Because the legal writing faculty at Thomas Jefferson includes teachers who have become expert in a number of fields through their practice, their teaching, and their scholarship, they are especially qualified to help students begin to construct a foundation for their own practice of law.
Linda Berger, who practiced First Amendment law and general civil litigation, writes about legal composition, legal rhetoric, metaphor theory, and media law; she is a founder and the current editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, published by West. Laura Berg, who has practiced in areas including complex corporate litigation and death penalty post-conviction relief, explores issues such as the use of narrative in capital jurisprudence in her research.
Ilene Durst, who has extensive litigation and immigration law experience, focuses her scholarship on language and narrative theory and their applications to advocacy, immigration, and literary representations of the legal culture. Linda Keller, who served as a Fellow at the University of Miami Center for the Study of Human Rights, publishes in the area of international human rights and criminal law.
Sandy Rierson, formerly a partner practicing intellectual property law with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, pursues scholarship in legal history and women's history, intellectual property, and civil procedure. Jeff Slattery draws on his years in the music business and his experience as a practitioner in art and entertainment law to study the protection of cultural property.
Ben Templin, whose law practice emphasized general corporate law for emerging technology companies, now focuses his research on corporate law. Claire Wright, formerly a partner at both the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie and the consulting firm of Ernst & Young, is an expert on World Trade Organization law and is pursuing scholarly interests in international trade, the WTO, U.S.-Mexico relations and human rights. Priscilla Vargas Wrosh has practice experience in the areas of corporate restructuring and securities fraud litigation.