

B.A. Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1979
J.D. Northeastern University School of Law, 1982
"I strive to produce lawyers who help the law work for ordinary people from all walks of life. In a democracy, that is of vital importance."
I have expertise in elder law, clinical teaching, assessment of student learning, equity and remedies, and foreign study.
I practiced law in Indiana before becoming a law professor in 1988. My legal practice included working as an associate in a small law firm in rural southern Indiana, where I litigated constitutional and employment discrimination cases and served a general practice clientele.
I also worked as a legal services attorney with the Legal Services Organization of Indiana. In 1988, I joined the faculty of Indiana University at Indianapolis, supervising students in the Civil Practice Clinic.
In 1993, I became the Clinic Director at the University of Dayton School of Law, a position I held until 2000. I joined the faculty at WMU-Cooley Law School in 2000 to teach in the Sixty Plus, Inc., Elderlaw Clinic, and taught in it for 17 years, 10 years as Executive Director. I now teach Contracts, Property, Multicultural Lawyering, and Equity & Remedies. I also served as an on-site director for WMU-Cooley's "down under" Study Abroad program for several years.
I have served as the chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Clinical Legal Education (1999), on the executive committees of that section and the Poverty Law Section of the AALS, as the newsletter editor of the AALS Section on Clinical Education, on the Board of Editors of the Clinical Law Review and have served as Vice President of the Legal Aid Society of Dayton Board of Directors.
I have written in the field of multicultural lawyering, first-year law teaching, teaching online, elder law, attorney-client counseling, housing law, and clinical teaching. I have presented papers at the UCLA/University of London International Clinical Scholarship Conference and the New York Clinical Theory Workshop, and have presented research in New Zealand and Australia. I also was the co-organizer of the conference, Teaching Multicultural Lawyering, held at WMU-Cooley Law School in March 2021.