Elizabeth Abrams

Professor Abrams has over a decade of experience as a federal trial attorney, investigating and prosecuting environmental crimes, health care fraud, fraud on the government, and other white collar offenses, with additional experience in violent crimes.

Victor Abreu

​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.​

Aren Adjoian

Aren Adjoian is a Supervisory Assistant Federal Defender in the capital habeas unit of the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where he represents death-sentenced clients in post-conviction proceedings. He previously worked as a fellowship attorney for the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender in Atlanta, where he represented capitally charged clients at trial and on direct appeal.

David Albert

The Honorable Daniel J. Anders

Judge Anders has served as a judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County since 2007. He is the Administrative Judge of the Trial Division, where he leads a team of 60 civil and criminal judges to dispose of all civil and criminal cases filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia. Judge Anders routinely lectures to judges, lawyers and law students on Pennsylvania civil law and the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence. He is the General Editor for Ohlbaum on the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence as well as five legal practice guides published by LexisNexis: PA Civil Pre-Trial Practice, PA Civil Trial Practice, PA Civil Discovery, PA Criminal Pretrial Practice and PA Criminal Trial Practice.

Brandee Blocker Anderson

Brandee Blocker Anderson is a lawyer, educator, and policy advisor with over 15 years of experience advocating for DEIA, racial equity, and social justice. As the CEO and founder of The Antiracism Academy, she leads a team in creating antiracist training and resources for notable clients, including Salesforce, the State University of New York, and the American Dental Association. Prior to founding her company, Brandee practiced real estate and corporate law at Morgan Lewis, Dechert, and Comcast. Her experience also includes serving as a Teach for America corps member and holding political appointments with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the City of Philadelphia, advising on DEIA and racial equity for the Biden-Harris and Kenney Administrations.

Kenneth G. Andres, Jr.

Kenneth G. Andres is an accomplished trial lawyer. He has been named a “Top 100 New Jersey Super Lawyer” in both New Jersey Monthly in and South Jersey Magazine, and was also named as “the Top Civil Trial Lawyer” by South Jersey Magazine and “Top Certified Civil Trial Attorney” by SJ Magazine. He has previously taught as an adjunct professor at Rutgers University - Camden School of Law.

Elton Anglada

After graduating from Temple Law School in 1993, Mr. Anglada went to work for the Philadelphia Defender Association. During his 25 year tenure as a Philadelphia PD, Mr. Anglada spent 15 years defending juveniles charged with serious crimes; 10 of those years running the Juvenile Unit and supervising younger attorneys. During his time in Philadelphia, Mr. Anglada also worked to create the Juvenile Defender Association of Pennsylvania, ("JDAP"), and served as President of JDAP. Prior to joining the adjunct faculty at Drexel Law, Mr. Anglada worked as a Lecturer at Law at UPENN Law School for 4 years teaching the Criminal Defense Clinical program. Mr. Anglada is currently employed as a Senior Trail Lawyer for NJOPD in Cape May County, NJ, representing indigent juveniles and adults.

Daniel E. Bacine

​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.​

Rory Bahadur

Professor Bahadur practiced admiralty and maritime law in south Florida; taught torts, admiralty and maritime law; and was the Director of Academic Support at St. Thomas University School of Law. He is currently a Professor of Law at the Washburn University School of Law.

Clymer Bardsley

Clymer comes to Drexel Kline Law from a combination of practicing and teaching dispute resolution. Most recently a family law attorney and mediator, Clymer is now refocusing his career on education, advising ADR students at Kline, teaching Team Processes at Temple's College of Education and Human Development, where he's been on the faculty in some form since 2015. Clymer has also taught mediation and negotiation at Teachers College at Columbia University since 2012 as an Instructor for the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution. Clymer maintains an active mediation practice, focusing mainly on special education matters between districts and families, on domestic relations matters, and on employment matters. Clymer also trains mediators and negotiators.

Richard Barkasy

Rich is a member at Santoro Law Group LLC, where he concentrates his practice on bankruptcy and complex business and real estate litigation matters. He is a big firm refugee, having been a partner at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, where he was chair of the bankruptcy practice, and at Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP. In addition to teaching at Drexel, Rich is an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School in Camden where he has taught Bankruptcy, Complex Civil Litigation, Delaware Corporate Litigation, Business Organizations, Secured Transactions, Construction Law, Commercial Law and Products Liability. He is proud to have been selected as Adjunct Professor of the Year by the Class of 2025 and the Class of 2014.

Eric Berg

After graduating from Rutgers Law School in 2011, Eric Berg, a New Jersey native, was a personal injury litigator for several years. However, Berg soon discovered a passion for legal research which led him to obtain a master’s degree in library and information science from Rutgers in August 2020. Prior to joining Kline Law's Legal Research Center, Berg was a research analyst at Fox Rothschild LLP.

Michael S. Berger

Professor Michael Berger is an award-winning medical malpractice attorney. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been listed by numerous publications, including Super Lawyers, as a top attorney. Prior to teaching at the law school he was an adjunct clinical professor at Rutgers University Law School.

David J. Berney

David Berney is the founder of Berney & Sang. His firm concentrates its practice in education law. In April 2018, his firm tried the first hostile school environment/bullying case in state court under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and achieved a landmark verdict. He has also argued several civil rights cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. From 2008-2020, Philadelphia Magazine named David a “Super Lawyer.” David is a magna cum laude graduate of Lehigh University. He received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research.

The Honorable Mark I. (Ret.) Bernstein

Judge Mark I. Bernstein is now available for private mediations and arbitrations. Before retiring in October 2016, he served as a Common Pleas Court Judge for almost 30 years. He is the author of comprehensive comments on the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence published by Gann Law Books. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has appointed Judge Bernstein to serve on important committees concerned with the quality of Justice, including the Civil Jury Instruction Committee which publishes Standard Jury Instructions. In 1995, Judge Bernstein designed and implemented the case management system for all Civil Major Jury cases, as a result of which there is no backlog of civil cases in Philadelphia County.

Nadeem A. Bezar

Professor Bezar is a partner with Kline & Specter, where his practice focuses on medical negligence, catastrophic personal injury and child abuse and human trafficking cases. Previously, he was a partner with Kolsby, Gordon, Robin, Shore & Bezar, where his practice concentrated 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.

Andrew J. Bond

Andrew Bond practice at Eckert Seamans based in Philadelphia. He focuses his practice on professional liability matters with particular emphasis on the defense of health care providers, hospitals, and physicians in complex medical malpractice actions. Andrew is involved in all areas of case management and phases of litigation. Outside of his practice, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters.

Hal Borden

Hal E. Borden is an associate in the intellectual property group at Dechert LLP. His practice focuses on trademark and copyright law, with an emphasis on trademark clearance, enforcement, and prosecution, as well as licensing agreements and other corporate transactions involving intellectual property assets.

G. Jeffrey Boujoukos

G. Jeffrey Boujoukos is the Senior Officer of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Director of the Philadelphia Regional Office, responsible for strategic planning, employee development, risk management, and collaboration with internal and external constituencies. Prior experience as securities litigation, enforcement defense and regulatory attorney representing broker-dealers and other financial services firms.

John T. Boxer

Professor Boxer is a partner at Morgan Lewis where he focuses on developing and implementing multigenerational estate plans for high net-worth individuals and their families. His practice also involves closely held business planning, philanthropic planning, shareholder and limited partnership agreements; and federal and state income, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues. Professor Boxer is a board member of the Philadelphia Estate Planning Council and serves as co-chair to the Council's Roundtable Speaker Program. He regularly presents to and collaborates with private wealth managers, life insurance advisors, CPAs, and other professional groups on estate and trust administration matters, estate and gift tax planning and compliance and business succession planning.

Keir Bradford-Grey

Keir Bradford-Grey is Chief Defender, Defenders Association of Philadelphia. Before taking office, Professor Bradford-Grey was a trial lawyer at the Defender Association and the Delaware Federal Public Defender’s Office. She was named chief defender for the Montgomery County Public Defender’s Office in 2012. She also worked as an assistant public defender in Philadelphia between 1999 and 2007.

Erica Briant

Professor Briant is a Legal Fellow with Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps, where she helps low-income clients in removing barriers to employment by seeking expungements of their criminal records, pardons, legal name changes, childline registry appeals and employment discrimination claims.

Rhonda Brownstein

Professor Brownstein is the executive director of the Education Law Center. She previously was the director of litigation and legal affairs at the Southern Poverty Law Center and worked as a Legal Services attorney in Pittsburgh and in Mobile, Ala.

Elise Bruhl

Elise Bruhl is the Chief Deputy City Solicitor of the HIPAA & Privacy Law Unit of the City of Philadelphia Law Department. She joined the Law Department in 2001 and previously worked in the Law Department's Affirmative Litigation and Appeals Units. She was a law clerk for Judge Marvin Katz in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for Judge Marjorie O. Rendell on the Third Circuit. Apart from teaching appellate advocacy at Drexel University Kline School of Law, she has taught law and literature, appellate advocacy, literary theory, and yoga, including stints at King's College, London; the University of Pennsylvania; and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Sophie Bryan

Andrew Bull

Andrew is the founding partner of Bull Blockchain Law LLP, a law firm specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrency law. An alumni of Drexel University, Andrew obtained his law and masters degrees while writing a thesis on the regulation of cryptocurrencies. After finding Bitcoin in 2011, Andrew ran a cryptocurrency investment fund and one of the first cryptocurrency mining companies in the United States. A regarded speaker and author on blockchain and cryptocurrency issues, he contributes publications for legal journals, speaks at international conferences, and his law firm contributed to a European Union publication on U.S. blockchain legislation.

Joan E. Burnes

Professor Burnes has over two decades of experience as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, investigating and prosecuting white collar offenses including health care fraud, drug diversion, fraud on the government, environmental crimes, and economic crimes, with additional experience in narcotics and violent crime. She was a law clerk for Judge Raymond J. Broderick in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for Judge Jane R. Roth on the Third Circuit. Joan began practice as a litigation associate at Dechert LLP. She has taught trial advocacy to prosecutors at the National Advocacy Center and conducted trainings on US federal criminal law and trial practice to international law enforcement partners.

Deborah Butler

Deborah is an accomplished commercial attorney who has spent the last 15+ years building and leading global information management programs for Fortune 500 companies. As the Chief Privacy Officer for Unisys Corporation and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (now Pfizer) and the Director of Knowledge Assurance at Dell, she helped these companies mitigate their information risk and maximize their information value. Currently, she manages cybersecurity compliance matters and performs executive reporting for compliance purposes at BB&T.

Eric Cahow

Dr. Cahow has spent almost 30 years working in government programs health insurance, spending time with national companies such as Aetna, Elevance (formerly Anthem), and United's subsidiary, Optum. Currently, he serves as Vice President, Government Markets Performance, at Independence Blue Cross, where he is responsible for quality improvement, risk adjustment activities, and overall operational and financial performance of the Medicare Advantage book of business. Among the core activities he leads is value based contracting strategy for healthcare providers in Medicare. He has previously taught Health Policy and Management at the University of South Florida and he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay.

Kathleen Campbell

Kathleen Campbell

Professor Campbell focuses her practice on environmental, toxic tort and class action litigation. She has represented potentially responsible parties in cost recovery and contribution actions under CERCLA and state law and defended complex toxic tort claims for personal injury, wrongful death and medical monitoring. She has also litigated federal, state and private enforcement actions under an array of environmental statutes.

Martha Candiello

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.

John Cannan

John Cannan received his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law and practiced historic preservation and land use law in Baltimore. After obtaining his MLS from the University of Maryland, College of Library and Information Science, he was assistant law librarian at the Montgomery County (MD) Circuit Court Law Library and a legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Cannan was formerly a research and instructional services librarian at the Kline School of Law, and is currently the Faculty Scholarship Librarian and an instructor at Villanova University.

David J. Caputo

Professor Caputo is a partner at Kline & Specter. A former federal prosecutor, Caputo’s practice includes the full range of catastrophic injury litigation handled by the firm and representing individuals pursuing claims under the federal False Claims Act and IRS and SEC whistleblower programs.

Bart Cassidy

Jenaleigh Castano

Jenaleigh Castano is currently an associate at Ogletree Deakins. She previously clerked for the Honorable Edward J. McBride, Jr., Presiding Judge of the criminal division in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Camden County. As a law clerk, Jenaleigh became a certified mediator in New Jersey and mediated cases in the Special Civil Part. Jenaleigh also clerked part-time for the Honorable Michele M. Fox, J.S.C., Ret./Rec. While a student at the Drexel Kline School of Law, Jenaleigh served as a Dean’s Scholar for Academic Skills, and received the Pro Bono Recognition Award for having volunteered over 100 hours as a Tax Preparer for The Campaign for Working Families, Inc.

Cristi Charpentier

Scott J. Ciocco

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.

Rocco C. Cipparone, Jr.

Professor Cipparone is an accomplished criminal defense attorney with over two decades of criminal trial experience. He has served as a federal prosecutor and clerked for the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica, former Chief Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Cipparone has taught Criminal Practice as part of the adjunct faculty at Rutgers University School of Law-Camden.

Susie Cirilli

Susie is a principal with Offit Kurman. Her practice consists of assisting clients with issues involving the ADA, FMLA, Title VII and Title IX claims. She litigates on matters related to hostile work environment, discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, race and disability, and restrictive covenants. She often advises employers on day-to-day employment matters and assists her clients on employee issues such as hiring and terminations, which includes drafting and negotiating separation agreements. Susie has experience drafting and revising employment agreements, employee handbooks, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements. Additionally, she serves as general counsel to start-ups. She counsels I serve as general counsel to small businesses and start-ups. Susie is admitted in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Vermont.

