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Timothy M. Casey
Professor of Law
tim.casey@case.edu
B.A. 1988 (Boston College), J.D. 1992 (University of California, Hastings) LL.M. 2002 (Columbia)
Professor Casey practiced criminal law with the Legal Aid Society in New York City, first with the Trial Division and then with the Criminal Appeals Bureau. He later trained newly hired attorneys and developed a niche practice in coram nobis litigation. He joined the Case faculty in 2004, arriving from Columbia Law School where, as an Associate in Law, he developed and taught the Criminal Practice Clinic. In 2003, he was awarded a Public Policy Fellowship at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. In 2004, he was presented with the Presidential Teaching Award at Columbia University, and in 2005, he received a UCITE Learning Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University. His scholarly interests include public institutional design and specialized courts, and he recently published an article on juvenile drug courts, When Good Intentions are Not Enough: Problem Solving Courts and the Impending Crisis of Legitimacy, SMU Law Review (Fall, 2004). Mr. Casey currently teaches the Criminal Justice Clinic.
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Yuri R. Linetsky
Visiting Assistant Professor
yuri.linetsky@case.edu
B.A. 1997, J.D. 2000 (Case Western Reserve)
Prior to his current faculty appointment, and since graduating from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Professor Linetsky practiced law at the Cleveland-based firm of Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP. At the firm, his practice focused on general commercial litigation, where he was involved in representing clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 250 companies. Beginning in 2003, Professor Linetsky has held an adjunct appointment at the law school, teaching trial advocacy skills in the Jonathan M. Ault Mock Trial program. Currently, he teaches in the Civil Litigation and Mediation Clinic.
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Judith P. Lipton
Professor; Co-Director of the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center
judith.lipton@case.edu
B.S. 1971, M.S.S.W. 1972 (Wisconsin), J.D. 1979 (Connecticut)
Professor Lipton joined the Case Western Reserve Faculty in 1980 after practicing as a social worker and attorney for Legal Aid. She helped to establish the J.D./M.S.S.A. dual degree program. She is the co-director of the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center and teaches in the Criminal Justice and Health Law Clinics. Her current research and practice focuses on inter-disciplinary strategies for addressing domestic violence and the rights of immigrant victims of family violence.
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Kenneth R. Margolis
Professor; Director of the CaseArc Integrated Lawyering Skills Program; Co-Director of the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center
kenneth.margolis@case.edu
B.A. 1972 (California, Santa Barbara), J.D. 1976 (Case Western Reserve)
Professor Margolis was a principal in Fox & Margolis in Santa Cruz, California, and engaged in private practice in Cleveland before joining the faculty in 1984. His experience included a wide range of litigation, transactional, civil and criminal cases. He is the Co-Director of the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center, the law school's real client teaching clinic. He is also Director of the CaseArc Integrated Lawyering Skills Program. He is a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He teaches in the Community Development Clinic and Focused Problem Solving in the CaseArc program. His primary research and publications are in the areas of attorney-client relations and the delivery of legal services.
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Louise W. McKinney
Professor
louise.mckinney@case.edu
B.A. 1973 (Heidelberg College), J.D. 1978 (Case Western Reserve)
Before beginning full-time legal teaching, Ms. McKinney was an attorney for ten years with the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, most of them in its Law Reform unit representing clients in issues related to health and disability law. She joined our faculty in 1989 after a year in Africa as director of clinical legal education at the University of Botswana. In addition to clinical courses-particularly the Health Law Clinic-she teaches Poverty, Social Inequality, and the Law and Focused Problem Solving. In 1998-99 she was on leave as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Nairobi and continues to participate in international legal education settings.
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Laura McNally
Associate Professor
laura.mcnally@case.edu
B.A. 1996 (William Smith), J.D. 1999 (Syracuse)
A former staff attorney with the Alabama disabilities Advocacy Program, the federally funded statewide protection and advocacy program for individuals with disabilities. She was also a fellow and then Lecturer in Clinical Legal Education at the University of Alabama where she taught the Children's rights Clinic and the Disability Litigation Clinic. Prior to joining Case, Ms. McNally spent the 2004-2005 academic year as a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Suffolk University School of Law. Professor McNally spent her first two years at Case teaching in the Civil Litigation and Mediation Clinic and the Health Law Clinic. Currently, she teaches in the Health Law Clinic.
