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Alfred Aman, the Dean of Suffolk
University Law School effective July 1, 2007, is an internationally
known scholar and lecturer. Dean Aman was the Dean of Indiana
University School of Law - Bloomington from 1991-2002. More
recently, Dean Aman has been the Roscoe C. O'Byrne Professor
of Law at Indiana. He has previously served as a member of
the Cornell University Law School faculty and has held a Distinguished
Fulbright Chair in Trento, Italy, and visiting professorships
in England, France, and Italy. Dean Aman is the author of five
books and numerous articles on administrative and regulatory
law, especially as it relates to the global economy. He will
teach Administrative Law during the Spring 2008 semester.
Dean Aman is a graduate of the University of Rochester and
the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Executive
Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.
- D. Christopher Dearborn is joining
the Suffolk Law School clinical faculty to teach in the Suffolk
Defenders Program. Most recently, Professor Dearborn was
a Senior Associate at the Boston law firm of Rankin & Sultan,
where his practice focused on criminal defense in state and federal
courts. Professor Dearborn previously practiced as a Staff Attorney
for nine years with the Committee for Public Counsel Services,
where he represented indigent defendants in Massachusetts trial
courts. He has also served as an adjunct faculty member at New
England School of Law and Western New England College of Law,
where he taught trial practice courses. Professor Dearborn is
a graduate of St. Lawrence University and Vermont Law School.
- Sabrina DeFabritiis graduated from
Boston College and Suffolk University Law School, where she served
as Vice President of the Moot Court Honor Board and the Journal
of Trial & Appellate Advocacy. Additionally, she was a member
of the Moot Court Tax Team, which won the National Competition
in 2002. After clerking for the Justices of the Massachusetts
Superior Court, Professor DeFabritiis spent approximately four
years as an associate in the Boston office of Campbell Campbell
Edwards & Conroy P.C., where she practices in their advanced
motions and appellate practice department. Professor DeFabritiis
will teach Legal Practice Skills.
- Jeffrey Lipshaw received his undergraduate
education at the University of Michigan and is a graduate of
Stanford Law School. Following law school graduation, Professor
Lipshaw practiced with the law firm of Dykema Gossett of Detroit,
Bloomfield Hills and Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has also served
as a Vice President and General Counsel for two corporations.
In 2005, he moved from the corporate world to teach as a visiting
professor at Wake Forest University School of Law and later at
Tulane University Law School. Professor Lipshaw has written extensively
in the areas of contracts and business law. At Suffolk University
Law School, Professor Lipshaw will teach Agency, Partnership & The
LLC and Securities Regulation.
- Erik Pitchal is joining the Suffolk
Law School clinical faculty to teach in the Child Advocacy
Clinic. Most recently, Professor Pitchal was the Director
of the Interdisciplinary Center for Family and Child Advocacy
at Fordham Law School. He also served as an Adjunct Associate
Professor at Fordham Law teaching Children and the Law and Family
Law courses. Professor Pitchal was previously an attorney on
the staff of Children’s Rights in New York City, where
he conducted class litigation on behalf of foster children in
multiple jurisdictions. He has also been employed as a staff
attorney within the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid
Society in Brooklyn, New York. Professor Pitchal is a graduate
of Brown University and Yale Law School.
- Ragini Shah is joining the Suffolk
Law School clinical faculty to teach in the Immigration Law
Clinic. Most recently, Professor Shah was a Lecturer in
Law and Clinical Staff Attorney in the Child Advocacy and Immigration
Law Clinics at Columbia University School of Law. Before working
at Columbia Law School, Professor Shah was a staff attorney in
a number of legal services organizations in the New York area.
She has also taught Employment Law as an adjunct faculty member
at the School of Management and Labor Relations of Rutgers University.
Professor Shah received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern
University and she is a graduate of Northeastern University School
of Law.
- Gabriel Teninbaum earned a J.D.,
cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School (Evening Division),
where he was the Chief Comments Editor of Suffolk Transnational
Law Review. He also has a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University
and a master's degree from Cambridge College. Before attending
law school, he served in the U.S. Secret Service, where his duties
included physically protecting the President of the United States
and other important dignitaries. After graduating from law school,
Professor Teninbaum worked as a trial attorney at Sugarman & Sugarman,
P.C. where he represented plaintiffs in courts throughout Massachusetts
in wrongful death, premises and liquor liability, motor vehicle
and medical malpractice litigation. Professor Teninbaum will
teach Legal Practice Skills.
