Sara Berman-Barrett

Professor of Law

Professor Berman-Barrett became professor of law at the UWLA School of Law after practicing bankruptcy law in Century City, and she began teaching at Concord Law School in 2000. Professor Berman-Barrett has also lectured extensively for BarPassers, West Bar Review, PLI, and other bar reviews, and is a nationally recognized expert on the performance test. Her publications include The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System and Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare and Try a Winning Case (both published by Nolo.com).

Steven Bracci

Associate Dean of First-Year Programs and Professor of Law

Dean Bracci is a well-known lecturer and has been teaching law since 1979. He has served as academic director for the law school divisions of a number of legal publishers. He is an expert in examination technique and has conducted writing and test-taking seminars nationwide.

Greg Brandes

Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law

Dean Brandes joined Concord as a professor in 1999 after nearly 15 years in corporate and solo practice and a successful career in business. He has over 20 years experience preparing law students and prospective law students for the bar exam and other admission and licensing examinations. He has lectured extensively, in CLE and other forums, on negotiation, management, and leadership skills and contract, business, privacy, and employment law. Among other written works, he published Straight Talk on Workplace Law, a commonsense guide to human resources compliance and risk management for small businesses. Dean Brandes was named Outstanding First-Year Professor in 2003, receiving the 2003 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was also recognized by the graduating class of 2003 with its Outstanding Faculty Award, and by a Law School Service Award in 2004. In addition to his State Bar membership, Dean Brandes is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Stephen Burnett

Associate Dean and Professor of Law

Dean Burnett joins Concord from Seattle University School of Law, where he was a professor and associate dean. A nationally recognized expert in law-related technology applications, Dean Burnett has held several administrative positions in the field including: vice president and general manager of business development and general manager of the legal business unit of Pro2Net, Internet development consultant to Lexis Publishing, director of the legal education division of West Publishing Co., president of Tailored Solutions, and director of the George Mason University School of Law Library.

Cassandra Colchagoff

Associate Dean and Professor of Law

Dean Colchagoff is the associate dean responsible for administrative and academic affairs. Before coming to Concord, she was in litigation practice in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dean Colchagoff earned her JD degree with highest honors from the University of Tulsa College of Law, receiving the Order of the Curule Chair, the highest academic honor. She was articles editor on the Tulsa Law Journal and published "A New Era for Science and the Law: The Face of Scientific Evidence in Federal Courts After Daubert v. Merrill Dow. Pharm.," 29 Tulsa Law Journal, 735 (1994).

Barry Currier

Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law

Barry Currier now serves as dean emeritus and professor of law following 6 years of service as Concord’s dean. He brought to the position more than 30 years of experience in legal education and the legal profession. Dean Currier served as a law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1971 to 1972. Thereafter, he practiced law at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles, California. From 1977 to 1996, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Florida College of Law. There, he was associate dean (1990 to 1996), acting director of the graduate tax program (1983 to 1984), professor of law (1980 to 1996), and associate professor of law (1977 to 1980). From 1996 until 2000, Dean Currier served as dean and professor of law at Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Dean Currier also taught at the University of Kentucky College of Law (1974 to 1976), Duke Law School (1976 to 1977), and Monash University Faculty of Law in Melbourne, Australia (1985). His academic areas of interest are land finance, land use planning, real property, and income taxation. In 2000, Dean Currier became deputy consultant on legal education at the American Bar Association located in Chicago, Illinois, the position he left to become the dean at Concord. At the ABA, Dean Currier worked closely with the consultant on legal education, the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, and various committees of the Section on law school approval and review and a variety of matters and projects related to legal education and the legal profession in the United States. Dean Currier is a member of the Order of the Coif, the American Law Institute, and the Urban Land Institute. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has served on the Board of Directors of The Access Group, a company in the student loan business that is the major private lender to law students in the United States.