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Carmen Naso
Visiting Assistant Professor
carmen.naso@case.edu
B.A. 1976 (Kent State University), J.D. 1978 (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law)
Prior to his faculty appointment Mr. Naso spent 30 years in the practice of
law, the last 7 of which were as the Supervising Attorney for the Juvenile
Justice Unit of the Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney, where he trained a
staff of young lawyers before transfer to prosecute adult felony cases.
Additionally, Mr. Naso has been an Instructor of Trial Advocacy at
Cleveland-Marshall and an adjunct Professor at John Carroll University where
he taught Criminal Justice, Corrections, and Sociology of Law. Currently he
teaches in the Criminal Law Clinic.
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Andrew Pollis
Visiting Assistant Professor
andrew.pollis@case.edu
A.B. 1986 (Brown University),
J.D. 1990 (Harvard University)
Professor Pollis joined the faculty in 2008 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Before his appointment, Professor Pollis practiced law for 18 years in the litigation department of the Cleveland-based law firm of Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP. In private practice he focused extensively on appellate and general-commercial litigation and was one of the first 11 lawyers certified as an Ohio appellate-law specialist when that certification was first introduced in Ohio in 2008. He lectures frequently on appellate-law issues and co-authored (with Judge Mark Painter) the 2008-09 edition and the forthcoming 2009-10 edition of Ohio Appellate Practice (Thomson/West). Professor Pollis also has extensive trial experience, amassing verdicts totaling over $560 million since 2003, as well as experience in class-action litigation on the defense side. Professor Pollis teaches in the Civil Litigation and Mediation Clinic in the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center, hearkening back to his roots as a law student at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. He also teaches Appellate Practice.
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Matthew Rossman
Professor of Law
matthew.rossman@case.edu
B.A. 1992 (Miami University), J.D. 1996 (New York University)
Matthew Rossman joined the Law School's faculty in 2004. Prior to coming to Case Western Reserve, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Baltimore. Before teaching, Prof. Rossman was in private practice with the New York offices of Latham & Watkins and Christy & Viener. His practice areas included corporate, securities, real estate, tax and nonprofit law.
Prof. Rossman coordinates and co-teaches the Community Development Clinic, through which third-year law students provide transactional and business law services to community-based nonprofit organizations and sustainable business ventures in the Cleveland area. In his legal career, Prof. Rossman has represented the full spectrum of public and private entity clients, ranging from mom-and-pop businesses and grass-roots community groups to municipalities and foundations to Fortune 500 companies and Wall Street investment banks. Through the Community Development Clinic, he aspires to teach law students the array of skills necessary to succeed in representing "organizations", no matter the size or setting.
Prof. Rossman also created and teaches the Urban Development Lab. The UDL functions as a legal think tank focused on the redevelopment and revitalization of urban areas. In the Lab, law students research and prepare reports on topics identified by local nonprofit development organizations as significant to their efforts to rehabilitate urban properties and to make urban areas like Cleveland more livable and sustainable. Most recently, Prof. Rossman has worked with students to prepare reports on tax increment financing, neighborhood-based development authorities, eminent domain, Ohio's municipal home rule amendment and land banks.
With Prof. Kermit Lind from Cleveland Marshall College of Law, Prof. Rossman coordinates the Cleveland Roundtable on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law. The Roundtable, which consists of practicing lawyers, law students and law faculty, meets monthly during the academic year to discuss important practice related issues in these areas of law.
Prof. Rossman is also a frequent speaker on issues related to nonprofit and small business law. Most recently, he has spoken at the Foundation Center, the Urban League of Greater Cleveland, the Weatherhead School of Management and ShoreBank Enterprise Cleveland.
Prof. Rossman is a member of the Ohio and New York Bars.
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