, he worked as a certified public accountant in the audit division of a major accounting firm.
Course: Land Use Law
Stefanie Fleischer Seldin
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., magna cum laude, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Seldin is managing attorney at Philadelphia VIP, a Philadelphia Bar Association-sponsored agency that provides free legal services to the poor by obtaining volunteer counsel for clients. Previously, she was policy analyst at the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance and a staff attorney at the Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia.
Course: Lawyering Practice Seminar
Lawrence J. Schempp
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., Temple University
Professor Schempp is the director of Professional Development and Training at Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, a litigation defense firm. He is responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive legal and professional skills training programs for entry- and mid-level associates, and courses for all attorneys at the firm on evolving legal issues affecting the litigation practice. Before joining the firm, Professor Schempp was a member of the full-time faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he taught and supervised in the Civil Practice Clinic. Prior to teaching, Professor Schempp had ten years of experience in complex commercial litigation practice in both a large firm and a litigation boutique in Philadelphia.
Course: Interviewing, Negotiation and Counseling
Mark C. Schultz
J.D., Villanova University School of Law
B.A., Clark University
Professor Schultz is the founder of Schultz Law, LLC, a national practice focusing on product liability and subrogation law. A former assistant district attorney in Montgomery County, he currently chairs the Pennsylvania Bar Association Multijurisdictional Practice Commission. Previously, he served on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Disciplinary Board and chaired the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board.
Course: Litigation Drafting
Michael D. Silverman
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
A.B., Vassar College
Professor Silverman is the executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund. He has extensive experience in litigation, previously as senior staff attorney for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and as pro bono cooperating attorney with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. He is former counsel with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld.
Course: Sexual Orientation and Law
Judy Goldstein Smith
J.D., Northwestern University School of Law
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Smith has been an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania specializing in complex health care, tax, securities, consumer and financial frauds, corruption, terrorism, narcotics and other federal crimes since 1980. She has previously served as an adjunct professor at Villanova University School of Law and Rutgers University School of Law-Camden teaching advanced criminal procedure and criminal litigation courses. She has received numerous Department of Justice awards including the Director's award and awards for her public service.
Course: Health Care Fraud & Abuse
Debra G. Speyer
J.D., Hofstra University
M.B.A., Hofstra University
B.B.A., Hofstra University
Professor Speyer focuses her private practice on investment fraud, elder fraud, elder law, probate, guardianships, wills, trusts and estates. Previously, she was an attorney with the enforcement division of the National Association of Securities Dealers and an attorney and vice president for Thomson McKinnon Securities Inc. Professor Speyer is chair of the Elder Law Committee and a member of the Securities Regulations Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
Course: Starting and Managing a Law Practice
Lindsay Steussy
J.D., Hamline University School of Law
M.L.S., Indiana University – Bloomington
M.A., Indiana University – Bloomington
B.A., St. Olaf College
Professor Steussy is a research and instructional services librarian at the Earle Mack School of Law Legal Research Center. Previously, she was a library fellow at Hamline University School of Law. Prior to law school, she worked in technical services at the University of Colorado Libraries in Boulder.
Course: Health Law Legal Research
Steven Thorpe
J.D., Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
M.L.S., Florida State University
B.S., University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Professor Thorpe is the head of access services and a research and instructional services librarian at the Earle Mack School of Law Legal Research Center. Previously, he was head of public services at the University of Tennessee Joel A. Katz Law Library and head of technical services at the Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law Law Library. Professor Thorpe also served as staff attorney and Paul F. Reutersham Fellow at the National Veterans Legal Service Project.
Course: Foreign and International Legal Research
Robert Tomilson
J.D., Washington University School of Law
M.A., University of Illinois
B.A., University of New Hampshire
Professor Tomilson is a member of Cozen O'Connor's Global Insurance Group, where he advises both insurers and reinsurers in their disputes as well as transactions involving life, health, disability, personal accident, property, casualty, surety and annuity products and policies. He regularly represents clients in domestic and international arbitration subject to UNCITRAL, ICC, AAA and ARIAS rules and he has been a testifying expert in such proceedings. Professor Tomilson is a published author and was a DAAD-Fulbright Scholar in Regensburg, Germany. Prior to returning to private practice, he was senior counsel at CIGNA Corporation, where he managed all legal aspects of the company's reinsurance operations.
Course: Insurance Law
Michael G. Trachtman
J.D., with honors, Villanova University School of Law
B.A., with honors, Dickinson College
Professor Trachtman, an attorney with Powell Trachtman Logan Carrle & Lombardo, PC, specializes in business litigation, employment law, and counseling business clients on the avoidance of claims and liabilities. He also serves as general counsel to the MidAtlantic Employers' Association and has been appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County to serve as a discovery master in civil litigation.
Course: Litigation Drafting
Rashida T. West
J.D., Temple University School of Law
B.A., Yale University
Professor West is the associate director for Government and Public Interest Law at the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University. Previously, she was staff attorney at the Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia. Professor West also was an Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellow.
Course: Children and the State
Charlotte Whitmore
J.D., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School
M.A., University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
B.A., Dartmouth College
Professor Whitmore is a staff attorney for the Pennsylvania Innocence Project as part of a two-year Equal Justice Works fellowship. Previously, Ms. Whitmore was a paralegal at the Federal Defenders in the Southern District of New York. She clerked for The Hon. Anita B. Brody in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and The Hon. Marjorie O. Rendell on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Course: Pennsylvania Innocence Project Practicum
Storm Wilkins
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
B.A., cum laude, American University
Professor Wilkins is the founder of Precedent Corporate Training, LLC, a New Jersey-based company that offers courses on topics of interest to the property casualty insurance industry. Previously, she was an attorney and claims specialist with ACE USA Insurance Company's Long Term Exposure Claims Unit and served as assistant general counsel to the Corporate Legal Department of AAA Mid-Atlantic Insurance Group.
Course: Introduction to Trial Advocacy - Practice
Neil Witkes
J.D., magna cum laude, Boston University School of Law
B.A., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Witkes is a partner with Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP. He has a wide range of civil and administrative environmental litigation experience, including class actions, toxic tort claims, insurance coverage suits, defense of agency enforcement actions, citizen suits, challenges to agency action, contract claims, and cost recovery actions. He has served as lead counsel in the defense of numerous toxic tort claims and in the prosecution of claims under environmental insurance policies to recover remediation costs.
Course: Toxic Torts
Rachel P. Zuraw
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
M.B.E., University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics
A.B., Princeton University
Professor Zuraw is an associate and member of the Litigation Department at O'Melveny & Meyers, LLP. Previously, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and a teacher with the school's Prisoners Legal Education Project. She was formerly the executive editor of the Journal of Constitutional Law.
Course: Bioethics