Alana Degramo

Assistant Dean of Students and Professor of Law

Dean DeGarmo specializes in legal research and writing and was formerly a sole practitioner in California. She is a former officer in the U.S. Air Force and served as editor in chief of the Law Review at the University of La Verne College of Law, where she graduated cum laude.

James Dodge

Professor of Law

Professor Dodge began teaching at Concord Law School in 2000. Prior to teaching at Concord, he taught in paralegal and legal studies programs in traditional colleges. A former prosecutor and former assistant attorney general (Illinois), Professor Dodge also serves in the Illinois Senate President’s Office as deputy counsel, where he is part of a multiyear project to rewrite and modernize Illinois’ Criminal Code and Code of Corrections. His publications include Limited Liability Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships Under Illinois Law (both published by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education).

Jack R. Goetz

Dean Emeritus

Dean Goetz, the founding dean of Concord Law School, is a recognized expert in the field of online learning. His vision and expertise contributed greatly to the creation of Concord in 1998, and its subsequent growth. Dean Goetz has been active with the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) serving on the Board of Trustees, on a task force on assessment of learning outcomes, as chair of the Business Standards Committee, and as vice chair of the Educational Standards Committee. In April 2002, the DETC recognized Dean Goetz with their Distinguished Recognition Award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of distance education. The Board of Bar Governors of the State Bar of California appointed Dean Goetz to a 3-year term as a member of the Law School Council, which advises the Committee of Bar Examiners on various law school education matters. Dean Goetz also serves as a member of the State Bar of California’s ad-hoc task force for online education, which is evaluating Internet legal education.

Douglas Holden

Professor of Law

Professor Holden has taught at Concord since 1999. He also practices in the areas of business law, estate planning, and real estate. Professor Holden has been responsible for faculty and curriculum development work at Concord and has extensive experience in online education.

Robert Hull

Assistant Dean of Academics and Professor of Law

Dean Hull writes extensively on legal topics, and his substantive law guides and practice materials have been used by law students and practitioners nationwide. He is a cum laude graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law and has taught for 20 years. His expertise includes curriculum development and writing testing materials.

Shaun Jamison

Assistant Director of Library Services and Professor of Law

Dr. Jamison has worked for Thomson-West legal publishers, primarily in its Westlaw division. He has also taught undergraduate legal courses in both face-to-face and online formats. Prior to joining Thomson†West, Dr. Jamison was a solo practitioner in the areas of family, criminal, real property, and small business law.

Scott Johnson

Professor of Law

Professor Johnson was formerly in private practice with a focus in education law, health law, employment law, and constitutional law. He is an adjunct professor at Franklin Pierce Law Center and was counsel in Claremont v. Governor, the case establishing that New Hampshire students have a constitutional right to an adequate education. He is also the founder of NHEdLaw, LLC, and the Education Law Resource Center, which provide training and information to parents, educators, attorneys, and other professionals involved in education. Professor Johnson is a frequent presenter on legal and educational issues at various forums including continuing education programs, the Education Law Association’s annual conference, and the Education Law Institute’s annual conference.

Mark Kaufman

Professor of Law

Professor Kaufman has extensive experience with the criminal justice system both as a trial attorney and as a teacher. He has worked at the trial and appellate level on a wide range of family, criminal, and poverty/welfare law issues. He has taught at Villanova University School of Law, where he developed a cooperative clinical education program, and at Widener University in its criminal justice program.

Edward Monsour

Professor of Law

Professor Monsour has extensive teaching experience in the taxation field. In addition to his Concord courses, he teaches in the Golden Gate University Master’s of Taxation program. Additionally, Professor Monsour teaches at the University of California, Irvine, in its Graduate School of Management. He has also taught in taxation programs for accounting professionals.

Meredith Muller

Associate Director of Faculty Development and Professor of Law

Professor Muller is a full-time professor and a director of faculty development at Concord. Prior to joining the school, she served as legal editor for LexisNexis. She has also worked as a staff attorney with the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit and as a litigator in private practice. Professor Muller also taught business and family law as an adjunct for Corinthian Colleges.