- Elizabeth Trujillo was previously assistant professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. In 2006, Professor Trujillo was visiting professor at Florida State University College of Law where she taught NAFTA, Sales, and Business Organizations. After law school, Professor Trujillo practiced as an associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP in Houston where she practiced in the areas of corporate law, project finance and international business transactions, with an emphasis on energy and Latin America. In addition to working for U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, she has also clerked for the United Nations, Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, France as well as for the National Commercial Appellate Court of Argentina (Cámara Nacional de Apelaciones en lo Comercial) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Currently, she writes and lectures in the areas of international trade and domestic regulatory structures as well as energy and antitrust law. Professor Trujillo will be teaching Contracts and a NAFTA and International Trade Seminar.
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- Edwin Hood is the Ruth M. Hulen Professor
of Law at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and is a
national expert in the fields of taxation and estate planning.
Distinguished Visiting Professor Hood has been a member of the
law faculty at the University of Missouri at Kansas City since
1969. Prior to joining the University of Missouri at Kansas City,
he taught at New York University School of Law and Willamette
University. He has served as the Director of the Graduate Tax
Program at the University of Missouri at Kansas City since 1993
and also serves as the Director of its Ireland Summer School
Program. Distinguished Visiting Professor Hood is the author
of leading law school casebooks on taxation of close corporations,
use of closely held corporations in business and estate planning,
and taxation of limited liability companies.
Distinguished
Visiting Professor Hood received a B.B.A. degree from the University
of Iowa, a J.D. degree from the University of Iowa College
of Law, and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School
of Law. He will teach Basic Federal Income Taxation and Corporate
Taxation during the Fall 2007 semester.
- Ruth Jones is a Professor of Law
at McGeorge School of Law where she has taught in the criminal
law field since 1996. Prior to joining the McGeorge faculty,
Professor Jones taught as an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law
at Fordham Law School. Professor Jones had previously served
as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District
Attorney’s Office and as a Staff Attorney for the NOW Legal
Defense and Education Fund. Professor Jones’ scholarship
has focused on domestic violence and criminal law.
Professor
Jones received her undergraduate degree from Smith College
and a law degree from the University of California-Los Angeles
School of Law. Professor Jones will teach Criminal Law while
visiting at Suffolk Law School during the Fall 2007 semester.
- Robert Keatinge is a nationally recognized
expert in the field of business organizations and the tax consequences
relating to business organizations. Visiting Professor Keatinge
is Of Counsel to the Denver, Colorado firm of Holland & Hart
LLP. During the fall and spring semesters of the 2007-2008 academic
year, he will be on a leave of absence from his law firm in order
to teach at Suffolk University Law School.
Visiting Professor
Keatinge is a member of the American Law Institute where he
serves on the Consultative Groups for the Restatement of the
Law of Agency and Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations.
He has held numerous leadership positions in the American Bar
Association. He is the author or co-author of numerous national
texts and articles focusing on business entities, including
limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships,
and limited partnerships.
Visting Professor Keatinge has served on the adjunct faculty
of the University of Denver College of Law and the University
of Miami Graduate Program in Estate Planning. He received a
B.A. degree from the University of Colorado and a J.D. from
the University of Denver, along with an LL.M. in Taxation from
the University of Denver.Visiting Professor Keatinge will teach Agency,
Partnership & The LLC and Basic Federal Income
Taxation during the 2007-2008 academic year.
- Wayne Lewis is a Professor of Law
at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, where he has
taught since 1982. From 2000-2004, he served as Associate Dean
at DePaul and also served for two years as Acting Dean of DePaul.
Prior to teaching at DePaul, he taught for two years on the faculty
of Indiana University School of Law. Visting Professor Lewis
was earlier employed as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission,
and served for two years as Assistant Regional Director, Chicago
Regional Office of the Federal Trade Commission. Visiting Professor
Lewis is the co-author of two nationally-published law school
casebooks in the area of negotiable instruments.
Visiting
Professor Lewis received a B.A. degree from Rutgers University
and a J.D. from Cornell Law School where he was a member of
the Cornell Law Review. He previously served as a Visiting
Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School during the
Fall 2006 semester.
Visiting Professor Lewis will teach Commercial Law Sales and Commercial
Paper during the Spring 2008 semester.
- Mary Szto has been Visiting Associate
Professor of Law at Santa Clara Law School since 2005. Previously,
she taught at Regent University School of Law, Pepperdine University
School of Law, and the University of Detroit Mercy School of
Law. Visting Professor Szto also serves as the Co-Director of
the Summer Law Program in Xiamen, China of Touro College Jacob
D. Fuchsberg Law Center in New York.
Prior to entering teaching,
Visiting Professor Szto practiced law in New York City, served
as an Assistant Vice President of Citibank, N.A., and was Acting
Executive Director of Jubilee Legal Services in New York, an
organization that specializes in providing immigration legal
services in both the Chinese and English languages.
