Susan K. Sloane Co-Director of LSSC for Legal Research and Writing Vassar College, A.B Boston University School of Law, J.D.

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1 Susan K. Sloane Co-Director of LSSC for Legal Research and Writing Vassar College, A.B Boston University School of Law, J.D Susan Sloane is Co-Director for Writing and Research of the Legal Skills in Social Context Program. She joined the Northeastern adjunct faculty in , teaching Legal Research and Writing. She previously taught a similar course at Boston University School of Law for four years. Professor Sloane served as Interim Co-Director of the LSSC program for one year and became the permanent Co-Director in She began her legal career at Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston and then served in the office of the Massachusetts Attorney General, first as an assistant attorney general in the Consumer Protection Division and then as chief of the Division of Public Charities. She opened her own practice in 1985 specializing in mediation and collaborative law, primarily in the field of family law. She has also coached the Boston University undergraduate mock trial and mock mediation teams for many years. Student contact information: Work: (direct); s.sloane@neu.edu Thomas Bean Washington University, A.B., cum laude, 1977 Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1981 University of Michigan Law School, cum laude, 1986 Mr. Bean is a practicing attorney in the Boston office of Verrill Dana, LLP, a firm based in Portland, Maine. He represents companies and individuals in contract disputes, companies experiencing financial distress or dealing with companies in financial distress, and commercial lenders. Prior to joining Verrill Dana, he practiced in the Boston office of an international law firm, and served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts where he argued thirteen cases before the Supreme Judicial Court and four before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact information: Thomas.bean20@gmail.com Christopher D. Browne Stonehill College, B.A Northeastern University School of Law, J.D A graduate of Northeastern ('07), Chris Browne took advantage of co-ops with the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and the General Counsel's Office of EMC Corporation to hone the writing skills he developed in Northeastern's Legal Writing While a student at Northeastern, Chris was a founding member of the Northeastern University Law Journal and represented the school in the National Appellate Advocacy Competition. In addition, Chris had the unusual opportunity to serve as a law clerk to Justice Janis M. Berry of the Massachusetts Appeals Court in his third year of law school and during the summer following his graduation. Since the end of his clerkship at the Appeals Court, Chris has been a law clerk with the Massachusetts Superior Court, focusing his work on the court's Business Litigation Session. Chris also works as a technical editor for the Massachusetts Law Review. He teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact information: christopherd.browne@gmail.com

2 Margaret Hahn-Dupont University of Pennsylvania, B.A Georgetown University Law Center, J.D Ms. Hahn-Dupont worked as an associate in the litigation department at Shearman & Sterling in New York upon her graduation from law school. In 1994 and 1995, she served as the law clerk to United States District Court Judge Denny Chin in the Southern District of New York. Following her clerkship, she taught at Fordham University School of Law in both the JD and LL.M. programs, in the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law, and at Brooklyn Law School. Ms. Hahn-DuPont teaches Legal Writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact information: Irina Gott University of Connecticut, B.A. cum laude 1996 Suffolk University Law School, J.D. magna cum laude 2001 Ms. Gott has practiced general litigation for almost ten years. In 2001, she graduated from Suffolk University Law School, magna cum laude, where she was the associate managing editor of the Suffolk University Law Review and authored a note titled Prior Restraint on Speech and Workplace Discrimination: The Clashing of Two Fundamental Rights. Following graduation, Ms. Gott worked in the litigation department of the former Boston law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP, and thereafter continued her practice at a small Boston litigation firm, where she handled a wide variety of civil, commercial, family law and probate disputes. Over the course of her practice, Ms. Gott also devoted a significant amount of time to pro bono work, successfully representing asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo before the Department of Immigration. In 2007, she began her teaching career at Suffolk University, where she taught Freshman Composition and Literature. Presently, Ms. Gott is also an adjunct Legal Research & Writing instructor at New England School of Law. She teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact information: ivgott@gmail.com Noah Kaufman Tufts University, B.A Northeastern University School of Law, J.D Noah works as an associate at the law firm of Foley Hoag LLP, where he advises for-profit and not-for-profit clients on a range of formation, financing and employment matters. Noah teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact information: nkaufman@foleyhoag.com

3 Peter M. Kelley Boston College, A.B Suffolk University Law School, J.D Boston University Graduate School of Management, M.B.A Mr. Kelley currently serves as Board Counsel and occasional Administrative Hearings Counsel with the Massachusetts Division of Professional Licensure. He is also a Special Assistant Attorney General for the Division with respect to affirmative civil litigation. Prior to that, Mr. Kelley worked for more than a decade with the City of Boston, as both the Legal Advisor to the Boston Public School Department and as an Assistant Corporation Counsel with the Law Department. After graduating cum laude from Suffolk University Law School, Mr. Kelley served first as a law clerk and then as deputy chief law clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court and then as an associate with Glovsky,Tarlow & Milberg, in Boston, where his practice was concentrated in complex civil litigation. Mr. Kelley taught education law at the University of Massachusetts, Boston Graduate School of Education for eight years and presently for the Principal Residency Network at Northeastern University s Center for Collaborative Education. He teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact information: kelleypeter@msn.com Wynter Lavier Roger Williams University, B.A Northeastern University School of Law, J.D Ms. Lavier is a litigation associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., whose practice encompasses a range of litigation matters including complex civil litigation, government litigation, and white collar criminal defense. Ms. Lavier also maintains an active pro bono practice in the area of asylum law. She has represented numerous clients seeking political asylum before the Boston Immigration Court, and her recent clients include political asylees from Columbia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Haiti. Ms. Lavier is also a member of the board of directors of the International Institute of New England, a nonprofit organization focused on providing outreach and assistance to immigrants, refugees, and other vulnerable populations. She teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact information: wlavier@gmail.com James D. Livingstone University of Connecticut, B.A. George Washington University Law School, J.D. Jay Livingstone, a graduate of George Washington University Law School, is in private practice as a litigator and trial attorney. He previously worked as an Assistant District Attorney for the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office and supervised the prosecutors in Waltham District Court. He also worked as an associate at Nystrom, Beckman & Paris in the Back Bay and at Clearly, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington, DC, and he was Civil Division Chief and Assistant Attorney General of the Northern Mariana Islands Attorney General's Office. He is active in community and political events in Boston. He serves as the Second Vice Chair of the Boston Ward 5 Democratic Committee and Secretary of the Zoning and Licensing Committee of the Beacon Hill Civic Association. He teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact information: j_livingstone@msn.com