Kathleen Reagan

Professor of Law

Professor Reagan was an assistant district attorney for 8 years. During that time, she prosecuted criminal cases, trained and supervised attorneys, and was chief of the family protection unit. In addition to her Concord responsibilities, Professor Reagan is associated on a part-time basis with a small law firm engaged in the general practice of law in Braintree, Massachusetts.

Martha Siegel

Associate Dean, Dean of Students, Director of Academic Support, and Professor of Law

Dean Siegel has an extensive background in developing legal writing curriculum including as the former director of the Writing Assistance and Academic Support Program and the Legal Practice Skills Program at Suffolk University Law School. Dean Siegel is the former director of the Legal Writing Program and current director of the Academic Support Program at Concord.

Andrew Tallmer

Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law

Dean Tallmer has been involved in the public policy arena for much of his career including teaching and development of legal training for public safety agencies at the North Carolina Justice Academy. He has worked as assistant deputy director at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Operations. He is also an experienced trial attorney, having worked as an assistant district attorney in Nassau County, New York. Dean Tallmer has also worked as an attorney for the New York City Police Department. He has taught various law-related courses at undergraduate institutions.

Kioyoko Tatsui

Associate Dean of the EJD Program, Degree

Program Coordinator, and Professor of Law

Prior to joining Concord, Dean Tatsui spent several years with the State Bar of California managing the Office of Client Relations and the Client Security Fund. Dean Tatsui has done numerous CLE programs, both during her tenure at the State Bar and when she worked for the Los Angeles County Municipal Courts. She is active in local bar affairs.

Jane Wise

Professor of Law

Professor Wise is a full-time faculty member with Concord. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Brigham Young University Law School, where she teaches legal research and writing in the advocacy program. She writes and publishes in law journals and is a presenter at legal writing conferences. While at the University of Utah Law School, she was the winner of the moot court competition.

Adjunt Faculty

Laurie Aronovsky

Professor of Law

Professor Aronovsky traveled extensively and taught English in Japan before starting law school at New York University. She began her legal career in California, litigating a wide variety of commercial litigation matters while volunteering in a temporary restraining order clinic for battered women. More recently, she practiced in the area of disability rights, involving high-impact class action litigation in state and federal courts.

Robert Barrett

Professor of Law

In addition to teaching at Concord, Professor Barrett teaches Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, and Professional Responsibility at the University of West Los Angeles Law School, where he also directs its Legal Aid Clinic, a walk-in, storefront-type program assisting people in a low-income neighborhood. In addition, he is a full-time professor of law and business at the University of La Verne. He has been a member of the State Bar of California’s Business Law Section Education Committee, he has been a frequent MCLE lecturer, and he is a former chair of the California State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct.

Jason Burk

Professor of Law

Professor Burk has taught at Concord since 2001. After graduation from Drake University, Professor Burk was in private practice for 9 years in Nevada specializing in medical malpractice and insurance defense litigation. He is now practicing in Atlanta with a corporate firm.

Scott Burnham

Visiting Professor of Law

Professor Burnham has taught at the University of Montana since 1981 and has been a visiting faculty member at many other law schools. He teaches Contract Drafting at Concord and is the author of The Contract Drafting Guidebook and Drafting and Analyzing Contracts. Professor Burnham is a member of the American Law Institute.

