Welcome to our new authors
I am thrilled to announce that we have seven new authors joining the Appellate Advocacy Blog. With these new authors, we will be able to provide daily new content to the blog. As you can see from the introductions below, the new authors bring a wealth of diverse experience to the blog.
Lance Caughfield—Lance is a partner at Baker Moran Doggett Ma & Dobbs in Plano, Texas, where he has an appellate and trial practice in state and federal court. He is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, is board-certified in Civil Appellate law, and has coached moot court at SMU’s Dedman School of Law for over twenty years.
Jason Cohen—Jason is a Clinical Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. From 2005 – 2017, he taught at Rutgers Law, where he also served as the law school’s Director of Lawyering.
Kirsten K. Davis—Kirsten is a Professor of Law and the Interim Dean of Student Affairs at Stetson University College of Law. She is also the Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Legal Communication. In addition to her law degree, she holds a Ph.D. in Human Communication for the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.
Chris Edwards—Chris is a litigation attorney at Ward and Smith in Wilmington, North Carolina. He graduated from the Wake Forest School of Law, where he was a member of the moot court board. He clerked for the Honorable Louise W. Flanagan, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and the Honorable G. Steven Agee, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Allison Kort—Allison is the founding member of the Kort Law Firm in Kansas City, Missouri, where she provides legal services in the areas of appellate advocacy and complex pretrial practice in cases regarding employment discrimination law, higher education and Title IX, and family law. Prior to starting her firm, she spent ten years teaching Appellate Advocacy and Lawyering Skills at several law schools including Duke and the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law.
Hilary Reed—Hilary is a Clinical Associate Professor of Lawyering Skills and Strategies at the University of Houston Law Center. Prior to joining the Houston faculty, she taught at Pepperdine University School of Law and directed Pepperdine’s Appellate Moot Court Program.
Amanda L. Sholtis—Amanda is a Professor of Legal Methods and Director of Academic Success at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Prior to joining the Widener faculty she practiced trial and appellate litigation with the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General and clerked for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Please join me in welcoming this great group!