Theresa M. Clark

Professor Theresa M. Clark received her B.S. sum laude from Duquesne University and her J.D. from Washington University School of Law. Following law school, she attended the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice, Italy, where she received as European Joint Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation. She also worked as a domestic violence staff attorney for Laurel Legal Services, Inc. Before coming to the law school she was an associate professor of legal writing at Villanova University School of Law.

Erica Cohen

Erica Cohen is currently a Legal Fellow at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which is consistently rated the top children's hospital in the nation. Professor Cohen focuses her work on regulatory matters, consent and custody issues, professional liability, transactional matters, managed care, and employment litigation. She graduated magna cum laude from the Drexel University School of Law in 2013. Professor Cohen completed a number of legal internships and assistantships while in law school, including a clerkship with the Honorable Elizabeth T. Hey in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and a co-op with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, P.C. and also served as an editor of the Drexel Law Review.

Merritt A. Cole

Professor Cole has extensive experience in securities and corporate law matters, including public and private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments and control contests, Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and compliance and corporate governance. He is counsel at Earp Cohn, P.C., 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.

Jennifer Collins

Professor Collins is housing attorney at the AIDS Law Project of PA, where she represents clients dealing with HIV and AIDS in housing cases, including evictions, loss of housing subsidies, disability accommodation claims, and housing maintenance complaints. Prior to joining the AIDS Law Project of PA, she completed a fellowship in the Housing Unit at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia.

Robert Connolly

Paul Connuck

Dale Cooke

Dale Cooke is the president of PhillyCooke Consulting, which helps companies communicate about FDA-regulated products using 21st century tools, while remaining compliant with regulations written in the 1960s. Dale has worked with more than 50 pharmaceutical and medical device clients and more than 25 advertising agencies around the world. His insights have been featured in the Politico, The Pink Sheet, Stat News, Law360, and other publications. Dale is an active member of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS), Drug Information Association (DIA), Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI), the Alliance for a Stronger FDA, and the Google Health Advisory Board.

Lawrence Copeland

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.

John Cornwell

Professor Cornwell has written in the areas of criminal law and procedure, mental health law and federal civil rights law. His scholarship often focuses on mentally disordered offenders, including schoolyard assassins and individuals acquitted by reason of insanity or found incompetent to stand trial. He has also written extensively on laws pertaining to sexual predators, exploring the constitutional limits on states’ authority to confine this population for purposes of public safety and psychiatric rehabilitation. In 2010, he authored THE GLANNON GUIDE TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, whose fourth edition was published by Wolters Kluwer in 2019.

Sarah Coyle

Sarah Coyle is a public-interest attorney and educator focused on access to justice and criminal legal system reform. She serves as a Deputy Chief Legal Specialist with the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Division on Civil Rights, and previously served as Managing Attorney at Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity, where she led expungement, clemency, and reentry advocacy. Professor Coyle designs and supervises experiential clinics that partner students with courts, community organizations, and government agencies, emphasizing ethical, trauma-informed lawyering and real-world impact.

Edward Cramp

Edward Cramp is the Managing Partner of Duane Morris LLP's San Diego Office and Team Lead for the Duane Morris Education industry group. In his legal practice, Edward represents institutions of higher education in accreditation, regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters. Edward is active in the higher education community. He regularly speaks at conferences and events throughout the country on a variety of issues.

John T. Crutchlow

John is a partner at Youman & Caputo LLC where he focuses his practice on representing whistleblowers. John represents relators in qui tam cases under the False Claims Act, and whistleblowers before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) whistleblower program and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission whistleblower program. John returned to private practice in 2023 following more than a decade with the federal government where he served as a civil Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in Philadelphia, where he focused on health care fraud cases arising under the False Claims Act, and as a Trial Attorney with the Enforcement Division of the SEC. John began his career as a litigation associate at Duane Morris LLP.

Michael Curley

Adam Cutler

Bartholomew Dalton

Professor Dalton's practice focuses on plaintiff medical malpractice and personal injury. Professor Dalton has been recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2012 Lawyer of the Year in personal injury litigation. He is a current member of the Delaware Bar Association and Delaware Trial Lawyers Association.

Patricia A. Daly

Professor Daly is a magna cum laude graduate of Temple University School of Law, where she served as an articles editor for The Temple Law Review. Professor Daly has spent the majority of her career working in the Pennsylvania Superior Court. As the deputy clerk for the Honorable Phyllis W. Beck for over 14 years, Professor Daly drafted legal opinions, co-wrote a number of scholarly articles, and mentored new lawyers and summer interns. Professor Daly also instructed law clerks statewide on ethical issues in judicial chambers.

Gaetano D'Andrea

Professor D'Andrea is an assistant district attorney at the Philadelphia District Attorney's office. There, he prosecutes homicide cases from preliminary hearings through trial. He has also litigated cases out of the charging unit and trial unit.

Sherrell L. Dandy

Sherrell L. Dandy is an Assistant Supervisor of the Homicide and Non-Fatal Shooting Unit at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. Sherrell is a graduate of Ursinus College and the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University where she received awards for excellence in trial advocacy. In addition to working at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, Sherrell worked as an associate at Marks O’Neill, O’Brien, Doherty & Kelly where she handled complex professional liability and employment discrimination cases. She also served as an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Virginia. Throughout her career, Sherrell prosecuted hundreds of felony bench trials and approximately 50 jury trials.

Scott Daniels

Scott Daniels is a Senior Director on the Comcast Total Reward team responsible for overseeing their enterprise-wide disability and absence management programs. Prior to joining Comcast in February of 2015, Scott was a practicing attorney for nine years in the New York metropolitan area focusing predominantly on a wide range of disability claims and New York workers’ compensation benefits. In addition to practicing law, Scott has taught several lectures on the topic of disability benefits to attorneys across the country. Scott has an undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and received his Juris Doctorate from Touro Law Center in New York. Scott resides in Philadelphia with his wife and two children. 

Justin C. Danilewitz

Professor Danilewitz is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the criminal division for the District of New Jersey U.S. Attorney's Office. There, he is responsible for prosecuting a wide range of federal crimes including narcotics, firearms and child pornography offenses, as well as immigration fraud. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, he was a white collar and securities litigation practice and appellate practice associate at Dechert, LLP.

Legrome Davis

The Honorable Legrome D. Davis

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.

Desjeneé Davis

Desjeneé is a Deputy City Solicitor in the Civil Rights Unit of the Philadelphia Law Department. As a trial lawyer she represents the City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Police Department, Corrections Department and its employees in civil matters before the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Federal Court. Additionally, Desjeneé was honored with the 2023 International Municipal Lawyer’s Association Young Lawyer Award and the Phila Bar Assn 2024 F. Sean Peretta Service Award. Aside from her legal work, Desjeneé is the President of the National Bar Assn Women Lawyers Division (Phila Chapter), Chair of the Diversity in the Profession Committee of the Phila Bar Assn and an Editorial Member of The Legal Intelligencer's Young Lawyer Editorial Board.

Jens Defoor

During his time as Ghent University, Professor Defoor wrote his thesis on comparing FSMA and SEC enforcement of insider trading. He recently served as the Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Deborah Silverman Katz, A.J.S.C. of Camden, New Jersey.

David DeMatteo

Kevin Demko

Michael DePaul

For more than three decades, Michael DePaul has tapped into his multi-faceted tax accounting and legal expertise to deliver significant results for businesses and individuals throughout the region. A Partner in RKL’s Tax Services Group and co-leader of the firm’s Estate and Trust Planning Group, Mike focuses on the needs of closely held businesses and high net worth individuals to deliver a comprehensive range of personalized services including estate and trust planning, business succession planning and tax compliance.

Ellen Deringer

Professor Deringer's practice focuses on estate planning and administration, family business succession planning, federal income, estate and gift taxation, charitable giving, and tax-exempt organizations.

Lisa Detwiler

Professor Detwiler has practiced banking and securities law for the past 30 years. She currently works as the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of FS Investment Solutions. Previously she worked for Bank of New York Mellon, as the general counsel of the separately managed account business unit. She was a partner at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP and served as Chief Counsel of the PA Department of Banking and an attorney at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Tracey E. Diamond

Professor Diamond is an attorney for Pepper Hamilton LLP specializing 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.

Donald P. DiCarlo, Jr.

Professor DiCarlo is a Senior Vice President at Wilmington Trust (an M&T Bank company). He serves as Chief Planning Officer of the Wealth Management Division, overseeing strategic advisory and family office services. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). His past experience includes the private practice of law and active duty service as a Judge Advocate in the United States Army.

Carolyne Dilgard-Clark

Professor Dilgard-Clark runs a boutique practice focusing on commercial transactions, formations, and governance issues. Before starting her business, she was a corporate attorney at Dechert LLP and clerked for the Honorable Joseph E. Irenas.

Tom Dolgenos

Thomas Dolgenos

Professor Dolgenos served as the Chief of the Federal Litigation Unit at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office for 15 years. He was awarded the Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer" for Criminal Prosecution for three consecutive years and served as the Chairman for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on the Rules of Evidence.

Elisa Downey-Zayas

Antonia Dumas

Antonia Dumas is an attorney with experience at the intersection of data privacy, cybersecurity, and technology. In practice, she provided counsel to organizations across sectors to navigate evolving domestic and international data privacy and cybersecurity compliance issues, including building customized comprehensive compliance programs. She is currently a Manager with Deloitte's Global Privacy Office where she leads and supports programs and initiatives for global privacy risk management and compliance. She is also active in the privacy community where she is an active writer, speaker and teacher of privacy, cybersecurity, and technology topics and serves as an adjunct professor of cybersecurity and privacy law. In addition, she is a champion and advocate for neurodiversity.

Peter J. Egler

Professor Egler is the Legal Research Center Research & Instructional Services Librarian. 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.

Sarah Endres

Sarah Endres, currently works for Virginia Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program when not acting as a Fellow at Drexel. Prior to working with VJLAP, Sarah was a prosecutor in Rockingham, Virginia. Sarah has also worked for small firms as an associate, working in family law, real estate, and patent prosecution. Sarah graduated from University of Virginia School of Law in 2015.

Phyllis Horn Epstein

Professor Phyllis Horn Epstein is a partner at Epstein, Shapiro & Epstein, PC, a boutique tax firm based in Philadelphia. She is an elected Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, an organization comprised of selected tax attorneys dedicated to advancing sound tax policy and discussing issues impacting the tax system. Professor Epstein has held significant roles, including serving as Treasurer for the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Co-Chair of the Commission on Women in the Profession, and Chair of the American Bar Association's Individual and Family Tax Committee, where she remains an active participant and frequent presenter. She has authored numerous tax-related articles and is the author of Women at Law, published by the ABA LPM Division in 2004 and 2014. Additionally, she serves as the PBA attorney liaison to the IRS Senior Stakeholder Liaison, an organization focused on promoting fair tax administration.

Immaculata “Mackie" Ermocida

Mackie worked for the Department of Defense and General Services Administration as a Contracting Officer. In this role, she negotiated and executed multi-million dollar contracts with countless Fortune 50 companies. During her time with the federal government, she went to business and law school during the evenings. She currently works for Comcast Corporation in the role of Associate Counsel where she negotiates government contracts. In her free time, she loves all things food, Philly, and exploring the world.

Samantha Evans

Daniel Faigus

Daniel Faigus is a member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Private Funds Unit within the Division of Examinations. Professor Faigus is responsible for leading examinations of investment advisers and other entities registered with the Commission, with a focus on advisers to private equity and hedge funds. He has also earned multiple certifications, including CAIA Charter Holder, Certification in Securities and Financial Regulation, and Fraud Examination (CFE).

Alanna Farber

Alanna Farber is an Assistant Public Defender at the Delaware Office of Defense Services, where she supervises the Post-Disposition Unit and serves as the office's Mental Health Specialist. Prior to her current role, Ms. Farber was a felony trial attorney, specifically representing young adults and juveniles tried as adults. After graduating from law school, Ms. Farber clerked for Hon. President Judge Jan Jurden (ret.) of the Superior Court of Delaware. During law school, Ms. Farber was involved in multiple clinics including the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Michigan Innocence Clinic. She also served as co-chair of the Organization of Public Interest Students. Before attending law school, Ms. Farber served as a first grade teacher in Newark, New Jersey through Teach For America.

Jay Feinman

Alex Feldman

Alex Feldman currently serves as a risk specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. In this position, he oversees and executes the AML/BSA/OFAC portion of safety and soundness examinations of banks, bank holding companies, and trust companies with assets of up to $100B. He also briefs the Safety and Soundness team on regulatory updates and helps to craft best practices for examinations district-wide.

Veronica J. Finkelstein

Veronica J. Finkelstein is a 2004 graduate, with honors, of the Emory University School of Law and 2001 graduate, with dual honors, of the Pennsylvania State University. Finkelstein currently works as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She served as the training officer and paralegal supervisor for the civil division before being selected as Senior Litigation Counsel. She has taught at the National Advocacy Center on ethics, appellate advocacy, legal writing, and trial practice. In 2014 she was awarded the Executive Office of United States Attorneys Director’s Award for Superior Performance as a Civil Assistant United States Attorney. Finkelstein serves as adjunct faculty of law at Drexel's Kline School of Law, Emory Law, and Rutgers Law.

Dayna Finkelstein

Dayna is a Partner at Blank Rome LLP in the Commercial Real Estate department. Dayna is originally from Philadelphia and outside of Drexel and Blank Rome, Dayna is actively involved in various boards and activities through Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

Edward J. Finn

Edward Finn grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, where he currently resides with his wife and three children. Ed is a practicing attorney and is a partner at the law firm of Mullen Coughlin LLC. Ed focuses his practice on data privacy and cybersecurity, focusing on incident response, and assists organizations in various industry groups with ensuring compliance with a wide variety of state and federal data privacy and information security rules, statutes and regulations and various state consumer and data protection statutes. He has significant experience handling thousands of incidents across various industry sectors.

