Linda Kisabeth

Professor Kisabeth joined the WMU-Cooley Law School faculty as an adjunct professor in 1998 teaching Legal Methods, Law Practice, and Scholarly Writing. During this time she was also an adjunct professor at Lansing Community College. In 2008, she became a full-time faculty member teaching in WMU-Cooley’s Professional Exploration Program as well as Torts I, Torts II, and Equity & Remedies. Currently she is Chair of the Contracts Department and teaches Contracts I, Contracts I, and Sales. She is also Vice-chair of the Faculty Conference and Chair of the Admissions Committee and the Academic Policy and Curriculum Committee.

Prior to becoming a faculty member, she was employed as an Associate Attorney with Hubbard, Fox, Thomas, White & Bengtson, P.C. in Lansing, Michigan. She then served Associate General Counsel at Delta Dental Plan of Michigan, Inc. for almost 10 years. While a law student, she was on the Dean's List and the Honor Roll, won the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Student Award, and served as Editor-in-Chief of WMU-Cooley’s Journal of Practical & Clinical Law as well as Vice President of the Criminal Law Society. She also earned a certificate from the University of San Diego's Institute on International and Comparative Law while studying at Oxford University in England.

Professor Kisabeth is admitted to the State Bar of Michigan; and the Federal District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan. She is a long-standing member of the board of directors for WMU-Cooley’s Sixty Plus Elderlaw Clinic, a member of the American Bar Association, the Oakland County Bar Association, and serves as an Oakland County Bar Foundation Fellow. Professor Kisabeth is the immediate past Chair of the District I State Bar of Michigan Character & Fitness Committee. She is also an active member of the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan (WLAM) and serves as faculty advisor to WMU-Cooley's Organization of Women Law Students, a student chapter of WLAM.

Articles (Law Reviews and Law Journals)

• Linda Kisabeth, The Professional Exploration Program: An Alternative Law School Admission Process, 1 J. of Scholastic Inquiry: Educ. 9 (2013).
• Linda Kisabeth, Slayer Statutes and Elder Abuse: Good Intentions, Right Results? Does Michigan's Amended Slayer Statute Do Enough to Protect the Elderly?, 26 Quinnipiac Prob. L.J. 373 (2013).
• Linda Kisabeth, Vine v. City of Lansing Police Dep't: Adoptees and Wrongful Death Damages: The Legal Ties That Bind, 5 T.M. Cooley J. Prac. & Clinical L. 201 (2002).

Short Works

• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 77 Mich. B.J., Oct. 1998, at 1120.
• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 77 Mich. B.J., Sept. 1998, at 986.
• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 77 Mich. B.J., July 1998, at 734.
• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 77 Mich. B.J., June 1998 at 598.
• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 77 Mich. B.J., May 1998 at 472.
• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 77 Mich. B.J., Mar. 1998 at 336.
• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 77 Mich. B.J., Feb. 1998 at 220.
• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 77 Mich. B.J., Jan. 1998 at 104.
• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 76 Mich. B.J., Dec. 1997 at 1368.
• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 76 Mich. B.J., Nov. 1997 at 1240.
• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 76 Mich. B.J., Oct. 1997 at 1122.
• Linda K. Mullins, Note, Michigan Opinion Notes, 76 Mich. B.J., Sept. 1997 at 1006.

Presentations

• Linda Kisabeth, Presentation, The Professional Exploration Program: An Alternative Law School Admission Process (Hawaii University International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2012; Center for Scholastic Inquiry’s International Academic Research Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, April 2013)(Professor Kisabeth won the award for Best Presentation for Educational Track, Afternoon Session).