Jennifer McKinney Cooper
Jennifer McKinney Cooper
Associate Director of Academic Success Program
Adjunct Professor
J.D., Seattle University School of Law, magna cum laude;
B.A., Louisiana State University
B.A., Louisiana State University
Phone: (619) 961-4285
E-mail: jmcooper@tjsl.edu
Jennifer McKinney Cooper joined Thomas Jefferson after five years of criminal defense practice in Washington State where she tried more than 20 jury trials both as a public defender and in private practice. She graduated magna cum laude from Seattle University School of Law, where she was Note & Comment Editor of the Seattle University Law Review and won a CALI Award for Legal Writing II. She is originally from LaPlace, Louisiana, and earned her B.A. in Theatre and English from Louisiana State University.
Presentations
How to Pimp Your TWEN: Engaging Students on Their Turf - Online, CALI Conference 2012, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA (June 21, 2012) (Available at http://conference.cali.org/2012/sessions/how-pimp-your-twen-engaging-students-their-turf-online)
Play It Again Sam: Reinforcing Practice to Achieve Perfection, 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort, Palm Springs, CA, (May 30, 2012) (Available at http://wiki.lwionline.org/index.php/LWI_Conference)
How to Pimp your TWEN: Engaging Your Students On Their Turf - Online, Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, "Technology In and Beyond the Classroom," North Carolina Central University School of Law, Raleigh-Durham, NC (March 3, 2012)
Invited Presenter, Developing a Law Student Study Behaviors Checklist: How are they really studying and what really works?, LSAC ASP Training Workshop, "Beyond IRAC: The Cognitive and Emotional Aspects of Law Study and Practice," University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, Memphis, TN (February 4, 2012)
How NOT To Get "Benchslapped": Making Professionalism in Legal Writing Real Through a Public Service Announcement Exercise (with Patricia S. Shepard), 2011 Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, John Marshall School of Law, Chicago, IL (September 17, 2011)
How NOT To Get "Benchslapped": Making Professionalism in Legal Writing Real Through a Public Service Announcement Exercise (with Patricia S. Shepard), 2011 Western Legal Writing Conference, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (August 27, 2011)
