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Timothy M. Casey
Assistant Professor
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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Katherine M. Hessler
Professor; Associate Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution
kathy.hessler@case.edu
Professor, B.A. 1985 (George Washington), J.D. 1987 (William and Mary), LL.M. 1997 (Georgetown)
A former staff attorney at Legal Services of Northern Virginia, Profesor Hessler had extensive teaching experience (Cornell, University of Dayton, Georgetown, Capital University) prior to joining our faculty in 2000. She has published articles on the suppression of free speech, and animal law and mediation. She teaches in the Civil Litigation and Mediation Clinic, and anAnimal Law Seminar. Professor Hessler is the Associate Director for the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution. She also directs the Cleveland Summer Legal Academy, a program for minority high school students interested in the law. Professor Hessler is also Co-Chair of the AALS Clinical Section, Chair Elect of the pending Animal Law Section and on the Executive Board of the Balance in Legal Education.
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D’Lorah L. Hughes
Visiting Assistant Professor
dlorah.hughes@case.edu
B.A. 1998 (C.S.U. Long Beach), J.D. 2001 (Duke)
Prior to coming to Case, Professor Hughes served as a judicial clerk under the Honorable Janis Graham Jack of the U.S. District Court in Texas’s Southern District, a staff attorney in AIDS Legal Services, and at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, and also as Deputy Public Defender for the Orange County Public Defender’s Office in Santa Ana, California. Most recently she served as Assistant Professor & First-Year Program Coordinator at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California. Professor Hughes is a member of the Clinical Legal Education Association, the California Public Defender’s Association, and the Orange County Bar Association, among others. She also recently delivered a presentation, “Millennial Law Students and Clinical Legal Education” during the Humanizing Legal Education Symposium at Washburn Law School. She teaches in the Health Law 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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Matthew Rossman
Associate Professor
matthew.rossman@case.edu
B.A. 1992 (Miami University), J.D. 1996 (New York University)
Prior to joining the faculty in 2004, Professor Rossman taught the Small Business Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and had a fellowship at the University of Baltimore School of Law, teaching in its Community Development Clinic. From 1996 to 2000, Professor Rossman practiced corporate, securities, non-profit and real estate law as an associate with Latham & Watkins and Christy & Viener in New York City. From 1998 to 2000, he also served on Brooklyn (NY) Community Board 6, whose members are appointed to advise New York City agencies and officials on a variety of issues of concern to city residents, and on the Board's Economic and Waterfront Development Committee. He is a member of the New York and Ohio Bars. His specialties include nonprofit and community development law, business entities, transactional law and clinical education. He teaches in the Community Development Clinic and the Urban Development Lab.
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