Jordan L. Fischer

Professor Fischer is co-founder and managing partner of XPAN Law Group, LLC. She has varied experience in international law having clerked for the Vice-President Koen Lenaerts in the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. While attending law school, she served as Symposium Editor on the Drexel Law Review, where she organized a daylong symposium, “Building Global Professionalism.” She also served on the board of the International Law and Human Rights Society, interned for the Honorable Juan R. Sànchez in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and completed a co-op at the International Bridges to Justice in Geneva, Switzerland.

Lauren Flicker

Angie Lyne Fredrickson

In addition to teaching at the Kline School of Law, Angie is an associate attorney at Palmer Biezup and Henderson, a boutique admiralty litigation firm where she advises maritime, transportation, and insurance clients on matters related to domestic and international commerce, including commercial litigation and transactions, insurance and reinsurance disputes, personal injury disputes, regulatory compliance, marine environmental pollution response and liability, and general casualty defense. Her publications include "The California Coastal Act and Ports: the Unintended Environmental Justice Implications of Preserving California’s Coastline," and "The Ice-Free Arctic is Coming: Why a Circumpolar Network of Marine Protected Areas is Needed to Protect Arctic Fisheries From Climate Change."

Lloyd Freeman

Professor Lloyd Freeman is Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, P.C., where he is responsible for advancing and expanding diversity throughout the firm and across the legal industry as a whole. Freeman develops and drives the firm’s diversity initiatives related to attorney hiring, retention and advancement. He oversees the firm’s affinity groups and promotes mentorship and sponsorship as key retention initiatives. Freeman is a former partner in the business litigation group at Archer & Greiner, P.C., where he concentrated his practice in commercial and complex matters involving consumer fraud, real property, franchise, business torts and other issues related to business and contractual disputes. As a member of Archer Discovery Strategies—the firm's practice group dedicated to eDiscovery litigation and document management practices—Freeman managed electronic discovery in complex state and federal matters. The recipient of many awards, Freeman was named one of the Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 by the National Bar Association and one of the Most Influential Black Lawyers in America by Savoy Magazine.

Arianna Freeman

Arianna Freeman is the Managing Attorney of the Non-Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Community Defender Office (FCDO) for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where she represents individuals in state and federal custody who are challenging the legality of their convictions and sentences. Before joining the Non-Capital Habeas Unit in 2014, she represented death-sentenced prisoners in the FCDO's Capital Habeas Unit.

Harold H. Fullmer

​Professor Fullmer, a partner at Baker Hostetler, focuses his practice on electrical, mechanical and computer science 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.

Kenneth G. Andres, Jr.

Ken Andres is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Andres is the President of the American Board of Trial Advocates-South Jersey (ABOTA) and a Past-President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of New Jersey (now NJAJ). AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, Ken handles personal injury and medical malpractice cases and has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” and by numerous organizations as one of the premier civil trial lawyers in New Jersey. He has been appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court to serve on the Civil Practice, Model Civil Jury Charge and Ethics Committees. Prior to coming to Drexel, he taught Trial Advocacy at Rutgers Camden School of Law.

Kelly Gable

Eamon Gallagher

Eamon Gallagher works with several entrepreneurship and startup initiatives in and around Philadelphia, including as Program Director at ic@3401, Philadelphia’s largest community of funded start-ups, and as co-organizer of Philly New Tech Meetup, the city’s largest active monthly tech meetup. He is an attorney and worked in Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, founded Drexel's Transactional Law Team, volunteered at Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and participated in Keiretsu Forum’s Due Diligence Fellowship program. Eamon’s first career was in corporate recruiting. He earned a J.D. from Drexel University Kline School of Law with a concentration in Business and Entrepreneurship Law. He also holds a B.S. in Public Policy and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Rhode Island.

Monique Myatt Galloway

Monique Myatt Galloway, Esquire, is Regional Counsel with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for Region III located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she is responsible for advising the Region’s leadership and staff on all legal matters impacting the region, including procurement, grants, environmental, labor, ethics and litigation. Ms. Galloway is a former federal judicial law clerk to the Honorable Cynthia M. Rufe of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Ms. Galloway began her legal career as a trial attorney with the Department of the Navy, Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C., and later as an associate at a global defense law firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Meredith Galto

Meredith began her legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable W. Harold Albritton in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. She then joined Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP as a litigation associate working in both San Francisco and Philadelphia before moving to Fox Rothschild LLP in Philadelphia. After practicing law, Meredith held various positions at Temple University's Beasley School of law, including Director of Student Affairs and Director of Academic Success. She also developed and taught Temple Law's third-year bar preparation course.

Shayna Gannone

Shayna Gannone has been a prosecutor since she graduated from law school in 2009. She is currently a Deputy Attorney General working in the Environmental Crimes Section of the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. From 2015 to 2022, Shayna worked as an Assistant District Attorney at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. There, she was assigned to the Law Division’s Post-Conviction Relief Act Unit where she handled homicide and violent felony PCRA claims in the Court of Common Pleas. Shayna was also the director of the Philadelphia DAO’s Indicting Grand Jury Program. Shayna began her career as a prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, assigned to the trial division. Throughout her career, Shayna has tried numerous jury trials and conducted countless hearings.

Jill S. Garabedian

Professor Garabedian is an associate at Wade, Goldstein, Landau & Abruzzo where she concentrates her practice in physician transactional matters, including employment negotiations, regulatory issues, as well as assisting physicians with employment matters. She also is involved in estate planning and trust and estate administration.

Leeza Garber

Leeza Garber specializes in cybersecurity and privacy law, and provides related consulting services for her clients. She has appeared on numerous media outlets, including Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, i24NEWS, MSNBC, CBSN, HLN, OANN, FOX29, FOX5, NBC10, and CBS3 to discuss and analyze issues relating to the intersection of law, technology, and privacy. Additionally, she speaks nationally at legal and technology conferences regarding the latest advances in the fields of privacy, cybersecurity, digital forensics, data breaches and social media technology.

Alan E. Garfield

Professor Garfield is a Distinguished Professor of Law at Widener University having taught Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Contracts, Copyright, Media Law, International Intellectual Property Law, International and Comparative Copyright Law, Corporate Takeovers, and Comparative Corporate Law. He is also the author of "Bench Press" for Delaware's The News Journal, a monthly column on constitutional law topics and cases before the Supreme Court.

Vineet Gauri

Vineet Gauri is currently Of Counsel at Barnes & Thornburg in Philadelphia. From 2007-2025, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, including as Deputy Criminal Chief and Chief of National Security & Cybercrime.

Sharon Geller

Sharon Geller, a comedic actress who has appeared on Saturday Night Live 4 times, has been teaching IMPROV FOR LAWYERS, a course she created, at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law since 2009. After spending 10 years in the corporate world, Sharon began her career as a comedic actress. She is in the national touring company of the off-Broadway hit, 'OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES,' is featured in a national TV commercial, is a guest spokeswoman on QVC and teaches comedy improv at the Walnut St Theatre. Her CLE, 'A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO ARBITRATION - Great Communication Techniques for Lawyers' is presented around the country at legal conferences and law firms, teaching people how to think more quickly on their feet, listen better, be a better team player and think outside of the box!

Edmond M. George

Professor George is a chairman and partner at Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell and Hippel LLP. He has extensive experience with all types of commercial litigation and business transactions including the financial and tax aspects of business reorganizations and the representation of debtors, trustees, secured lenders and committees in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware bankruptcy proceedings. Professor George also has extensive experience in out of court workouts, restructuring, intercreditor agreements and other similar arrangements.

Lance Geren

Lance Geren is a partner at O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue, LLP, one of the largest and oldest firms in the United States representing labor organizations and employee benefit funds. Mr. Geren represents international and local labor organizations before labor arbitrators, administrative agencies, and in state and federal court. Mr. Geren provides all facts of representation to labor unions in the private and public sectors, including handling labor arbitrations, negotiating collective bargaining agreements, assisting in union organizing drives, representing unions in state and federal court and before state and federal agencies. Mr. Geren practices before the National Labor Relations Board, state labor relations boards. Mr. Geren began his career as a field attorney with the NLRB.

Patrick J. Gibbons

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.

Michael Gioffre

Professor Gioffre was the chief compliance and ethics officer at Voya Financial, formerly known as ING. Previously, he served as chief compliance officer for ING Investment Management. He has also served as counsel for Aeltus Investment Management and for AIG.

James Goepel

James (“Jim”) Goepel is CEO and General Counsel for Fathom Cyber LLC. Early in his professional career, Jim worked as a systems administrator and cybersecurity lead for organizations in the Northern Virginia area, including the United States House of Representatives, where he was responsible for the maintenance and security of systems which processed critical and sensitive legislative information. Jim drew upon this hands-on experience when he built his legal practice. He worked as outside counsel with one of the largest firms in the country for several for several years before transitioning to in-house positions with Unisys Corporation, The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and as GC and CTO for a cybersecurity tools vendor.

Daniel J. Goettle

Professor Goettle is co-leader of BakerHostetler's national Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Science Litigation team. He represents technology companies in patent litigation in the field of computer science, with an emphasis on computer security and the electrical-engineering arts. He has represented a multinational computer company multiple times in federal court, as well as before the U.S. International Trade Commission. In addition to litigation, Professor Goettle performs inter parties review and reexamination work before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Professor Goettle started his intellectual property career obtaining patents in the computer science and electrical engineering fields. Prior to entering private practice, Dan served in the U.S. Coast Guard for 12 years, first as a line officer and then as a lawyer. Dan argued dozens of criminal courts martial appeals and negotiated new treaties at two United Nations organizations.

The Honorable Mitchell S. Goldberg

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.

Ronda Goldfein

Mitchell Goldman

C. Mitchell Goldman

Professor Goldman retired as a partner with Duane Morris, LLP where his practice focused 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. He is currently the CEO of Mid-Atlantic Dental Partners, a regional dental support organization, that provides management support to dental practices.

Sara M. Goldstein

Sara M. Goldstein, Esq. is a privacy and data protection attorney at BakerHostetler in Philadelphia. She was previously general counsel for MRO, a leader in the secure, compliant and efficient exchange of Protected Health Information. At MRO, Professor Goldstein provided legal direction and guidance for the company and for overseeing MRO’s compliance with HIPAA. In addition, Professor Goldstein writes about the different legal issues surrounding Release of Information for various publications and speaks to healthcare organizations across the country about compliance with federal and state laws related to health information privacy and security. Professor. Goldstein holds a B.A. from Smith College and received her JD with honors from the Kline School of Law.

Stephany Gordon

Stephany L. Gordon is a partner at Bennett, Bricklin & Saltzburg LLC, where she focuses her practice on automobile, premises, and product liability defense. Prior to joining the firm, Stephany worked as a litigation attorney in the areas of bankruptcy and foreclosure. While attending the Kline School of Law, Stephany received recognition for her outstanding pro bono and service work, and for her work in the Stern Community Lawyering Clinic.

Sarah L. Grieb

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.

Thomas M. Griffin

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.

Nina Gurak

Nina Gurak is currently a policy manager at Healthy and Free Tennessee, where she presents reproductive policy work in TN. Her work focuses on launching upcoming resources on reproductive health, rights, and justice legislation in the last decade. Nina has experience in local, state, federal, and international policy work.

David M. Haendler

David practiced law for approximately 10 years before becoming a law librarian, specializing in product liability, securities fraud, and derivative litigation. He has worked in various roles at the Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel law libraries.

Deeya Haldar

Ms. Haldar is the Supervising Attorney for the Drexel Civil Litigation Field Clinic at Philadelphia Legal Assistance (“PLA”) and a Co-Supervising Attorney of the Family Law Unit at PLA. After law school, Ms. Haldar clerked for the Honorable Carolyn Berger of the Delaware Supreme Court. Prior to her time at PLA, Ms. Haldar was a law guardian at the Legal Aid Society in New York. Ms. Haldar has conducted numerous trainings for attorneys and law student interns in substantive law and procedure regarding family law matters, and has supervised numerous certified legal interns during their court appearances in Family Court. She has also presented extensively on the topic of trauma-informed lawyering and is the co-author of an article about teaching trauma-informed lawyering to law students.

James Hartz

Prof. Hartz currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in corporate financial management and entrepreneurial finance at the LeBow College of Business, as well as corporate finance at the Kline School of Law.

Matthew H. Haverstick

Professor Haverstick is a partner with Kleinbard LLC in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, where he is a member of the firm's government relations and litigation department. Previously a partner at Conrad O'Brien, 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.

Amanda D. Haverstick

Professor Haverstick has been a Labor & Employment Group counsel at Reed Smith since 2013. Her practice focuses on defending employers, employment and benefits litigation and agency proceedings, including single-plaintiff and complex class and collective actions under the FLSA, Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA and state discrimination and wage-and-hour laws. In addition, Professor Haverstick has extensive appellate practice experience in the U.S. and Pennsylvania Supreme Courts on wage-and-hour class certification issues, as well as the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Seventh Circuits on claims involving the ADA, FMLA, Title VII, FLSA, and each of their state law counterparts.

Kristin Hayes

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.

Kirk S. Heilbrun

Professor Heilbrun is a member of the Drexel University Department of Psychology. 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.

Joanne Heisey

Joanne Heisey is an Assistant Federal Defender in the capital habeas unit of the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where she represents death-sentenced clients in post-conviction litigation. She previously worked as a post-conviction attorney with the Office of Capital and Forensic Writs in Austin, Texas, where she also handled capital cases in post-conviction proceedings.

