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Alice Briggs | Olivia Farrar | Jill McCullough | Mike Santana | Hollee S. Temple | Grace J. Wigal Alice Briggs earned her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and graduated magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law. After graduation, Professor Briggs joined a litigation firm in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she practiced in the civil litigation division and wrote numerous appellate briefs. She joined the law faculty at Pierce Law Center in 2000, and has been teaching in their legal skills program for seven years. “Legal writing and analysis intrigues me because it is a fascinating and infinitely creative task. It requires one to engage one's intellect, imagination and verbal skills to explain complex problems,” she said. “Clear writing requires clear thinking. Being able to write clearly and succinctly is an invaluable tool for all lawyers. LawBoost’s curriculum addresses the components of legal analysis and writing in an orderly fashion, making them accessible and comprehensible.”
Starting in 2006, Prof. Olivia Farrar’s work has been devoted to mediation and arbitration, primarily business, employment, construction, contract, and family matters. Alongside her mediation and arbitration practice, she teaches at American University and George Washington law schools. From 2003 to 2006, Prof. Farrar worked as an attorney for Hogan & Hartson on a wide variety of matters, including corporate, litigation, international trade and intellectual property. Prior to working for Hogan & Hartson, she interned with a trial judge and an appellate judge, and helped draft an international treaty on the enforcement of judgments. Before becoming an attorney, Prof. Farrar worked at the US Copyright Office as an examiner, and taught in the French and English Departments at Princeton University. She received her JD from Georgetown University Law Center, and both her PhD and BA in Romance Languages from Princeton University. LawBoost will speed up your successes in law school because this is exactly what your 1L professors will be trying so hard to teach you. Jill McCullough graduated magna cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1995. While in law school, she served as a Teaching Assistant in the school’s Legal Skills Program and as an Associate Editor of its Law Review. After graduating, she clerked for the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. She then went on to practice law privately for eight years before going into public practice as an Assistant Attorney General with the Maryland Office of the Attorney General. Recently, Jill returned to teaching at her alma mater, accepting an adjunct position as a writing professor for the spring 2008 semester. Jill enjoys teaching legal writing and basic legal skills to entering and first year law students. “Lawyers are, first and foremost, effective communicators. The written word is one of the most basic tools of effective communication. Learning the fundamentals of legal writing early will not only help students succeed in law school but will also lay a foundation for learning other related skills such as legal analysis and oral advocacy. ” Working with law students has been the primary focus of my legal career, and I really love doing it. I am the founder of Law Boost, and its administrator. At Law Boost, Fridays are the best. This is when students finishing the course realize just how much they learned in one week; and their law school doubts are replaced by confidence and competence. This has been, and continues to be, the greatest thrill and satisfaction of my professional career. Prior to Law Boost, I was a legal writing professor at Vermont Law School and the University of Montana School of Law. I have clerked for the Washington Supreme Court, and practiced law in New York, which included supervising law students in a Family Court domestic violence law clinic. I enjoy learning new ways to have fun, studying investing, and sports (7 on the line!). Congratulations on being accepted to law school, and we look forward to working with you! Hollee Schwartz Temple directs the legal writing program at West Virginia University College of Law. Holding both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Northwestern University’s journalism school and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law, Prof. Temple writes a bi-monthly national column on work-life balance issues for the ABA Journal, read by half of the country’s one million lawyers. She is currently at work on a nonfiction book that will chronicle how the mothers of her generation are redefining success and feminism by refusing to settle for lives they don’t want. An active scholar, speaker, and blogger (www.beckyandhollee.com/blog), Prof. Temple has been published in newspapers (including the Miami Herald, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and Michigan City News-Dispatch), national law reviews and legal writing publications. At the Legal Writing Institute’s 2008 biennial conference, she shared the spotlight with Professors Mary Beth Beazley and Sheila Simon, giving the plenary address on effectively using humor in the classroom. She also has spoken to the Association of Legal Writing Directors and lectures on generational issues and professionalism in legal writing for national law firms. “Working with LawBoost students has been a highlight of my teaching career,” she said. “In one short week, I see our students transform from nervous, worried pre-law students to confident 1Ls who are ready to succeed from the very first class. That’s tremendously satisfying to me.” Grace J. Wigal, Esq., is Director of Academic Excellence at the West Virginia University College of Law. Professor Wigal began her law career as a litigator with the law firm of Steptoe and Johnson, in Clarksburg, West Virginia. She has been teaching writing and appellate advocacy at the College of Law for seventeen years, and has published several articles and book chapters that relate to litigation and medical malpractice issues. She currently serves as an officer in the Association of Legal Writing Directors, a professional organization devoted to supporting legal writing teachers in leadership roles in law schools throughout the country. "I enjoy teaching for LawBoost because the materials teach students not only how to read a case, but also how to use the case as a lawyer would use it -- to predict an outcome for a client. Practice with case reading and application is key to good preparation for law school." |
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