John Ciroli

Professor of Law

Professor Ciroli is an assistant public defender in Pittsburgh. He is in the appeals unit of his office and practices before all courts in Pennsylvania as well as the United States Supreme Court. In addition to his duties as an assistant public defender, Professor Ciroli is the editor of The Defender, a newsletter produced for practitioners of criminal law in and around Pittsburgh. Prior to becoming an assistant public defender, Professor Ciroli was in-house counsel for a technology company and practiced in the areas of immigration, employment, contracts, government, and international law. Professor Ciroli has studied European constitutional law abroad at Trinity University in Dublin, Ireland, and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Marc S. Cwik

Professor of Law

In addition to teaching at Concord, Professor Cwik is a private attorney practicing general civil litigation, with an emphasis in personal injury, family law, construction law, medical malpractice, and insurance defense. Professor Cwik has published several professional articles on family law and fatherhood, conducted a nationwide study on domestic violence and the response of clergy, and has testified before the Wisconsin Governor’s Commission on Families and Children on current legal issues facing families and children.

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Publications: "The Agunah Divorce Problem in Jewish Society: Exploring the Possibility of an International Law Solution," 17 Wisconsin International Law Journal, 109-144 (1999) "The Many Effects of Rape: The Victim, Her Family, and Suggestions for Family Therapy," 23 Family Therapy, 95-116 (1996). Father Involvement: Policies and Programs: Report to the Governor’s Commission on Families and Children, Madison, WI: Office of the Lieutenant Governor (1995).

Deena Degenova

Professor of Law

Education: JD, Pace University School of Law

Scott Eash

Professor of Law

Professor Eash is a senior staff research attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. He previously was a law clerk to the chief judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal. He is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, where he was on the Business Law Journal and Yearbook of International Law. Professor Eash also received a Master of Laws in Admiralty from Tulane University Law School, where he was also a member of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal.

Lynn Feldman

Professor of Law

In addition to teaching at Concord, Professor Feldman maintains a solo practice in appellate law. He also is an adjunct professor of law at University of West Los Angeles School of Law teaching Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Legal Research and Writing. Selected publications include: "Alabama v. White: Further Erosion of Fourth Amendment Rights," 22 University of West Los Angeles Law Review, 255 (1991).

Joel W. Friedman

Professor of Law

Professor Friedman is the Jack M. Gordon Professor of Procedural Law and Jurisdiction at Tulane Law School, where he also directs the Tulane-ITESM PhD program. He is the editor of Employment Discrimination Stories for West Publishing as well as the author of many casebooks, articles, and treatises in the areas of labor law, employment discrimination, and civil procedure.

Andrew Guzman

Visiting Professor of Law

In addition to his work with Concord, Dr. Guzman is professor of law, director of graduate programs, and associate dean for international and executive education at the University of California, Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall).

Scott Hayward

Professor of Law

Professor Friedman is the Jack M. Gordon Professor of Procedural Law and Jurisdiction at Tulane Law School, where he also directs the Tulane-ITESM PhD program. He is the editor of Employment Discrimination Stories for West Publishing as well as the author of many casebooks, articles, and treatises in the areas of labor law, employment discrimination, and civil procedure.

Richard Hermann

Professor of Law

Professor Hermann has been an attorney career counselor for more than 30 years. He was the cofounder of Federal Reports, Inc., a legal career publishing and consulting firm, including www.attorneyjob.com, a business sold to Thomson Reuters in 2007. He is an author and frequent speaker on law and legally related employment at conferences, such as National Association of Law Placement (NALP), national and state bar associations, and law schools across the country. Previously, he was an attorney at the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense, and the General Accounting Office. He was also a consultant to numerous U.S. government departments and agencies on national security law, personnel and employment law, and human resources matters. Legal Career Management, a course he developed and teaches for Concord, is the first course in a law school program to offer a structured approach to managing a legal career.

Mary Jensen

Professor of Law

In addition to teaching at Concord, Professor Jensen has served as an adjunct professor of legal writing with Brigham Young University. Also, she maintains an active law practice where she specializes primarily in adoptions, estate planning, and business organizations.

Andrea L. Johnson

Professor of Law

In addition to her work with Concord, Professor Johnson is a tenured professor at California Western School of Law, where she teaches Business Organization, Telecommunications, Business Planning, and Administrative Law, and directs the CWSL Center for Intellectual Property, Technology, and Telecommunications. Professor Johnson previously worked in business management and economic development in Washington, DC, where she also served as the assistant corporation counsel, and in corporate litigation for a Wall Street firm. Her recent articles on telecommunications have been published in journals such as Journal of Law and Education, Law and Technology Journal, and Rutgers Law Journal.