Rob Henninger

My entire adult working life has been devoted to labor unions and labor law. My early work history, includes organizing a shower door factory for the Teamsters and working as a lecturer for Teamsters Joint Council No. 53 (Philadelphia) Organizing School. After law school, I worked for over 20 years as a union-side labor attorney at several law firms in Philadelphia, followed by seven years as a labor mediator for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. I know work as an Arbitrator for the State of New Jersey. My personal interests include blues music, travel (including Galapagos, various places in the U.S., including the Grand Canyon and Alaska, and Canada), dogs (especially black labs), and sports (Go Phils! Go Flyers!).

Gregory Hessinger

J. Patrick Hickey

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.

Jeffrey Hiller

Jeffrey Hiller is an industry professional with over 25 years of experience, specializing in Investment Advisor services. Jeffrey began his compliance career as Senior Counsel in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement in Washington, D.C. Following his government service, he held CCO roles with several leading Wall Street financial firms, and was Chief Compliance Officer and Managing Director of Principal Global Investors where he created and managed the firm’s global compliance program. In his capacity as CCO, he provided global leadership and direction on regulatory compliance and ethical business practices for all of the firm’s business domestically, internationally and its seven boutique investment advisers. He is currently Managing Director at Oyster Consulting.

Carl W. Hittinger

Carl Hittinger is a senior partner at BakerHostetler where he serves as the National Team Leader of BakerHostetler's Antitrust and Competition Practice and is the Litigation Coordinator in the firm's Philadelphia office. He focuses his practice on complex commercial and civil litigation, with a particular emphasis on antitrust and unfair competition matters. Over the past 40 years, Carl has counseled and represented clients on all aspects of civil and criminal antitrust and unfair competition law and class action litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants in trial and appellate courts and before enforcement agencies nationwide. He is a frequent author and speaker on antitrust topics. A recipient of the Burton Award for Legal Writing, he was also a federal judicial law clerk.

Kelly Hodge

Kelley B. Hodge

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.

Peter Hoffman

David Hoffman

Practice Professor of Law David Hoffman is the 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.

Peter J. Hoffman

Mr. Hoffman is a Member of the Philadelphia office of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, a large general practice law firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also a member of ADR Options as a neutral mediator. Mr. Hoffman currently sits as a Judge Pro Tem, Settlement Master, and Discovery Master for the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County.

Mr. Hoffman is a past Chair of the Civil Procedural Rules Committee, and past Chairman of Hearing Committee 1.15, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board. Mr. Hoffman was a co-author of the book Laws and Regulations Affecting Medical Practice. He has been listed as a top attorney in Philadelphia Magazine each time the article appears and has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 1995.

Ernest Holtzheimer

Professor Holtzheimer is a Partner at Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC in the firm's Philadelphia office and is a member of the firm's Mergers & Acquisitions and Business Advisory practice groups. He serves as outside general counsel to a number of emerging and middle market companies, advising such clients on their entity formations, capital raises (convertible debt, SAFEs, and priced financings), restructurings, supply and services agreements, material vendor contracts, loan documentation, and merger and acquisition activities. Outside of his legal practice, Professor Holtzheimer serves as the Managing Director of an institutional venture fund.

Chelsea Hooks

Chelsea Hooks is an associate director in academic and membership affairs where she provides legislative and interpretative support to the Division II membership. She is from Miami, Florida and is a licensed attorney with the State of Maryland. She serves as the primary liaison to the Division II Legislation Committee, as well as provides legislative support to the Division II Management Council, Division II Executive Board, Division II Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement and Division II Championships Committee. Finally, she provides oversight to the Division II Academic Requirements Committee.

Kevin Huang

Professor Huang is Managing Director and Counsel for Ardelis Health, a consulting firm providing strategic marketing, management, regulatory and compliance consulting to clients in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to working at Ardelis, he was an associate at Dilworth Paxson where he focused his practice in the areas of insolvency and restructuring as well as commercial and general litigation, and specialized in the field of commercial bankruptcy and creditor’s rights. Professor Huang has handled both the defense and prosecution of claims in state and federal courts throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Keisha Hudson

Professor Hudson is an assistant federal defender in the capital habeas unit of the Federal Community Defender in Philadelphia. She represents clients on Pennsylvania and Delaware death row appeals in federal and state courts. Prior to her time there she was an assistant defender at the Defender Association where she represented indigent clients in Mental Health Court.

Katelyn Hufe

Ms. Hufe is a managing partner at Gian-Grasso, Tomczak, & Hufe, P.C., in Philadelphia. She focuses her practice exclusively in immigration law and handles matters primarily involving deportation defense, litigation, appeals, asylum, U-visas, family-based petitions, and protecting clients with final orders of removal. She also leads the firm’s business immigration practice, focusing mainly on E and L visas, national interest waivers, and applications for employment-based permanent residence. She is the American Immigration Council's Philadelphia Ambassador and an active member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Philadelphia Bar Association. She is admitted to practice in PA and NJ and in the Third and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Hillary Hughes

Hillary Hughes has 25 years experience representing talent, entrepreneurs, start-up and established brands as well as angel, venture capital and private equity investors. She practices in New York with Foster Garvey PC. There, Ms. Hughes serves as Chair of the Business Group, the Sports & Entertainment practice and the Food & Beverage practice. Her sports & entertainment clients include athletes, recording artists, actors, television personalities, writers, producers, journalists, broadcasters, photographers, chefs, talent agents and managers. Ms. Hughes’ counsel includes brand and intellectual property protection, licensing, services arrangements, rights acquisition and disposition, entrepreneurship and investment. She is a multi-year Chambers-rated attorney as a “Leading Individual in Media, Entertainment: Film & Television” in New York and is annually featured on the New York Super Lawyers list.

Aaron J. Hurley

Professor Hurley is a compliance professional for US Bank Wealth Management and Security Services. Prior to this role, he administered fiduciary accounts with the national practice group for two of the five largest banks in the United State.

Margaret L. Hutchinson

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.

Laura Jacobus

Professor Jacobus currently serves as an ethics and compliance consultant to various high tech and other industry clients. Laura has held both legal and strategic business operations leadership roles at global high tech companies, including Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. She approaches compliance and ethics with a broad view and an emphasis on cross-functional ownership and implementation. Laura is an attorney licensed to practice in California with a Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Arts in English, both from Santa Clara University.

Kenneth Joel

Professor Joel teaches Appellate Advocacy at Kline School of Law. He currently serves as a Deputy General Counsel in Governor Shapiro's Office of General Counsel and also previously served as a Deputy General Counsel to Governor Tom Wolf for almost five years. Between his stints at OGC, Professor Joel served as a commissioned Judge in Philadelphia where he presided over criminal matters. Professor Joel also has served as Chief Deputy Attorney General (and Chief of Litigation) and Senior Deputy Attorney at Pennsylvania's Office of Attorney General and served as the Chief of Litigation at the Indiana Office of Attorney General. Professor Joel was in private practice for 17 years and litigated all types of substantive issues in trial and appellate courts.

William F. Johnson

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.

Earthen E. Johnson

Professor Johnson serves as Assistant General Counsel and Vice President at Macquarie Asset Management. She is responsible for supporting the Delaware Funds by Macquarie, a 150-mutual-fund complex comprising over $250B in assets under management. Professor Johnson also engaged in several volunteer activities, including board member for the Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project of Philadelphia, trustee on the University of Virginia Young Alumni Council, and board member for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Camden County.

Arnold C. Joseph

Professor Joseph served as general counsel to Golden Boy Promotions, LLC, a Los Angeles, California based professional boxing promoter owned by former professional boxer Oscar De la Hoya. Currently, he serves as counsel to Haymon Sports, LLC, which advises professional boxers, including Floyd Mayweather, Danny Garcia, Errol Spence and at least 100 others. He has negotiated and drafted agreements with television networks, Arenas, sponsors and boxers. He has also tried numerous boxing contract disputes to verdict.

Odia Kagan

Professor Kagan is a partner at Fox Rothschild, where she is the chair of GDPR Compliance and International Privacy. She was previously of counsel at Ballard Spahr where she advised clients on compliance with privacy and data security regulations as well as on privacy aspects of acquisition transactions, joint ventures, and engagements of third-party vendors. She closely follows legal developments and emerging technologies and analyzes their implications on clients’ businesses. Previously, she was an associate in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton, LLP where she focused her practice on international, corporate and securities law and technology and IP transactions. Professor Kagan was also 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.

Andrew Kasmen

Andrew S. Kasmen is a corporate and real estate attorney and entrepreneur. Mr. Kasmen serves as a strategic advisor, advocate and negotiator for his clients on all matters, and prioritizes being part of his client’s team, rather than just a consultant. In addition, Mr. Kasmen represents a number of the largest title insurance companies in the country in coverage and recovery matters. Prior to joining Obermayer, Mr. Kasmen established and operated a successful law practice concentrating in all aspects of commercial litigation, corporate and transactional matters, employment and real estate law.

Stephanie Katsigiannis Benecchi

Stephanie K. Benecchi is currently the principal of SKB Law LLC, where she focuses on litigation and counseling clients in highly regulated industries. She is currently working on a medical device personal injury MDL on an of counsel basis with Berger Montage, where she served as Senior Counsel for one year prior to starting her solo practice in May 2024. Ms. Benecchi is a member of the Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility committee for the Pennsylvania Bar Association. She is licensed in NJ, NY, and PA; having begun her career as an associate at a larger NYC firm before moving to a mid-sized regional firm in its Philadelphia, PA and Cherry Hill, NJ offices, where she made partner in 2019.

Lauren Katz Smith

Lauren Katz Smith is a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at the Kline School of Law. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Katz Smith served as a law clerk for the Honorable Joseph H. Rodriguez, United States District Judge. After her clerkship she practiced law in Philadelphia at Blank Rome LLP as a member of the litigator department and served as a Legal Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. Professor Katz Smith received her J.D. with honors from Drexel University Thomas Kline School of Law where she was the Executive Editor for Articles of the Inaugural issue of the Drexel Law Review.

The Honorable Mark A. Kearney

Judge Kearney is a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He received his J.D. from Villanova University, where he presently serves on the law school's Board of Consultors. Following law school, he served as a judicial law clerk for the Delaware Court of Chancery. In 2012, the United States District Court appointed Judge Kearney to the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the Judicial Council for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Alicia Brooks Kelly

Professor Kelly is a member of the full-time faculty of Widener University School of Law. She previously taught at Western State University College of Law and was a visiting professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She practiced family law at Berryhill Cage & North and with Feder, Morris Tamblyn & Goldstein, both firms in Denver, Colo. She is the co-author of the forthcoming book, "Property Law: A Context and Practice Casebook."

James Curran Kelly

"Jamie" is a Senior Vice President Wells Fargo Bank in the Wealth & Investment Management Division. Previously, Jamie worked with PNC Wealth and West Capital Management, where he developed, delivered, and implemented tax, estate, financial, and business succession plans for high net worth families. Prior to that, he practiced law in Miami, Florida drafting estate planning and business succession plans for high net worth families. Jamie is on the Board of Directors for the Philadelphia Estate Planning Council, and a member of the Philadelphia Exit Planning Exchange. Jamie and his wife, Susan, reside in Wayne, Pennsylvania with their two sons and dog

Thomas A. Kennedy

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.

Brian Kent

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.

Jenny Kim

Jenny Kim is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Professor Kim was the inaugural Clinical Fellow with Duke University School of Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic. Before entering academia, she was an impact litigator with the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights. She also worked at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, Church World Service, and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. Professor Kim received a BA in Hispanic Studies from Columbia College, Columbia University, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.

Debra Klebanoff

Richard Kolb

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.

Donald R. Korobkin

Professor Korobkin is an experienced commercial and bankruptcy practitioner who has published numerous law review articles on the topics. Previously, he taught Contracts, Secured Transactions, Sales and Bankruptcy Law at Rutgers-Camden Law School. He also served as a professor of law at Western New England College School of Law.

Lawrence S. Krasner

Lawrence S. Krasner is District Attorney for Philadelphia. A former criminal defense lawyer, specializing in civil rights, he brings more than 30 years of legal experience to the classroom. Before he was elected District Attorney, Krasner served of-counsel at Greenblatt, Pierce, Funt, and Flores, LLC.

Ron Krauss

Professor Krauss is Assistant Federal Public Defender, Appeals in the Office of the Federal Defender - Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Leonid Kravets

Professor Leonid Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP focusing on patent prosecution and intellectual property transactional law, including patent applications and responses to the United States Patent and Trademark Office in wide range of technology areas, including software, gaming, e-commerce, imaging, communications,networking, consumer electronics, and computer architecture. Prior to joining Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel, Professor Kravets was a patent consultant identifying, evaluating and prosecuting technological patent portfolios. He is also a former patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and frequent contributor to TechCrunch, on the topics property and patent law. He has been quoted in Time, Forbes and the Huffington Post on patent related topics.

Cheryl A. Kreisher

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.

Jesse Krohn

Jesse Krohn is an Assistant General Counsel in the Office of General Counsel at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. At Arcadia, Jesse handles a broad portfolio of legal issues, including civil rights compliance, contract negotiation and management, and University policy management. Jesse previously served as an Associate Director in Drexel University's Office of Equality and Diversity, where she acted as Deputy Title IX and EEO Coordinator and oversaw campus-wide initiatives to prevent and respond to bias incidents, discrimination, harassment, and sexual misconduct. Prior to her time at Drexel, Jesse worked in civil rights advocacy, most notably to advance the rights of individuals affected by sexual and relationship violence.

Elizabeth Kukura

Elizabeth Kukura is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Kline School of Law. Previously, she was a Freedman Fellow at Temple University Beasley School of Law and an associate at Bryan Cave LLP in New York, where she was a member of the commercial litigation group and focused on employment and securities matters. She also served as Legal Fellow at If/When/How (formerly Law Students for Reproductive Justice). Her research focuses on health and family law, with a particular interest in reproductive health and the law and politics of childbirth. Her scholarship has appeared in the Nebraska Law Review, the Penn State Law Review, the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, and is forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal and the University of Baltimore Law Review.