4 Carol Mallory Bowdoin College, B.A Northeastern University School of Law, J.D Ms. Mallory is an attorney in private practice. Her practice consists primarily of performing legal research and writing projects under contract to other attorneys. Prior to starting her own practice Ms. Mallory worked for six years as a staff attorney in the Employment Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services. She began her career as a law clerk for Justice Gerald Gillerman of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and later worked as a litigation associate at the firm of Stern, Shapiro, Weissberg & Garin. She has taught the Poverty Law Clinic and legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context She is currently assisting the Director of Legal Research and Writing with special projects. Student contact information: roloopa@yahoo.com Anne Marie Ofori-Acquaah University of Ghana, Legon, LL.B Yale Law School, LL.M New York University, LL.M University of Toronto Faculty of Law, S.J.D Anne-Marie Ofori-Acquaah is the Associate Labor Counsel for the Massachusetts Trial Court. She represents the Trial Court at arbitration hearings, in employment matters before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Division of Labor Relations, the Division of Unemployment Assistance and in the trial courts. Prior to joining the Trial Court, she was the Special Assistant General Counsel for the Department of Mental Health, where she was responsible for representing the Department at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, and also handled a variety of functions such as reviewing client appeals and drafting regulations. She has a bachelor of laws degree from the University of Ghana, a masters of law degree from Yale Law School and New York University and a doctoral degree from the University of Toronto. She teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact information: pepraa@hotmail.com Dyane O Leary Villanova University, B.A. Suffolk University Law School, J.D. Dyane O Leary is a senior associate in the Litigation/Controversy Department at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP in Boston. Her practice focuses primarily on intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. She re-joined WilmerHale in 2009 after completing a clerkship with the Honorable William E. Smith in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Professor O'Leary graduated summa cum laude from Villanova University and Suffolk University Law School and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, and Women's Bar Association. She is also an adjunct instructor of legal research and writing at New England Law Boston and a member of the Legal Writing Institute. She teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact Information: dl.oleary@neu.edu

5 Lisa M. Palin Brown University, A.B., 1999 Boston College Law School, J.D., 2004 Boston College Lynch School of Education, M.Ed, 2004 Lisa Palin began her legal career representing teenage girls entangled in the Massachusetts juvenile justice system through Boston College Law School s Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project. After graduating from a dual degree program in law and education at Boston College in 2004, she became an associate in the litigation department of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., where she specialized in insurance coverage litigation, class actions, and records management. Lisa also spent six months as a Special Assistant District Attorney for the Middlesex County District Attorney s Office, prosecuting offenses such as drunk driving, larceny, and assault and battery. During her time at Mintz Levin, Lisa had an active pro bono practice, authoring amicus briefs for the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of the National Network to End Domestic Violence and representing victims of domestic violence in obtaining restraining orders against their assailants. In addition to her legal work, Lisa has tutored eighth graders in persuasive writing through Citizen Schools Eighth Grade Academy, served on the board of directors of non-profit organizations and was a trustee of an independent day school in Rhode Island. Lisa has now come full circle and is writing fiction for teens (and adults who are young at heart). She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children at Simmons College. Lisa teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact information: lisa.palin@gmail.com Sabita Singh Pennsylvania State University, B.A Boston University School of Law, J.D Sabita Singh is Associate Justice of the District Court Department of the Trial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Singh served as a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston where she specialized in human trafficking cases. She also practiced civil litigation with Bingham McCutchen LLP. Prior to that, Judge Singh served as a state prosecutor with the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office and as a law clerk to the Justices of the Superior Court. She is a graduate of Boston University School of Law and Pennsylvania State University. She is also past president and founding member of the South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston and the North American South Asian Bar Association. She teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context Student contact information: judgesabita@gmail.com

6 Vashti Van Wyke Vashti D. Van Wyke Wesleyan University, BA 1997 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts Univ., MA 2001 University of Pennsylvania, JD 2006 Ms. Van Wyke clerked for Judge Norman H. Stahl, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, from 2006 to After clerking, she joined a small litigation firm in Boston. She teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) Program. Student Contact Information: vvanwyke@yahoo.com Rose Zoltek-Jick University of Toronto, BA 1977 Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB 1981 Harvard University, LLM 1986 Ms. Zoltek-Jick has taught at the School of Law for more than 25 years, specializing in criminal law and procedure, evidence, civil procedure, law and psychiatry and professional responsibility. She has also taught at Boston University School of Law and at Harvard Law School. Her academic writing has focused on statutes of limitation, cold cases, and civil lawsuits on cases of sexual abuse. In the coming year, in addition to Professional Responsibility and Pathways to Practice, she will be teaching in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program while working on curriculum reform issues for our first year program with a view to rolling out an experimental section in Student contact information: r.zoltek-jick@neu.edu