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Sarah M. Coyle
Adjunct Professor
Email: smc545@drexel.edu
Course(s): LAW 102: Law Lab
As Managing Attorney for Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity, Sarah directs the litigation project removing barriers created by contact with the carceral system, and has spearheaded pro bono projects. Previously, Sarah worked with Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania as an attorney to assist survivors of domestic and sexual violence. In law school, she had internships at the Women’s Law Project, Georgia Legal Services, Savannah Justice Law Center, and NJ Office of the Public Defender. Prior, Sarah was a juvenile case worker for youth experiencing the carceral system. Sarah received her JD from Savannah Law School and her BA from Rutgers.
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Desjeneé Davis
Adjunct Professor
Email: dd988@drexel.edu
Course(s): LAW T280: Introduction to Trials Skills
Desjeneé is a trial attorney for Philadelphia Law Department’s Code and Public Nuisance Litigation Unit representing the Departments of Licenses and Inspections, and of Public Health in affirmative and defensive civil matters. Desjeneé received the 2023 International Municipal Lawyer’s Association Young Lawyer Award. In addition, she is: Vice Chair of the Black Law Alumni Association of Kline (BLAAK), President-Elect of the National Bar Association Women Lawyers Division (Philadelphia Chapter), and serves as an Editorial Member of The Legal Intelligencer's Young Lawyer Editorial Board. Desjeneé dedicates time to coaching Mock Trial for Drexel’s BLSA and the Philadelphia Academy Charter High School. Desjeneé received her JD from Kline and her BA and BS from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania.
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Stephanie Dorenbosch
Adjunct Professor
Email: sad336@drexel.edu
Course(s): LAW T380: Housing Laws & Policy, LAW T380: Tenants’ Rights & Organizing
Stephanie Dorenbosch is the Assistant Director of the Andy and Gwen Stern Community Lawyering Clinic at the Kline School of Law. She was previously the Director of Tenant Advocacy at TURN, where she supervised legal and organizing staff and advocated for an eviction moratorium and other tenant protections during the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Dorenbosch has also worked at HELP:MLP and Justice at Work, where she represented clients in housing, employment, and immigration cases, supported community organizing, advocated for changes to local laws, and served on advisory councils and working groups. She received her JD from Harvard Law School.
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Jessa W. Feiler
Research and Faculty Services Librarian and Adjunct Professor
Email: jwf53@drexel.edu
Course(s): LAW 135: Foundations of Legal Research
Jessa Feiler is a Pennsylvania attorney and serves as the Research & Faculty Services Librarian at Drexel Kline School of Law, where she also teaches legal research as an adjunct professor. Prior to joining the Drexel community, Professor Feiler spent nearly 20 years as the managing rare books & manuscripts librarian for a major international book dealer. She received her JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her MSLIS here at Drexel and her BA from the University of Chicago.
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Rachel Germany
Assistant Professor of Law
Email: rg976@drexel.edu@drexel.edu
Course(s): LAW 201: Common Law, Law 280: Rights of the Accused, Law 301: Legal Reasoning, Law T380: History of Crime Control
Rachel Germany is an attorney and educator with a career focused on criminal law, education, and advocacy for youth. Before teaching undergraduate law at Kline, she taught criminal law at a specialized public high school in New York City. As an attorney, she worked at the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, assisting death-sentenced and juvenile life-without-parole clients in appealing their sentences in Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida. She also worked at Advocates for Children of NY, where she advocated for the rights of unhoused public school students.
Professor Germany holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, a J.D. from NYU School of Law, an M.A. from Columbia University, Teachers College, and an M.S. in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. She won Penn Criminology's 2024 Thesis Award for her thesis examining the impact of defense counsel on sentencing outcomes for indigent defendants in Kentucky and Georgia.
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Varghese M. Kurian
Adjunct Professor
Email: vmk46@drexel.edu
Course(s): LAW T380: Rules of Evidence
Varghese received his JD and LLM (Trial Advocacy) from Temple University Beasley School of Law. Varghese has been a prosecutor for most of his career, mainly at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office and the Office of Attorney General. Varghese practiced criminal defense for 5 years before returning to prosecution. Currently, Varghese works at the Office of Inspector General.