Darshan Kulkarni

Dr. Darshan Kulkarni is the Principal Attorney at the Kulkarni Law Firm, focusing on compliance for FDA-regulated companies, including drugs, devices, biopharma, pharmacies, and service providers like clinical research organizations and advertising agencies. With a PharmD and JD, he advises on clinical research, promotional compliance, privacy, manufacturing, and pharmacy matters, often during mergers or acquisitions. He hosts the DarshanTalks podcast, serves on advisory boards like the Emily Whitehead Foundation, and contributes to numerous book chapters on life science topics. Dr. Kulkarni also teaches Food and Drug Law at Drexel University and develops software solutions, including Ceres and Minos, to address compliance challenges.

Rachel E. Kuperinsky

Professor Kuperinsky is the Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance at the University of Pennsylvania where she oversees the NCAA compliance program for 33 Division I athletic programs. In her role, she works with over 1,000 student-athletes, coaches, and staff to ensure rules compliance for all NCAA, Ivy League, and institutional rules. Kuperinsky is a 2013 graduate of Tulane University School of Law where she served as the Editor in Chief of The Sports Lawyers Journal, Volume 20 and received her certificate in Sports Law.

Varghese Kurian

Varghese Kurian is assistant counsel at the Office of State Inspector General. He was a prosecutor at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. Varghese also practiced criminal defense for five years.

Alaina J. Lakawicz

Alaina J. Lakawicz is Counsel at BakerHostetler, practicing in the firm's IP Group. Her practice spans patent and commercial litigation in federal courts and before administrative agencies, including appeals to the Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court. Alaina has led strategy for major competitor litigation and represented clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to emerging technology companies. Before law school, Alaina worked for the U.S. Navy in the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program, where she helped advance cutting-edge technologies for defense applications. She received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (highest honors) from Rutgers University. Alaina is a registered patent attorney with the USPTO and serves as the Chapter Leader for the ChIPs Network.

Louis Lappen

Professor Lappen is the Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and leads an office of 130 attorneys. He oversees the prosecution of criminal cases brought by the federal government; the prosecution and defense of civil cases in which the United States is a party; and the collection of debts owed the federal government which are administratively uncollectible. Previously, he was First Assistant U.S. Attorney.

Nancy B.G. Lassen

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.

Jason P. Lawn

Hailing from Philadelphia, Jason P. Lawn attended Temple University for both undergraduate and law studies. Following his education, Jason amassed seven years of invaluable experience within a contracts group at a clinical research organization based in King of Prussia, PA. Subsequently, he contributed thirteen dedicated years at Accenture, where he assumed leadership of a procurement contracting team and led an in-house life sciences regulatory team. Presently, Jason holds the esteemed position of Senior Director at Kyowa Kirin, North America, where he exercises his expertise in overseeing the contracts group. Jason resides in Doylestown, PA, with his wife, three children, as well as a dog and two cats.

Gina Leahey

Gina Leahey is a commercial real estate finance attorney based in Philadelphia. She is the co-creator and co-host of Minimum Competence, a daily legal news podcast and a former contributor to Crunched Credit, a blog on the finance industry.

Andrew Leahey

Andrew Leahey is a tax and technology attorney from New Jersey. He is a weekly columnist for Bloomberg Tax, the co-creator of the Minimum Competence podcast, and owner of the esq.social Mastodon instance for legal professionals. Andrew resides in New Jersey with his wife and fellow adjunct professor Gina Leahey, daughter Abigail, four dogs, two birds, and a cat.

Terence Leckman

T. Matthew Leckman

Professor Leckman is a partner at Pogust Braslow & Millrood, where he focuses on mass torts and complex pharmaceutical litigation. Leckman played a lead role in the firm’s antidepressant suicide injury and hormone therapy cases, which have won multi-million dollar awards from juries. He litigates the firm’s cases in federal courts across the country and locally in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas’ Mass Tort Program. Leckman has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star in 2010-2012 and was selected as a member of the National Trial Lawyers Association’s Top 40 Under 40. Leckman is also one of the coaches of the Mock Trial Team, which won three tournaments in two years.

Makenzie Leh

Makenzie is an Adjunct Professor at Drexel School of Law and works full-time as a Litigation Associate at Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney. Makenzie graduated from Drexel School of Law in 2023 and served as the Moot Court Board's treasurer and the Lead Research Editor on Law Review. Makenzie received the Order of the Barristers award at graduation. She also served as a Student Bar Association Mentor.

Jerry Lehocky

Jerry M. Lehocky is a partner at Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano and has been a litigator of workers' compensation and Social Security since being admitted to practice in 1985. Mr. Lehocky continues to serve on the Board of Governors of The Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.

Bryan Lentz

Professor Lentz is a trial lawyer at Bochetto & Lentz focusing on employment law, non-compete, products liability, and catastrophic injury. Lentz represented the 161st Legislative District in the Pennsylvania General Assembly for two terms and then served as Chief of the Philadelphia Regional Gun Violence Task Force before returning to private practice.

Jacqueline Lesser

Jacqueline Lesser is an intellectual property attorney who has worked both in-house at a major corporation, and at top U.S. and international law firms. She has represented trademark and copyright clients for more than 25 years, protecting and defending clients in the U.S. and internationally. Her clients include a wide array of companies in the consumer products, apparel, food and beverage, entertainment, pharmaceutical, media, and technical industries.

Gary H. Levin

Gary Levin has been a patent litigator and counselor at BakerHostetler LLP and its predecessor Woodcock Washburn since 1985. He has extensive experience in all aspects of patent litigation, including pre-trial, trial, and appellate work.

Bruce A. Levine

Bruce A. Levine has over 30 years of experience in academia and the fields of law, management consulting, start-up management, and economic and workforce development. He has been associated with some of the leading firms and organizations in their respective industries: Skadden Arps in law; Deloitte and Booz Allen in management consulting; and Fantus in economic development consulting and site selection. Throughout his consulting career and tenure as c-level executive in two start-ups, Mr. Levine’s focus has been on strategic planning and strategy implementation. Currently, he is Associate Clinical Professor and Director of the Education Policy and Global and International Education Program in the School of Education, Drexel University, and is the Director of Drexel’s Washington, D.C. Center.

Lisa Evans Lewis

Lisa Evans Lewis is an Attorney and Training Supervisor with the Camden, New Jersey Office of the Federal Public Defender where she represents indigent persons charged with federal criminal offenses. In her practice, Ms. Lewis handles complex federal criminal matters at trial in the U.S. District Court as well as appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court. As a Training Supervisor, Ms. Lewis conducts training for the New Jersey Federal Criminal Justice Act (CJA) Panel and the Federal Public Defender Office. Ms. Lewis began her legal career as an Attorney with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. In addition to practicing law, Ms. Lewis serves on the board of several area nonprofit organizations.

Brian Libes

Professor Brian P. Libes is a 2017 graduate, cum laude, of Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. Brian currently works as a Senior Manager in the M&A tax practice at KPMG LLP in the firm's Philadelphia office. At KPMG, Brian focuses on providing various US M&A and international tax consulting services, including advising on issues arising in connection with cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations, restructurings, and divestitures. Brian’s responsibilities include tax structuring, tax modeling, tax due diligence, and legal entity rationalization services, in addition to Section 382, stock basis, and earnings and profits analyses.

Jane Massey Licata

Professor Licata posesses a strong technical background in biology and biochemistry having received her Ph.D. in 1978. A practicing attorney since 1984, Dr. Licata has extensive experience in biotechnology patent prosecution practice and FDA regulatory compliance and approvals.

Laurel W. Lichty

Professor Lichty specializes in regulatory compliance management, government contract compliance, global anti-corruption programs, FCPA compliance and anti money-laundering investigations. She currently serves in the US Federal Government Markets Division of Motorola Solutions Inc. She previously served as Vice President of Compliance Services in a legal processing outsourcing firm where her clients were Fortune 50-500 companies in highly regulated industries including: financial services, pharmaceutical and medical devices, insurance, and technology and telecommunication. Prof Lichty’s experience incorporates global legal issues and international compliance, and includes work with the World Bank and the United Nations. She is a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and active in the ACC National Capital Region Chapter.

Jeffrey Marc Lindy

Professor Lindy is a well accomplished criminal defense attorney and complex commercial litigator. His firm represents companies and individuals under investigation for, or charged with, white collar crimes and in related civil and administrative litigation. Professor Lindy formerly served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where he prosecuted federal crimes including mail fraud, money laundering, tax evasion and narcotics trafficking. Prior to working in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he served as a prosecutor in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in New York.

Francesca Liquori

Professor Liquori is an Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey. She previously served as a Trial Attorney with the Organized Crime and Gang Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, and as an Assistant District Attorney at the New York County District Attorney's Office. Professor Liquori also worked as Program Counsel for the National Association of Attorneys General, where she organized and conducted skills-based litigation trainings.

Perry Liss

After graduating from Drexel Law in 2009, I began a solo-practice in Philadelphia. I handled mostly small claims cases, becoming the top tenants' rights attorney in the city. I built my practice into a 7 lawyer firm focusing mostly on real estate related civil litigation. During this time I was named a PA SuperLawyer Rising Star 7 times. Addiction derailed my career in 2019, but thankfully I got myself into rehab. Following rehab, I sold my firm to my minority partner and enrolled in a Masters program for the studies and counseling of co-occurring disorders. I currently have a 4.0 and will graduate in Dec, 2021 at which time I plan to become the premier addiction/mental health counselor for the Philadelphia legal community. Aside from law, I've also hosted sports radio shows on ESPN & WIP.

Richard A. Lloret

Professor Lloret has been a U.S. Attorney since 1991. Currently, he is the chief of the Health Care and Government Fraud Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Pennsylvania. There, Lloret supervises trial attorneys prosecuting health care, government and environmental fraud. He has previously taught trial advocacy at Rutgers School of Law - Camden and the Department of Justice, National Advocacy Center.

Richard A. Lloret

Professor Lloret is a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Previously, he worked in the United States’ Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania as Chief of Health Care and Government Fraud Section.

Kelly Loughery

Ms. Loughery has twenty years of corporate law experience gained in law firms and in house settings. She spent 11 years leading a legal team at Motorola Solutions responsible for nearly a billion dollars of business each year an has also held Compliance Counsel and Associate roles at other organizations. Currently, she serves as Director of Commercial Legal for Spire Global, Inc. where she manages a team responsible for commercial, corporate and compliance issues including SEC reporting requirements for this global satellite company. She also serves as Assistant Corporate Secretary for the company and regularly interacts with the Board of Directors on commercial and compliance issues.

Justin T. Loughry

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.

Dara Lovitz

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.

Edmund B. Luce

After graduating from Penn Carey Law in 1992, Ned practiced law with the Philadelphia firm Kaufman, Coren & Ress, with a focus on commercial litigation. In 1998, Ned joined the faculty of Delaware Law School of Widener University, where he served as a Legal Writing Professor, Director of Graduate Programs, and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs. Since leaving Delaware Law School's full-time faculty in 2013, he has continued teaching as an adjunct, including courses at Penn Carey Law and Community College of Philadelphia, and has also worked as an independent educational consultant and bar exam tutor.

David B. MacGregor

Professor MacGregor is a principal at Post & Schell, LLC where he co-chairs the firm's energy and utilities practice group. He is a recognized expert in administrative law, energy law, public utility law and appellate advocacy having litigated numerous proceedings on behalf of various utility companies before state and federal regulatory commissions.

Nandu Machiraju

Professor Machiraju is a Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at the National Association of Broadcasters. Before joining NAB, he was a partner at Baker McKenzie LLP. He also spent several years at the Federal Trade Commission as a staff attorney, trial counsel, and advisor to the FTC Chair. He started his career at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP where he practiced at antitrust law in Washington, D.C. and Brussels.

Alexandria MacMaster

Alexandria MacMaster is a Partner at Laffey Bucci D’Andrea Reich & Ryan dedicated to representing survivors of sexual abuse, child abuse, human trafficking, and systemic civil rights violations. She is an experienced civil litigator and trial attorney with a history of successfully obtaining justice for victims of crimes against individuals, public entities, and private corporations that profit from exploitation. Previously, Alexandria was an Assistant District Attorney at the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office and served as their Captain of the Family Protection Unit.She has successfully brought dozens of jury trials to verdict. Alexandria frequently presents at Continuing Legal Education programs across the country to fellow attorneys about working with survivors.

Christopher Manchin

Professor Manchin has extensive experience in corporate law matters, including public and private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity investments, SEC compliance, Delaware law, and corporate governance. His current position is Associate General Counsel of Perseus Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Constellation Software, Inc. (TSX: CSU). Constellation Software is a publicly traded company that acquires, builds, and operates vertical market software companies. He provides counsel on a wide range of legal and business matters including mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, commercial contracts, corporate governance, intellectual property licensing, strategic growth planning, and regulatory compliance.

Rachel Mann

Rachel Mann is a former senior attorney at Disability Rights Pennsylvania (formerly Disabilities Law Project) where for 30 years she engaged in impact litigation, policy advocacy, individual legal assistance, and training for individuals with disabilities. Prior to that she practiced law at Evergreen Legal Services in Washington State and at the litigation firm of Mann, Ungar, and Spector in Philadelphia. She currently serves on the steering committee of the Imagine Different Coalition, a collaboration of state-wide advocates for systemic change to enable children with disabilities to live in families rather than institutions.

The Honorable Karen Spencer Marston

Judge Marston graduated from Davidson College in 1990 and received her law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1998. After law school, she practiced with Moore & Van Allen in Charlotte, NC. In 2000, she became a federal criminal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the WDNC, and in 2006, with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the EDPA. She prosecuted a broad array of criminal matters, including, violent narcotics trafficking, money laundering, white collar crime, health care fraud, immigration offenses and counterterrorism. In 2018, Judge Marston became the Chief of Narcotics and Organized Crime. She was nominated by President Trump to be a federal district court judge in September 2019. After her Senate confirmation, she received her commission on December 20, 2019.