Visiting Professor Szto has lectured and written on a variety
of matters dealing with the Chinese and American legal systems.
She is currently writing two casebooks dealing with Chinese
Law, both to be published by Carolina Academic Press.
Visiting Professor Szto received her undergraduate degree
from Wellesley College, an M.A. in Religion from Westminster
Theological Seminary of Philadelphia and a J.D.from Columbia
University School of Law. At Suffolk University Law School,
Visting Professor Szto will teach Introduction to Chinese
Law, Nonprofit Organizations and Property during
the 2007-2008 academic year.
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Richard J. Buckingham is a Legal Reference
Librarian at Suffolk University Law School. He is a graduate
of Rutgers School of Law - Newark and joined the Suffolk Law
Library staff, in 2002, shortly after receiving his Masters
degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College.
While at Simmons, he worked part-time as a library intern at
Harvard Law School. As a Legal Reference Librarian at Suffolk,
Mr. Buckingham has guest lectured on legal research techniques
in numerous law school classes, including Advanced Legal Research,
Appellate Practice, and International Criminal Activity. Mr.
Buckingham will teach International and Comparative Research during
the Fall 2007 semester.
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Dino M. Colucci concentrates his legal
practice in the area of trial work, particularly in the area
of complex and catastrophic personal injury matters. He has
represented victims of aircraft disasters, individuals who
have experienced medical negligence and survivors of the World
Trade Center attack. In the past several years, his practice
has also involved representation of elderly who are victims
of nursing home negligence. Mr. Colucci will teach Trial
Evidence in the Spring 2008 semester.
Mr. Colucci has served as a member of the Board of Trustees
of Suffolk University. He is a graduate of Tufts University
and Suffolk University Law School.
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Marshall S. Davis is a graduate of Brandeis University and Harvard Law School . Since 1972, he has practiced continuously in the Greater Boston area. His legal practice is general and varied, with particular emphasis in the following areas: Real Estate of all kinds (i.e. residential, commercial, condominium, leases, lender representation, etc.); Estate Planning (i.e. wills, trusts and probate) and General Business/Corporate representation. Mr. Davis will teach Conveyancing in the Spring 2008 semester.
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Stacey Friends is associated with the Boston law firm of Ruberto , Israel and Weiner. Her practice focuses on copyright and trademark law, licensing, corporate and business matters, and art and entertainment law. Before joining the firm, Ms. Friends was an attorney at Peabody & Arnold LLP. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Art, Entertainment & Sports Law Committee of the Boston Bar Association. She received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York, a Masters Degree in Education from Boston University and a J.D. degree (summa cum laude) from Suffolk University Law School . Ms. Friends will teach Copyright Law at Suffolk University Law School .
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David Gibbs is a graduate of
Tufts University and the University of California School of
Law at Boalt Hall. He has practiced law for over twenty -five
years as a trial and business lawyer, focusing on complex business
matters and disputes involving advising owners of emerging,
closely held and family businesses, intellectual property and
technology issues and real estate . For more than fifteen years,
Mr. Gibbs has had an active practice in dispute resolution,
including serving as a mediator arbitrator in more than one
hundred fifty cases. In addition, Mr.Gibbs has designed dispute
resolution systems for clients, trade associations and courts,
trained mediators and acted as an advocate for clients in ADR
procedures. Mr.Gibbs has taught Negotiation in the M.B.A.
program at Babson College and previously taught Litigating Technology
Disputes at Suffolk Law School. Mr. Gibbs will teach Negotiation
Theory and Practice at Suffolk during the Spring 2008
semester.
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Karl-Otto Hartmann has over 25 years' legal and operations experience with investment advisers, mutual funds, hedge funds and business start-ups. Since 2006, Mr. Hartmann has been providing consulting services to such companies through his firm, IntelliMagic LLC, and the web site, www.moneymanagerservices.com. Previously, he served in senior management positions at several major financial services organizations including most recently as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of J.P. Morgan's fund servicing operations. Mr. Hartmann started his legal career in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he was associated with the offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Gaston & Snow. He received an AB from Dartmouth College , JD from Santa Clara University , and MBA from the University of California , Berkeley . Mr. Hartmann will teach Investment Management Regulation in the Spring 2008 semester.
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