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Notre Dame Law School
University of Notre Dame
P.O. Box 780
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 631-6627
Fax: (574) 631-3980
Last modified:
June 29, 2007
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2002-2006
University of Notre Dame
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- Christine Venter
Office 308; tel (574) 631 5216; email
cventer@nd.edu
Christine Venter is the Director of the Legal Writing Program.
She earned her B.A. degree from the University of Cape
Town
and her law degree from the University of Cape Town School
of Law, where she was Editor of the Law Review. She also
holds
an LL.M in International Law and Human Rights (summa cum
laude) from Notre Dame
Law School and a J.S.D., also from NDLS.
Professor Venter has worked for a South African firm specializing
in civil rights litigation, and has done legal aid work
in the US.
She is a member of the Legal Writing Institute and is an
Editor of The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute.
Professor Venter teaches Legal Writing I and Legal Research
and Writing II to first year students.
- Meredith Bowers
Office B12, tel (574) 631-1884, email mbowers@nd.edu
Professor Bowers joined Notre Dame’s legal writing
program in 2006 as an Adjunct
Assistant Professor. She earned her B.A. with honors
from the University of
Wisconsin at Madison in 1992 and her J.D. from George
Washington University in
1996. After law school she worked for legal service organizations
representing
abused women in their family law matters. She also spent
two years as a
Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Law at George
Washington University.
While there she directed the Outside Placement Program
and taught a seminar
entitled “Public Interest Lawyering.” She
teaches Legal Writing I and Legal
Research and Writing II to first year students.
- Sondra
Byrnes
Office B12; tel (574) 631 9895; email sbyrnes1@nd.edu
- Leslie
Callahan
Office B12; tel (574) 631 9474; email leslie.callahan@nd.edu
Leslie D. Callahan joined the legal writing program in 2005.
She earned her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in
1986, and her A.B., cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College in
1983.
Prof. Callahan has practiced law for more than fifteen
years, as a litigator with Morrison & Foerster in New
York, as an-house attorney with AT&T, and as general
counsel for a state university research foundation. She
also served as a law clerk to the Hon. Orinda D. Evans,
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia. Most
recently, she practiced in the area of municipal finance
and economic development with Baker & Daniels in South
Bend.
- Erin Cole
Office B12; telephone (574) 631 1871; email ecole@nd.edu
Erin Cole joined the legal writing program in 2006.
She earned a B.A. in
English and Philosophy, summa cum laude, from Seattle
University in 1997. In
2000, she received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Notre
Dame Law School, where
she was a managing editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.
After graduating from NDLS, Professor Cole worked for
two years as a litigation
associate at Winston & Strawn in Chicago. In 2002,
she began clerking in the
United States District Court for the Northern District
of Indiana, first for
the Honorable Theresa L. Springmann and then for the
Honorable Paul R. Cherry.
Prior to joining the NDLS faculty, she served as a law
clerk to the Honorable
John L. Coffey of the United States Court of Appeals
for the Seventh Circuit.
Professor Cole currently teaches Legal Writing and Appellate
Advocacy to first
year students.
- Amy
Griffin
Office B12; tel (574) 631 3043; email amy.griffin@nd.edu
Professor Griffin joined Notre Dame in 2005 as an Adjunct
Assistant Professor. She earned her B.A., summa cum laude,
from Boston College in 1990. She earned her
J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt
Hall School of Law) in
1993. After graduating from Boalt, she worked as an associate
for Otten, Johnson, a Denver firm, where her practice
focused on commercial litigation.
Professor Griffin currently teaches Legal Writing
I and Legal Research and Writing II to first year students.
- Martee Moo
Office 313; tel (574) 631
3771; email mmoo@nd.edu
Professor Moo is an Adjunct Assistant Professor, teaching
Legal Writing I and Legal Research and Writing II to
first-year students. She earned her J.D. degree, with
highest distinction, from George Mason University School
of Law in 1987, graduating first in her class; and an
A.B. degree, with honors, from Indiana University-Bloomington,
in 1974, majoring in English. Prior to joining Notre
Dame in 2005, Professor Moo was a partner with Barnes & Thornburg,
where she handled business transactions for closely-held
companies, including business entity formation, joint
ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Serving as co-chair
of the Drafting Subcommittee of the Indiana State Bar
Association Task Force on Indiana Limited Liability Company
Legislation in 1991-92, she was one of the principal
drafters of the 1992 Indiana Business Flexibility Act.
- Tracey Thomas
Office B12; tel (574) 631
8418; email tthomas4@nd.edu
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