Michele M. Mathes

Michele Mathes is the director of development at the Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly. Previously, she directed education, overseeing development of the organization’s long-term care ethics education program. She serves as adjunct faculty at Drexel University College of Medicine, the Institute of Catholic Bioethics of Saint Joseph’s University, and Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Her principal interests are the ethics of aging and of long term care, and conflict resolution.

Peter W. McCann

Professor McCann is the founder of e3, a legal technology consulting firm that enables law firms and in-house counsel to understand the risks and take advantage of the opportunities that technology provides. McCann has practiced eDiscovery related law since 2004 and is a member of PA Bar Association, the CIVIQ society and was a member of the influential Sedona Conference.

Maureen McCartney

Maureen McCartney

Christopher McDemus

Professor McDemus is a highly experienced corporate transactional and securities attorney with over 19 years of global law firm and senior executive experience. He provides guidance to companies at all stages of their life cycle, from formation to exit, on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and spin-offs, venture capital and private equity transactions, debt financing transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, outsourcing transactions, commercialization and licensing of technology, commercial agreements and other general corporate matters.

Frances A. McElhill

Ms. McElhill has over 39 years of experience counselling regional and national nonprofit organizations, such as health care systems, universities, multi-state healthcare and social service providers, arts and cultural organizations, religious congregations, and private foundations, on governance, fiduciary duties, conflicts of interest, charitable solicitation and fundraising, grantmaking, and federal tax issues related to private inurement and private benefit, unrelated business income, political advocacy, ancillary corporate structures and joint ventures.

Michael McFarland

Mike McFarland is an attorney at the law firm Laffey, Bucci, D'Andrea, Reich & Ryan where he represents victims of crime and survivors of sexual abuse in civil litigation across the United States. He exclusively handles cases involving physical and sexual assaults, abuse and neglect, as well as bullying, hazing, and harassment cases in institutional settings such as schools, residential treatment facilities, hospitals, universities, sports organizations, daycare centers, and churches. Mike was formerly a prosecutor in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.

Kathleen McGoldrick

Kathleen McGoldrick is the Privacy and Compliance Counsel and Privacy Officer at NantHealth, Inc., a healthcare software company. Kathleen has over 16 years of legal experience, including 12 years specializing in data privacy, HIPAA, data protection, and regulatory compliance. Kathleen’s expertise includes Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial health plan requirements, and she is experienced in privacy incident management, risk assessment activities, and privacy-by-design principles. Kathleen is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) and a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She is currently serving as a board member on IAPP’s CIPM Examination Development Board.

Julie A. McGrain

Professor McGrain is a Assistant Federal Public Defender with the Federal Public Defender for the District of New Jersey. She earned her J.D. with honors from the University at Buffalo School of Law in 1997 and been with the Federal Public Defender’s Office since April 1998. She regularly lectures on issues in federal sentencing and appeals for the Criminal Justice Act Panel in the District of New Jersey. Her prior teaching experience includes undergraduate criminal law courses at DeSales University and Immaculata University.

Patricia A. McKinney

I was a public defender at the Defender Association of Philadelphia from the time I graduated in 1993 until 2003. As an Assistant Defender, I had the opportunity to try every possible type of criminal case, including several capital homicides. From 2003 through 2014 I was a partner at the firm of McKinney and George, trying primarily criminal cases in both state and federal court, including capital homicides. Before joining the Philadelphia District Attorney's office in 2018, I was also on the Board of the Defender Association and a CASA volunteer. I am now Senior Advisor for Training, working with an amazing team of Assistant District Attorneys in one of the nation's most exciting Prosecutor's offices.

Elizabeth K. McManus

Professor McManus has extensive litigation experience and is currently a law clerk for The Honorable Renee Marie Bumb, United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, where she researches issues for both civil and criminal cases. She has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she was also the director of professional development.

Brian James McMonagle

Mr. McMonagle served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Homicide and Rape Units of the Philadelphia District Office from 1984-1999. He is a partner at the firm of McMonagle Perri McHugh Mischak & Davis. He has been inducted into the American College of Trial Attorney's and the American Board of Criminal Attorney's and Best Lawyers in America. He presently serves as Eastern District of Pennsylvania's Vice President of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Lawyers. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bars.

Bruce Merenstein

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.

Melanie A. Miller

Melanie began as a commercial litigator and now concentrates her practice in all aspects of complex commercial, general, and intellectual property litigation. Melanie has over 25 years of experience litigating complex commercial and intellectual property cases, with a recent focus on enforcing trademark rights, or responding to threats of infringement, in federal courts across the country and before the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Melanie regularly assists clients with trademark and copyright matters, including launching advertising campaigns; advising on branding strategies; managing portfolios; policing trademarks and copyrights; counseling on domain name disputes; guiding licensing arrangements; and proposing solutions to intellectual property and liability issues.

Deborah M. Minkoff

Deborah Minkoff practiced at Cozen O'Connor her entire career and served as Vice Chair of the Global Insurance Department. Deborah and her team litigation third-party coverage disputes on a national level, and resolution of reinsurance disputes.

Aron Minkoff

Aron is a personal injury attorney at Baldnate & Rubenstein, with offices in Philadelphia, PA and Haddonfield, NJ. Aron represents clients who have been injured in a wide range of litigation. His expertise includes an emphasis on medical malpractice, premises liability, motor vehicle accidents, and dram shop litigation. Prior to being an attorney, Aron earned his JD from the Drexel University Kline School of Law, class of 2019, where he was a member of both the Moot Court team and Law Review and now coaches the same team he competed on for the Moot Court program.

Hannah Molitoris

Hannah Molitoris is currently a trial attorney at Morgan & Morgan. Prior to joining Morgan & Morgan, she worked as a public defender in Philadelphia. Professor Molitoris graduated cum laude from Susquehanna University in 2012 with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Communications. She was a member of the Order of Omega Leadership Honor Society, Lambda Pi Eta Political Science Honor Society, and received Departmental Honors in Political Science. In 2016, Professor Molitoris received her Juris Doctor from the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University. During law school, she was a member of the Student Bar Association, mock trial team, moot court team, and participated in the criminal law clinic. She was recognized by SuperLawyers as a 2022 Rising Star.

Jeffrey S. Moller

Mr. Moller served as an officer in the US Coast Guard both at sea and ashore, specializing in marine safety. He is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Blank Rome LLP, which he joined in 1996. He was previously an associate and partner with Clark Ladner Fortenbaugh and Young of Philadelphia. His practice has focused upon maritime litigation, primarily in the federal courts, dealing with all manner of casualties, contractual and cargo disputes, enforcement of maritime liens, and defense of alleged regulatory violations. He has been a proctor member of the Maritime Law Association of the US since 1990, is a past chair of the MLA's committee on Regulation of Vessels, and currently serves on its Board of Directors.

Carlos S. Montoya

Carlos S. Montoya practices law at Cooper, LLC, based in Philadelphia. Carlos's practice includes serving as outside general counsel to clients in the sports, entertainment and technology industries, and advising start-up and early stage companies on corporate, commercial and employment matters. He also represents corporate and individual clients in litigation in state and federal court. Prior to joining Cooper, LLC, Carlos was Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, the entity that operates the Philadelphia 76ers, the New Jersey Devils, the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, Dignitas eSports, the Sixers Innovation Lab, and the Sixers Youth Foundation, among other properties. Previously, he was Assistant General Counsel at Aramark Corporation, where he held various corporate counsel and compliance positions, including serving as lead counsel for Aramark’s business dining division and supply chain group, and managing an enterprise-wide compliance team. Prior to Aramark, Carlos practiced law at Morgan Lewis and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. In between firms, Carlos clerked for Judge Gene E.K. Pratter, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Carlos graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Virginia. Carlos speaks and writes on topics related to the sports, entertainment and tech industries. He lives in the East Falls section of Philadelphia, PA with his wife, son and black Lab.

Jody Mooradian

Professor Mooradian has been a member of the athletics department staff at Boston College since 2003. In her position, she administers the sports of women's basketball, field hockey, volleyball, cross country, track and field, lacrosse, softball, and rowing. Mooradian oversees the areas of Student Athlete Development, Sports Medicine and Strength and Conditioning as well as supervising other internal functions of the Department and working with various groups on campus.

The Honorable Steven A. Morley

Professor Morley served as an Immigration Judge for nearly twelve years before retiring in 2022. He is currently Of Counsel to the immigration law firm of Landau, Hess, Simon, Choi & Doebley. Before serving on the bench, Judge Morley was in private practice in Philadelphia where he argued before the US Supreme Court, US Courts of Appeal in different circuits and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He served as chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association as well as Chair of Philadelphia Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Prior to entering private practice, Judge Morley was a public defender at the Defender Association of Philadelphia in both the state and federal court divisions.

Adrienne R. Moss

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.

Danie Moss-Velasco

Samuel Mukiibi

Samuel Mukiibi is an attorney at Grant & Eisenhofer PA, where he focuses on civil rights litigation. Prior to joining G&E, Prof. Mukiibi worked as an associate attorney at the Philadelphia office of a regional law firm practicing various product, commercial, and premises liability litigation matters.

Catherine Muldoon

Katherine Muns

Professor Muns' represents clients at preliminary hearings, motions hearings, misdemeanor and felony trials as an attorney for the Defender Association of Philadelphia. Prior to working at the Defender Association she clerked for Deputy Magistrate Judge Erlich in the Alaska State Court System.

Katherine Muns

Michael Murphy

Professor Michael Murphy is general legal counsel and content strategist at BrainDo. Previously, he was a member of the commercial litigation practice group at Blank Rome, providing legal counsel to clients in a wide range of issues arising in complex, commercial litigation and dispute resolution. Professor Murphy was also heavily involved in Blank Rome’s internal electronic discovery policy. Prior to joining Blank Rome, Professor Murphy served as a staff attorney for Justice Sandra Schultz Newman of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Shawn Nolan

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.

Todd Nothstein

Todd Nothstein is the staff attorney at Philadelphia VIP, responsible for family law issues. He joined VIP near the end of 2017, and his role entails recruiting, training, and supporting volunteer attorneys taking pro bono custody, support, adoption, divorce, and domestic abuse cases for Philadelphia VIP. Before joining VIP, Nothstein served as a clerk to the Hon. Frederica Massiah-Jackson in the Major Jury Trial Program of the civil division in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and he was a frequent VIP volunteer.

Robert W. O'Donnell

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.

David Oldham

Lisa Sabatino Oriold

Lisa Sabatino Oriold received her B.A. in English and a minor in Business Administration from Penn State University and her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law where she served on the executive board of the Villanova Law Review. She began her legal career as a Law Clerk in the Chester County Court of Common Pleas and then the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She then went on to work in private practice for several firms, including Pelino & Lentz and Rawle & Henderson. She is an experienced attorney, knowledgeable in legal research and legal writing as well as civil and commercial litigation. She has been teaching practical writing classes at Villanova Law since 2009.

Daniel Orr

Dan Orr is Senior Counsel in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s regulatory practice group. He has over 20 years’ experience advising life science clients before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and in related litigation and transactions. While a regulatory counsel in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Dan developed wide-ranging, national policies for drugs and biologics and solved regulatory problems in a portfolio of products with combined annual sales of over $37 billion. He serves on the Food and Drug Law Journal Editorial Board, and has taught previously at the FDA and for the Food and Drug Law Institute.

Tiffany L. Palmer

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.

Harsinie Panditaratne

Harsinie is the founding member of HP Law. Harsinie focuses her Workers' Compensation practice on representing the self-insured and captive Employers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Harsinie's representative clients are in the construction, manufacturing, distribution, and temporary staffing industries. She has successfully litigated Claim, Review, Modification, Suspension, and Termination Petitions before Workers’ Compensation Judges, the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, and the Commonwealth Court. She recently defended an Employer against an ultimately dismissed Supreme Court appeal and successfully obtained a Section 20 Settlement while maintaining her client’s Section 40 lien rights.

David N. Pardys

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.

Shabrei Parker

Shabrei Parker is an attorney at Mincey Fitzpatrick Ross, LLC, helping people with family Law issues. In addition to addressing family law legal needs, she also assists clients with estate & trust litigation, estate planning & probate and civil litigation (plaintiff) issues.

Kiran Patel

Kiran is a Senior IP Counsel at Philips in the General Licensing group primarily focusing on licensing and assertion work and patent prosecution. He was previously an Associate in a patent group at a law firm in New York and before then a law firm in Washington, D.C.

Michelle Payne

Professor Payne is an attorney for the Law Office of Benjamin J. Hinerfeld. She has an extensive background in children’s rights and family law and represented hundreds of children while serving as an Assistant Defender in the Child Advocacy Unit of the Defender Association of Philadelphia. She also was an attorney for Delaware County Women Against Rape, Crime Victims Law Project and is a member of the Nicholas A. Cipriani Family Law Inn of Court.

Michelle Anne Paznokas

Michelle (Shelly) Paznokas is an associate attorney at Kline & Specter, where she focuses on complex medical malpractice litigation and catastrophic personal injury cases. She acts as the vice president of the Kline chapter of the American Inns of Court and actively engages in pro bono throughout various practice areas.

John Pease

Natalie Pedersen

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.