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Andrew J. Leahey
Adjunct Professor
Email: al538@drexel.edu
Course(s): LAW 102: Law Lab, LAW 110: American Legal Systems, LAW T380: Introduction to Tax Theory and Policy
Andrew Leahey is a tax and technology attorney and tax policy expert as well as a weekly columnist for Bloomberg Tax. He is a graduate of: the University of Pennsylvania where he majored in Political Science; Rutgers School of Law where he was awarded a JD; and, New York University School of Law where he attained a Master of Laws (LLM) in Taxation.
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Fran McCloskey
Adjunct Professor
Email: fm492@drexel.edu
Course(s): LAW T380: Police Stops/Know Your Rights
Judge McCloskey was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 2007 and has dedicated his legal career to criminal justice. He spent seven years in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office before entering private practice. In 2015 he joined the firm of McCullough, McLaughlin & Mincarelli, focusing on criminal defense and becoming a partner within 2 years. He was elected to the position of Judge, Municipal Court of Philadelphia in 2021 where he presides over both criminal and civil matters. He received his JD from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Nathan Orians
Adjunct Professor
Email: nno24@drexel.edu
Course(s): LAW 216: Regulating Families
Nathan Orians is an Assistant Public Defender in Delaware County, PA. He attended law school at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law and received his Master’s Degree from Smith School for Social Work. Orians has dedicated the majority of his professional career, both as a social worker and as lawyer, to justice. He focuses on amplifying the voices of marginalized communities. His hope in teaching the law is to help students appreciate that the law, when applied uniformly and correctly, is capable of doing great things within society.
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Nick Shalosky
Director of Bar Support and Adjunct Professor
Email: ns3464@drexel.edu
Course(s): LAW T280: Introduction to Trial Skills
Nick is the Director of Bar Support at Drexel's Kline School of Law. He teaches Advanced Legal Analysis and Bar Skills, and oversees programming to help students pass the bar exam. Before coming to Kline he worked for six years in commercial bar preparation, taught at the Charleston School of Law, practiced law in South Carolina, and served on the Charleston Constituent School Board, making him the state’s first openly gay elected official. He graduated from the Charleston School of Law and received his bachelor’s from the College of Charleston.
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Gwen R. Stern
Director of the Trial Advocacy Program and Professor of Law
Email: grs29@drexel.edu
Phone: 215.571.4774
Course(s): LAW T380: Rules of Evidence, LAW T380: Courtroom Advocacy
Gwen Roseman Stern is an accomplished trial lawyer, law professor, litigation communication expert, national legal education speaker, author, community leader and philanthropist. Ms. Stern has spent two decades at prominent Philadelphia law firms on both sides of the civil courtroom, representing health care institutions, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers and plaintiffs in catastrophic injury cases. As a plaintiff’s attorney, she litigated numerous product liability cases such as crane electrocution cases and malpractice cases involving birth injuries. With her vast amount of experience, Ms. Stern instructs lawyers and law students on case analysis, expert witness communications, deposition skills and courtroom advocacy.
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Lindsay Steussy
Research and Instructional Services Librarian and Adjunct Professor
Email: lhs27@drexel.edu
Phone: 215.571.4774
Course(s): LAW 135: Foundations of Legal Research
Lindsay received her law degree from Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she was a law library fellow and worked in the reference department. Before law school, she received a Master of Library Science degree from Indiana University-Bloomington (as well as a Master's degree in Medieval History), after which she worked at UC-Boulder. Lindsay teaches the Legal History seminar, Advanced Legal Research, Tax Law Legal Research, and Foreign & International Legal Research courses. She also teaches in the UGLaw and MLS programs.
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Daniel Wolman
Assistant Professor of Law
Email: dan.wolman@drexel.edu
Phone: 215.571.4704
Course(s): Law 110: American Legal Systems
Dan Wolman is an experienced educator who has enjoyed careers in legal practice and, more recently, in secondary school teaching. Before joining the law school, he taught high school history for ten years at a large public school outside Chicago, IL, including a Criminal & Civil Law course he helped design. Prior to becoming an educator, Dan practiced law as a litigation associate at Latham & Watkins, LLP, and at Steptoe & Johnson, LLP. He specialized in commercial and employment litigation, as well as a pro bono practice representing victims seeking orders of protection at Chicago’s Domestic Violence courthouse. Professor Wolman received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, a B.S. from Northwestern University, and a M.S.Ed. from Northwestern University.
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