B.A. summa cum laude 1999 Louisiana State University; J.D. summa cum laude 2002 Tulane Law School
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Member of the Mercer Law Faculty since 2006.
Involvement:
Co-Chair of the Legal Writing Institute Professional Development Committee (2008-2010)
Executive Committee of AALS New Law Professors Section (2007, 2008 & 2009)
Chair of the 2009 Poster Committee for AALS Legal Writing, Legal Research, and Legal Reasoning Section.
Member of 2008 Poster Committee for AALS Legal Writing, Legal Research, and Legal Reasoning Section.
Legal Writing Institute
Association of Legal Writing Directors
Society of American Law Teachers
American Bar Association
New York State Bar (Retired)
Publications:
Law Review Articles
Beyond the Personal Representative: Successions without Administration, 50 S. Tex. L. Rev. 449 (April 2009).
Teaching Multiple Skills in Drafting and Simulation Classes, 10 Transactions: Tenn. J. of Bus. Law. 222 (2009) (transcript of panel presentation from the Teaching and Drafting Skills Conference).
Should Cains Children Inherit Abels Property?: Wading into the Extended Slayer Rule Quagmire, 76 UMKC L. Rev. 101 (Fall 2007).
The Sleeper Has Awakened: The Rule Against Accumulations and Perpetual Trusts, 76 Tul. L. Rev. 189 (2001).
Essays
Reprints, AALS New Law Professors Section Newsletter (Winter 2008).
On Writing: Using the Elements of Fiction to Tell the Clients Story, 4 No. 3 The Complete Lawyer (May/June 2008).
Professor, Do You Have Time For A Really, Really Quick Question?, AALS New Law Professors Section Newsletter (Nov. 2007).
The Potential of Podcasts, 22 No. 1 The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 11 (Fall 2007).
Revising Revision in the Classroom,, 15 No. 2 Persp. 130 (Winter 2007).
Armed With More Than a Red Pen: A Novice Graders Journey to Success with Rubrics, 14 No. 1 Persp. 28 (Fall 2005).
Regular Column in the Georgia Bar Journal
Effective Transitions, 15 No. 2 Ga. B.J. 64 (Oct. 2009) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Summer Beach Reading, 15 No. 1 Ga. B.J. 74 (Aug. 2009) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Pondering Passive Voice, 14 No. 7 Ga. B.J. 70 (June 2009) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Prewriting and the Two Pile Technique, 14 No. 6 Ga. B.J. 68 (Apr. 2009) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Improve Your Prose Through Poetic Devices, 14 No. 5 Ga. B.J. 58 (Feb. 2009) (co-authored with David Hricik).
That Other Citation Manual, 14 No. 4 Ga. B.J. 70 (Dec. 2008) (co-authored with David Hricik).
The Road to Heaven Is Paved with Good Adverbs, 14 No. 2. Ga. B.J. 64 (Oct. 2008) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Writing Matters: Good, Bad, and Ugly Legalese, 14 No. 1 Ga. B.J. 86 (Aug. 2008) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Writing Matters: Avoiding Doe Snot While on the Trail of Statues, 13 No. 7 Ga. B.J. 80 (June 2008) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Writing Matters: Common Comma Conondrums Part II, 13 No. 6 Ga. B.J. 82 (Apr. 2008) (co-authored with David Hricik),
Writing Matters: Common Comma Conondrums Part I, 13 No. 5 Ga. B.J. 64 (Feb. 2008) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Writing Matters: Writing Myth Busters, 13 No. 4 Ga. B.J. 84 (Dec. 2007) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Writing Matters: Refresher on Signals, 13 No. 2 Ga. B.J. 56 (Oct. 2007) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Writing Matters: Using Citations Effectively, 13 No. 1 Ga. B.J. 84 (Aug. 2007) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Writing Matters: Reducing Citation Clutter, 12 No. 7 Ga. B.J. 60 (June 2007) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Writing Matters: Less is More, 12 No. 6 Ga. B.J. 68 (Apr. 2007) (co-authored with David Hricik).
Honors:
Georiga Association for Women Lawyers 2009 Mercer Professor of the Year
Order of the Coif
Tulane Law Review, Managing Editor
George Dewey Nelson Memorial Award in recognition of highest cumulative G.P.A. of common law students in the graduating class of 2002
Teaches:
Legal Writing I
Legal Writing II
Advanced Writing Group
Introduction to Counseling
Trusts and Estates Drafting
Law of Wills and Intestate Succession
Presentations:
Speaker: Group Writing, Southeast Legal Writing Conference, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida, September 12, 2009.
Speaker: In the Name of God, Amen: An Examination of Language in Last Wills and Testaments, New Scholars Panel, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida, August 7, 2009.
Speaker: Rhetorical Stepping Stones, Biennial Conference of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, Kansas City, Missouri, July 18, 2009 (with Sue Painter-Thorne and Linda Berger).
Speaker: Integrating Writing into Casebook Couses without Significantly Increasing Grading, 2009 Summer Conference of the Institute of Law Teaching and Learning, Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, Washington, June 23, 2009.
Speaker: Easy Extras: Strategies to Maximize Unexpected, Unplanned Minutes of Class Time, Ninth Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, Sandra Day OConnor College of Law, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, March 14, 2009.
Moderator: New Scholars Workshop (Panel #13), Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida, July 30, 2008.
Speaker: Beyond Chalk and Talk: Active Learning Activities for the Classroom, Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianaplis, July 15, 2008.
Panelist: Teaching Multiple Skills in Drafting and Simulation Courses, Inagural Conference for the Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills: The Bascis and Beyond, Emory Law Center for Transactional Law and Practice, Atlanta, Georgia, May 31, 2008 (addressing use of interviewing and counseling).
Speaker: Four Active Learning Strategies to Address the Statement of Facts, Georgia Legal Writing Consortium, Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, December 5, 2007.
Speaker: M & Ms, Highlighting, and Freewriting, Oh My!: Active Learning Techniques to Teach the Statement of Facts, Southeast Legal Writing Conference, Nova Southeastern Law School, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, September 8, 2007.
Speaker: Just the Facts, Ma’m: Using the Presentation of Facts to Enhance Students’ Analysis , Biennial Conference of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, University of Denver, Sturm, College of Law, Denver, Colorado, June 15, 2007.
Speaker: Revision in the Classroom: An Alternative to Peer Review , Seventh Annual Rocky Mountain Conference, The William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 10, 2007.
Panelist: What our Students Need to Know , Georgia Legal Writing Consortium of Legal Writing and Legal Skills Professors, John Marshall School of Law Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, December 7, 2006.
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