Natalie Pedersen

Natalie Pedersen is a tenured member of the faculty at Drexel’s LeBow College of Business, where she is a member of the Legal Studies Department and teaches business law, entrepreneurial law and employment law. Professor Pedersen focuses her scholarship on employment law, employment discrimination and implicit bias. Her most recent articles include “Is More Parental Leave Always Better?: An Analysis of Potential Employee Protections Offered Outside the FMLA,” appearing in Cleveland State Law Review, and “If Sitting is the New Smoking, What Does That Mean for Employers?,” which will be published in Lewis and Clark Law Review. She received the Academy of Legal Studies in Business Employment Law Teaching Award in 2017. She serves as vice president of the Employment Law Section of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and as secretary of the Mid-Atlantic Academy of Legal Studies in Business. Previously, Professor Pedersen practiced at Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia. She clerked for Judge Marjorie O. Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit after receiving her JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School.

Jacqueline B. Penrod

Ms. Penrod has more than twenty-five years experience across many sectors of the health care industry. Her experiences range from working at a research institute, physician practice, hospital, health maintenance organization, and at a major health care consulting firm. For the past fifteen years, Professor Penrod has practiced law in the health care field, focusing primarily in the areas of managed health care, behavioral managed health care, regulatory compliance and health information privacy. She practiced at Duane Morris, LLP, Reed Smith, LLP, and as Senior Counsel at AmeriHealth Caritas. She is currently the sole proprietor at J B Penrod Law, LLC. Ms. Penrod also works full time as an Associate Professor in Healthcare Administration at a local college.

Pakapon Phinyowattanachip

Pakapon ("Pak") Phinyowattanachip is an Associate in the Complex Litigation practice group at Reed Smith LLP. His practice focuses on the representation of educational institutions, both at the K-12 and higher education level. Pak routinely advises clients on First Amendment issues, FERPA compliance, privacy issues, student discipline, personnel matters as well as compliance with various civil rights laws, including Title IX, Title VI, Title II of the ADA, and Section 504. Pak also has experience handling employment matters involving issues arising under the ADA, FMLA, Title VII, the ADEA, and the FLSA. Prior to joining Reed Smith, Pak was a law clerk to the Honorable C. Clark Raley, a senior Circuit Court Judge in Maryland.

Michael Poulshock

Professor Poulshock specializes in developing rule-based decision support systems that automate legislation, regulations, and policy. He has created systems to automate U.S. tax law, Medicaid eligibility, Family and Medical Leave Act claims, Veterans disability benefits and state health exchanges, among others. He is a director at KPMG and previously was senior knowledge engineer for Droit Financial Technologies, where invented and developed automated compliance technologies for the financial industry. Previously, he was a policy automation specialist at the Exeter Group.

Adam Prince

Adam D. Prince is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Morgan Lewis. There, he advises clients on diverse business transactions, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and advising private equity funds and their portfolio companies. Adam serves as the co-chair for the firm’s cross-practice healthcare industry team. Adam’s clients represent diverse sectors including healthcare, media, technology, and others. Adam also advises clients on venture capital and emerging growth company investments and transactional matters; finance and restructuring; and general corporate governance. In law school, Adam served as an editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He holds a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics from Penn. Adam lives in Bryn Mawr with his wife and three children.

Janice Read

Professor Read is Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property & Science at Thomson Reuters, where she negotiates and drafts a broad range of complex commercial contracts such as confidentiality agreements, license agreements, services agreements, partnership agreements, and merger & acquisition agreements, among other arrangements.

Paul Regan

Paul L. Regan is Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law at the Widener University Delaware campus. Before joining the faculty at Widener, Professor Regan was associate at Fellheimer, Eichen & Goodman; Liebert, Short, Fitzpatrick & Lavin; and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Irene Reznik

Serving as the Corporate Counsel II at Lannett Company, Irene Reznik drafts, negotiates, and manages a variety of legal documents and commercial contracts, as well as assists General Counsel and outside counsel on a wide range of litigation matters.

Kimberly Richardson

Kimberly Richardson is Of Counsel at the law firm of Conn Maciel Carey in Washington, DC., where her practice focuses on employee health and safety law. She previously served as Senior Corporate Counsel at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Senior Counsel at DuPont, Employment and Labor Law Attorney at the Department of Commerce, and OSHA Counsel at the United States Postal Service. In 2008, The Network Journal named her one of the nation’s top 40 Under Forty African-Americans, and in 2012, she received the United States Postmaster General’s D.R.I.V.E Award (Delivering Results, Innovation, Value, and Efficiency).

The Honorable Sue L. Robinson

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.

Steven J. Rocci, Distinguished Practice Professor of Intellectual Property

Professor Rocci is a partner at Baker Hostetler where he focuses on electrical, mechanical and computer science litigation. 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.

Robert J. Romano

Professor Robert J. Romano's law practice focuses on sports law and sports & entertainment related issues. He is an experienced litigator and contract attorney who has negotiated employment contracts, public appearance, endorsement & marketing and sponsorship agreements for coaches, professional athletes, entertainers, broadcasters and front office personnel. His litigation experience stems from representing world-class athletes, US and International Coaches, NCAA student-athletes, and sports agents before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the Basketball Arbitration Tribunal and other alternative dispute tribunals.

Rayleen V. Romeo

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.

Gary Rosen

Steven Rothberg

Jeffrey Rudnick

Benjamin V. Sanchez

Professor Sanchez is a practicing real estate attorney and Commissioner of Ward 7 in Abington Township. He was previously an associate at Ballard Spahr LLP in the firm's Real Estate Department and was a member of the Eminent Domain, Real Estate Tax, and Zoning and Land Use Groups. Before joining Ballard, Professor Sanchez worked as a certified public accountant in the audit division of a major accounting firm.

The Honorable Juan R. Sanchez

The Honorable Juan R. Sanchez serves as a District Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. On the recommendation of U.S. Senators Rick Santorum and Arlen Specter, Judge Sanchez was nominated on the federal bench by President George W. Bush in 2003. Judge Sanchez previously served as a judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he presided over criminal, civil, and juvenile matters.

Jennifer Sang

Jennifer is a partner at Berney & Sang. She focuses her practice on education law and has represented hundreds of families in special education cases. Prior to joining Berney & Sang, Jennifer served as a fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA where she participated in constitutional litigation. In 2015, The Legal Intelligencer named Jennifer a Lawyer on the Fast Track. In 2023, Jennifer served as a Harvard Law School Wasserstein Fellow to advise and mentor students who are considering a career path in education law.

Nilam A. Sanghvi

Nilam is the Legal Director at the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that investigates cases of potential wrongful conviction. Previously, she was a clinical teaching fellow and supervising attorney at the Georgetown Law Appellate Litigation Program and a partner at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP. Nilam clerked for the Honorable William B. Shubb in the Eastern District of California and for the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro on the Third Circuit. Nilam serves on the boards of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and the Third Circuit Bar Association. In addition to teaching at Drexel, Nilam teaches the Pennsylvania Innocence Project clinics at Temple and Villanova and teaches appellate advocacy at Penn Law.

Shira Katz Scanlon

Professor Scanlon is a founding partner with Martine, Galemba & Katz Scanlon, P.A. in Voorhees, N.J., a firm that focuses on family law. She clerked for Judge Linda Feinberg of the Superior Court of New Jersey.

Lawrence J. Schempp

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.

Dina Schlossberg

Mark Schultz

Gregory G. Schwab

Gregory G. Schwab most recently served as the General Counsel of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Governor Wolf appointed him to this position effective October 19, 2019. In this position, Greg led the Governor’s Office of General Counsel (OGC), a public sector law firm of over 500 attorneys, and oversaw the provision of legal services to the Governor, his senior staff, and dozens of executive branch and independent agencies. Prior to this appointment, Greg served as “First” Deputy General Counsel with OGC and as Chief Counsel to the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Before joining the Commonwealth, Greg practiced in the litigation department of Saul Ewing LLP in that firm’s Philadelphia office. Greg currently serves as a Commissioner on the Delaware River Port Authority.

Karl Schwartz

For over three decades Karl Schwartz has defended individuals charged in serious and complex criminal matters. He specializes in death penalty and homicide defense, and has had success in trial, appellate, state post-conviction and federal habeas corpus proceedings. He was honored by the Pennsylvania Innocence Project in 2011 with the Hero of Justice Award for his "tenacious and skillful lawyering that brought about the exoneration" of an innocent man, who had been imprisoned for 28 years. He is a partner at Wiseman & Schwartz.

Stefanie Seldin

Stefanie Fleischer Seldin

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.

Jacqueline J. Shafer

​Professor Shafer's practice focuses on family law, elder law and estate planning and administration. She has extensive experience in Medicare & Medicaid planning and appeals; disability planning and Special Needs Trusts; family agreements for care. She currently serves as the vice-chair of the Elder Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and also a member of the planning committee of the Montgomery County Elder Law Section.

Immon Shafiei

Immon Shafiei focuses his practice at Ogletree Deakins on representing employers in labor and employment matters in a wide variety of issues, including litigation involving discrimination, wage and hour issues, retaliation, harassment, and ADA claims before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. He is involved in all areas of case management and phases of litigation, including drafting pleadings, responding to discovery, preparing motions, preparing witnesses for depositions and trial testimony, and defending his client’s interests during trial. 

Lori K. Shemtob

Professor Shemtob is a founding partner of Shemtob Law, P.C. where she concentrates her practice exclusively on divorce, which includes handling matters of equitable distribution, alimony, custody, child and spousal support, prenuptial agreements, property settlement agreement and other family law matters. She is an experienced litigator, having handled hundreds of divorce, custody, child and spousal support, and equitable distribution matters for Delaware Valley residents for over 20 years. Professor Shemtob is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, (AAML), a national honor bestowed on only 67 lawyers in Pennsylvania. In 2016, she was inducted as President of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the AAML. She is one of 14 lawyers in the State certified by the AAML as a family law arbitrator. She is also a family law mediator.

Natalie Shute

Natalie Shute currently serves in the Camden County Prosecutor's Office as Special Deputy Attorney General and Acting Assistant Prosecutor.

Henry Sias

Professor Henry co-founded the Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity, a non-profit legal aid organization known for its Expungement Project, which has provided free expungements for thousands of low-income Philadelphians. Henry has represented trans people pro bono in obtaining legal name changes and affirming health care.

Richard Silfen

Professor Silfen is a partner at Duane Morris, where he practices corporate law, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, as well as securities.

Diana A. Silva

Professor Silva is a partner with Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, where she concentrates her practice in environmental litigation, including statutory contribution and cost recovery actions, toxic tort claims, contractual disputes, and administrative enforcement actions. She also counsels clients on environmental regulatory compliance matters, as well as permitting related to land development issues. Professor Silva previously served as a teaching fellow for the course Writing Strategies for the Bar. As a law student, Professor Silva was a Dean’s Scholar for Civil Procedure and teaching assistant for the Academic Skills Program, and a member of the Drexel Law Review. She was awarded a Best Student Performance Award in Toxic Torts, the course she now co-teaches with Professor Neil S. Witkes.

Diana A. Silva

Diana Silva is a partner at Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, where she concentrates her practice in environmental litigation, including statutory contribution and cost recovery actions, toxic tort claims, contractual disputes, common law tort claims, administrative enforcement actions, and permit appeals. She also counsels clients on environmental regulatory compliance matters, and provides clients with guidance and assistance for land development-related permitting of residential, commercial, industrial, and large-scale infrastructure projects. Diana has helped clients obtain and comply with construction-related stormwater/erosion and sediment control permits, wetlands permits, endangered species, and dam safety/waterway encroachment permits.

Michael Silverman

Leigh M. Skipper

Leigh M. Skipper practices in the area of litigation. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Mr. Skipper served as the Chief Federal Defender for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. During his tenure, he oversaw one of the largest federal defender offices in the country and was responsible for the training, strategy and supervision of more than 65 attorneys as well as investigators, technology and administrative support staff in the trial, appellate and capital habeas units. He successfully defended hundreds of cases involving fraud, tax, corruption, drug and other offenses and tried approximately 35 federal jury trials. Mr. Skipper was responsible for the training, management and selection of the attorneys on the Criminal Justice Act Panel and was accountable for all operational matters, including budgetary and personnel decisions.

Mr. Skipper is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and chair of the Public Defender Committee. He is also an adjunct professor at Drexel University School of Law, teaching classes on sentencing and federal criminal law. He is a past president of the Barrister’s Association of Philadelphia and the National Association of Federal Defenders and has served as a past chairman of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Judicial Selection and Retention Committee.

Mr. Skipper is a 1986 graduate of Howard University School of Law and a graduate of the University of Connecticut.

Patty Skuster

Professor Skuster is Senior Policy Advisor at Ipas where she established and led organization-wide initiatives for internal human rights compliance, global partnerships with the legal sector, and standards-setting at global and regional human rights bodies.

Royce Smith

Judy Goldstein Smith

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.

Kenya J. Smith

Kenya J. H. Smith is an Associate Professor at the Southern University Law Center. He began his legal career with Adams and Reese LLP as a member of the firm’s transactions and corporate advisory services team. His scholarly interests include formation and taxation of business associations, constitutional law and legislation. He is enthusiastic about education and scholarship, and loves to share that enthusiasm with his students.

Mara Smith Kouba

Mara Smith Kouba is an attorney for Bristol-Myers Squibb Company where she supports the Regulatory Law department on matters related to brand commercialization in the cardiovascular space. Mara is an alumna of Drexel University’s Kline School of Law and also holds an MBA and an MHA from The University of Scranton. An established healthcare attorney, Mara serves as a Vice Chair of the American Health Law Association’s Life Sciences Practice Group and regularly speaks and publishes on health law issues impacting the life sciences industry.

Maya Sosnov

Professor Sosnov is a career law clerk for Judge Anita B. Brody of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She is also the Internship Program Director of the Supervision to Aid Reentry (“STAR”) Program (a.k.a. “Federal Reentry Court”), and she established the Federal Reentry Court Clinic. Professor Sosnov previously clerked for Chief Judge Theodore A. McKee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Shanin Specter

Shanin Specter is a trial lawyer and law professor. As a founding partner of Kline & Specter, he has obtained more than 200 verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million, including jury verdicts of $153 million against a major automaker and $109 million against a Pennsylvania power company. He is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, whose membership is limited to the top 100 plaintiffs’ attorneys in the United States. Beyond winning substantial monetary compensation for his clients, many of Specter’s cases have prompted changes that provide a societal benefit, including improvements to vehicle safety, nursing and hospital procedures, the safe operation of police cars, training for the use of CPR at public institutions, and inspections, and installation and maintenance of utility power lines. Specter is also deeply involved in American legal education, teaching tort and trial courses at UC Hastings College of the Law, Stanford Law School, Drexel University's Kline School of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law and Penn Carey Law School.

Debra Speyer

Debra G. Speyer

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.

Cerys St. John Richter

Professor St. John Richter is an attorney who has specialized in litigation of health law, medical malpractice, and insurance matters in private firm and corporate settings. For over a decade, Ms. St. John Richter has worked in law school administration, first as Director of the Office of Career Services and Chair of the DEI Committee at Temple University Beasley School of Law, and more recently, in strategic, operational, management, and DEIB capacities as Chief of Staff at Drexel University Kline School of Law. Professor St. John Richter also has significant board service and leadership experience, including her service as board President, Chair, and DEIB strategist for multiple non-profit organizations.

Carol B. Stack

Professor Carol B. Stack specializes in anthropology with a focus on urban and rural poverty, civic participation, advocacy and community leadership, youth, work, and schooling, family and child policy, migration, race, gender, ethnicity, social justice, public anthropology, and social science methodology. She has been a professor for more than 30 years having formerly served on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley for 17 years and on the faculty at Duke University for more than a decade. Professor Stack has received numerous academic fellowships and awards including a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant, and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.

Mark Stanisz

Mark Stanisz is assistant general counsel at PJM Interconnection, focusing on regional transmission planning, regulatory compliance, and employment law. He designs and teaches graduate-level financial regulation, aid/accreditation, and student rights courses in Kline's Master of Legal Studies program.

Lindsay Steussy

Professor Steussy is a research and instructional services librarian at the law school's 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.

Jordan Strauss

Professor Strauss was a Director for Incident Management at the White House National Security Council Staff, a Senior Legal Advisor and the Deputy Justice Attaché for Afghanistan, and the first Director of Preparedness and Response at the United States Department of Justice’s National Security Division – the most senior lawyer devoted to national security crisis and emergency issues. Professor Strauss focuses his practice on investigations, crisis management, and complex problem-solving for entities and individuals. He previously taught at American University’s Washington College of Law. He began his career as a law clerk to Judge Clarence C. Newcomer of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, then joined the United States Department of Justice through the Attorney General's Honors Program.

Jack Stucker

Professor Stucker is staff attorney at Regional Housing Legal Services where he supports an initiative to end chronic street homelessness in Philadelphia.

Joanna S. Suder

Joanna Suder is a Deputy Attorney General with the State of Delaware. She began her practice prosecuting individuals before their licensing boards before becoming General Counsel to the State's Division of Public Health, a role she has held for the last nine years. Professor Suder currently serves as the Head of the Delaware DOJ's Health Law Unit, serving as the lead attorney for the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services and overseeing seven attorneys and two paralegals. She was the lead health attorney in the state's COVID-19 response.

Rickeisha Suite

Rickeisha (“Keisha”) Suite is a two time alumna of Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. Upon graduating, she worked as an Assistant District Attorney at the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. Currently, she is the Assistant Director for Law Admissions and works part-time as an Immigration Attorney.

Joel Sweet

Joel Sweet is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prof. Sweet prosecutes civil cases involving health care, defense contract, and other government fraud, as well as criminally and civilly prosecutes cases involving consumer fraud and money laundering. He lectures regularly on the False Claims Act and consults regularly with federal and state bank examiners, the Federal Trade Commission, the CFPB, and state Attorneys General concerning payment systems fraud and consumer fraud. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Prof. Sweet practiced law at a large Philadelphia-based law firm, specializing in commercial litigation and class action litigation.

Elizabeth Tarloski

Elizabeth Tarloski is a staff attorney at Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania. In addition to prior experience with Philadelphia VIP and as a clinical professor, Professor Elizabeth Tarloski has served on the Supreme Court Special Committee on Best Practices for Veterans’ Dockets, worked with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Veterans’ Initiative Program, served as an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Fellow at Widener University School of Law’s Veterans Law Clinic, and worked with the Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity. She has a specific interest in trauma-informed interviewing and medical-legal partnerships.

Eric Tars

Eric Tars serves as the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty’s Senior Attorney, working on its human rights, civil rights, and children’s rights programs through trainings, litigation, and policy advocacy at the international, national, and local levels. Before coming to the Law Center, Eric was a Fellow with Global Rights’ U.S. Racial Discrimination Program and consulted with Columbia University Law School’s Human Rights Institute and the US Human Rights Network, where he currently serves as vice-chair of the Board. Eric graduated magna cum laude from Haverford College with a BA in Political Science and magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center with a JD, and as a Global Law Scholar.

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Steven Thorpe

Professor Thorpe is the head of access services and a research and instructional services librarian at the 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.

Lindsey Tice

Lindsey Tice teaches cybersecurity and data privacy law as a subject matter expert in Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law Master of Legal Studies Program. She is a proud graduate of Drexel's inaugural law class. She is certified as an IT professional in cybersecurity and CIPP/US certified as a data privacy professional. Prior to joining the faculty at Drexel, Lindsey worked as Fortune 10 in-house counsel, building out the Office of Privacy as Senior Counsel before being promoted to Assistant General Counsel as the global head attorney for IT and IP. She was the first attorney to serve on the company's IT leadership team, oversaw legal support for global IT procurement, created the company's first legal cyber incident response playbook and served as lead counsel for rebrand.

Robert Tomilson

Robert Tomilson is a chair of Clark Hill's Insurance & Reinsurance, advising insurers, reinsurers, brokers, and other intermediaries in transactions and regulatory investigations. He also leads the firm's AI & Emerging Technologies industry group.

Michael Trachtman

Tracy Tripp

Professor Tripp is an assistant defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia where she represents Philadelphia's underserved, indigent criminal defendants in Municipal and Common Please Court. She has worked in the City of Philadelphia's law department on a variety of cases as well as the Federal Community Defender Organization.

Tracy Tripp

Tracy Tripp was an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia, and supervised the Special Investigations Unit for much of her time there. SIU investigates and prosecutes all forms of municipal corruption, from police-involved violence to correctional abuses and embezzlement to DUIs and domestic violence. Prior to being a DA, she was a Public Defender, advocating for the indigent criminally accused and incarcerated in Philadelphia county. An alum, Tripp also co-oped and interned for Community Legal Services and the Federal Community Defender for the Easter District of PA while in law school.

Joel C. Trotter

Joel serves as Assistant General Counsel for GlaxoSmithKline where he practices pharmaceutical and FDA regulatory law. Joel's responsibilities include advising global and US-based senior management and other internal stakeholders on prescription drug marketing and sales, contract management and operations, trade strategy and eCommerce, channel operations, regulatory affairs, payer marketing, environmental health and safety, and manufacturing operations.

Jane W. Voegele

Professor Voegele has taught at Drexel since 2013 and previously taught legal methods at the Widener University School of Law for several years. She formerly served as a law clerk for Judge J. William Ditter, Jr. and for Judge Eduardo C. Robreno of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to clerking she was a labor and employment law associate at Dechert.

James Waldenberger

I am a trial lawyer in my twentieth year of practice. I am a partner at Kline & Specter and represent catastrophically injured individuals in various types of cases, including medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, products liability, premises liability, and medical devices. I have tried approximately twenty-five jury trials as lead counsel. I have obtained multiple six- and seven-figure jury verdicts in my clients' favor. I have tried cases throughout Pennsylvania, as well as in New Jersey and Massachusetts.

Marguerite Weese

As Chief Wealth Strategist at Wilmington Trust, Marguerite builds trusted relationships with clients and their teams of advisors to help design personalized wealth strategies that reflect each client’s goals, values, and legacy. With a goal of delivering thoughtful guidance for every stage of life, Marguerite is passionate about making wealth planning comprehensive, but also approachable. She is committed to helping clients feel more confident that the decisions they make today will create a lasting impact tomorrow. In her role, she oversees and leads a national team of wealth strategists and other professionals who specialize in trust and estate, tax, business succession, and philanthropic planning. Prior to her role as chief wealth strategist, Marguerite developed the firm’s family legacy offering.

Danielle M. Weiss

Danielle M. Weiss, Esquire is a Partner at Haines & Associates, where for more than a decade she has successfully represented individuals and small-business clients in high stakes trial matters. She is a life-long resident of the Philadelphia area. She earned a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania (2002), and a J.D. from the James E. Beasley School of Law, Temple University (2005). Danielle is also a proud alumna of The Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, PA. Danielle is active in the community, serving, among other positions and organizations, on the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and on the National Young Leadership Cabinet of the Jewish Federations of North America.

Julie A. Werner-Simon

Julie A. Werner-Simon ("JAWS") was a federal prosecutor for over a quarter-century, in Los Angeles and Alaska, and before that she held the job of an Assistant District Attorney specializing in sexual assault cases. During her federal service, she served the United States in positions which included: Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force and Senior Litigation Counsel of the White-Collar Crimes section.

Rashida T. West

Professor West is the associate director for Government and Public Interest Law at the law school. 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.

Rashida T. West

Professor West is the director for Pro Bono and Public Interest Programs at the law school. 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.

Mischa Wheat

Prior to joining the Kline School of Law, Mischa was an associate at Stradley Ronon, representing clients in complex litigation, bankruptcy matters, governmental investigations, and data breach responses. He advised clients on U.S. and international privacy law, data governance, financial and insurance regulations, and the use of artificial intelligence. Mischa received his JD from the Kline School of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude and served as an executive editor of Drexel Law Review.

Libby A. White

Libby White is an experienced law professor who taught at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law for many years and who has previously taught at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law as a Visiting Professor. She is a corporate attorney who practiced many years with Saul Ewing in its Business Department, specializing in general business and securities law. She has since operated as a consultant and contract attorney for a number of law firms, with a particular emphasis on health law and the training of associates in writing and contract law.

Charlotte Whitmore

Charlotte Whitmore

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.

Neal G. Wiley

Neal Wiley is an associate attorney at Alexander & Pelli, LLC. His practice focuses on estate planning, trust and estate administration, and Orphans' Court litigation. He writes on topics including legal history and trust and estate law.

Storm Wilkins

Storm Wilkins

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.

Terrell A. Williams

Professor Williams's journey includes serving in the U.S. Army to his work in the federal and nonprofit sectors. Terrell has a passion for civil rights and is a zealous advocate for equality and equity within our public and private sectors. Terrell currently works as a public defender and adjunct professor, who is committed to shaping the next generation of community leaders.

Reid S. Willis

I am Expert Counsel at The Dow Chemical Company. I started my career at Dow as a Sr. Research Chemist, right out of graduate school. I did mostly analytical chemical plant support work early in my career, and eventually became a trainee in Dow's Patent Department. Dow sent me to law school and upon graduation I became a patent attorney. I left Dow with my family to join GSK in 2004, and came back to Dow 6 years later shortly after the company acquired Rohm and Haas. I am married to Orna and have two daughters, Shiri and Nina. I enjoy playing duplicate bridge.

Mark C. Wilson

Professor Wilson is the founder and managing director of Harrison Kent Advisors, LLC, which provides college and athletic departments and their coaches with strategic and tactical advice on sports camp operations. Prior to founding Harrison Kent, Professor Wilson was the director of camps and clinics at Ohio State University. He has also been teaching Sports Law and Risk Management at Drexel University since 2009.

Justin B. Wineburgh

Professor Wineburgh has years of extensive experience counseling clients and litigating cases in the media and entertainment industry throughout the United States and abroad. As counsel at Cozen O'Connor, Professor Wineburgh represents film and television writers, distributors, production companies, websites and performing artists, as well as retailers, advertising and marketing agencies, managers, agents, athletes, and professional sports team owners and operators. He has represented clients at the Sundance, Cannes, Cinevegas, and Toronto International Film Festivals, as well as at the American Film Market and the Comic-Con International Convention. His experience also includes serving as production counsel to dozens of films and hundreds of television shows, and acting as outside general counsel to numerous entertainment and media ventures, negotiating and drafting complex agreements designed to support and advance his clients’ business objectives.

Neil Wise

Neil Witkes

Neil Witkes

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.

Thomas S. Wyatt

As a partner at Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel, Tom Wyatt leads the municipal infrastructure and services practice area. He represents local governments and municipal authorities with infrastructure-related matters, such as regulatory compliance, bulk sale, and services contract negotiations, and water and wastewater system purchases and sales. His prior experience with North America’s largest water and wastewater company, as well as his involvement in the purchases and sales of the water and sewer systems in numerous Pennsylvania counties gives him an industry-leading familiarity with the complexities of these transactions.

Meghan Wynkoop

Meghan Wynkoop is a Partner in the Labor & Employment Practice group in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania office of Margolis Edelstein. Her practice focuses on representing both public and private employers in all aspects of employment law, including discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge, retaliation, hostile work environment, and breach of contract claims. Meghan earned her law degree from the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University, where she won the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Appellate Advocacy. She also competed in two national moot court competitions, including the New York City Bar Association Competition sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Melanie E. Young

Melanie Young has been working at the Defender Association of Philadelphia as a staff attorney since graduating from the Kline School of Law in 2015. She has represented hundreds, if not thousands of clients, in all stages of criminal proceedings in Philadelphia. She feels passionately about the important work her office does helping the most indigent and vulnerable people. Melanie is very excited to return to Drexel as an adjunct professor and hopes to help inspire many future Defenders.

Rachel Zuraw