Marc Jones

Professor of Law

Professor Jones lives in Indiana and is a solo practitioner specializing in criminal defense work. Previously, he served in the active-duty Air Force for 10 years in the JAG Corp, where he was a criminal litigator. Although most experience was as a criminal defense attorney, he served both as a prosecuting attorney and a defense attorney. He has worked at both the trial and appellate levels.

Rob Landry

Professor of Law

Dr. Landry holds a JD degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Alabama, where he served as the lead articles editor on the Journal of the Legal Profession. Dr. Landry also holds a PhD in public administration and public policy from Auburn University. Following law school, he served as law clerk to the Honorable James S. Sledge, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, and he then entered private practice. Since 1996, Dr. Landry has practiced primarily in bankruptcy, commercial, and business law. He currently serves as an assistant U.S. bankruptcy administrator for the Northern District of Alabama and is an adjunct instructor in the College of Commerce and Business Administration at Jacksonville State University, where he teaches courses covering business law, business ethics, and real estate law. Dr. Landry has published numerous articles dealing with bankruptcy law, ethics, and public policy in journals such as the Mississippi Law Journal, Mercer Law Review, Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives, Memphis Law Review, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, and the Journal of the Legal Profession.

Edward Martin

Visiting Professor of Law

Professor Martin is a professor at Cumberland School of Law, where he teaches Torts, Damages, Professional Responsibility, and several other courses in addition to Products Liability. A law professor since 1981, he is the author of Premises Liability Law and Practice (five volumes, Matthew Bender & Co., 1987 to 2006); Personal Injury Damages (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1980); and several other works CONCORD LAW SCHOOL 355 including coauthorship of Torts: Cases, Problems and Exercises (LexisNexis, 2d Edition 2006). Professor Martin is a CALI Remedies Fellow, and has authored and taught a number of online courses at Cumberland, including Products Liability and the Endangered Species Act.

Jonathan Mcgovern

Professor of Law

Education: BA, Saint Joseph’s University; JD, Widener University School of Law

Jerry A. Menikoff

Professor of Law

Dr. Menikoff holds a joint law and public policy degree from Harvard University and a medical degree from Washington University. He currently teaches law, ethics, and medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Law School. He also taught at Harvard University’s program in ethics and the professions, the University of Chicago School of Law, Hofstra University School of Law, and University of Akron School of Law. He researches and writes extensively on bioethics, ethical issues within the practice of medicine, ophthalmology, tax, and other health care areas.

Niki Mirtorabi

Professor of Law

Professor Mirtorabi is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Law, where she was the managing editor of The Women’s Law Journal. She has practiced in the litigation and employment law fields. In addition to her work with Concord, she is currently working in the corporate headquarters of an insurance firm where her focus is group insurance.

M. Ellen Murphy

Program Director and Professor of Law, Small Business Practice LLM

Professor Murphy is the course developer and professor of Cross Profession Ethics, which focuses on fundamental, contemporary ethical questions in the practice of law, and compares the ethics of the legal profession with other professions, including medicine and the clergy. Prior to joining Concord Law School, Professor Murphy served as the executive director for Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, a private, nonprofit assistance program, serving the Massachusetts bar and bench. Professor Murphy is a graduate of Wake Forest University School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. Immediately after graduation, she served as a clerk to the Honorable Frank J. Magill, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Fargo, North Dakota, followed by several years in private practice, where she represented public and private pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporations in commercial business transactions.

Timothy Pleasant

Professor of Law

Professor Pleasant is in private practice concentrating primarily on criminal defense work. During law school, he was a federal judicial intern for the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida. He also has taught history, ethics, and political science at undergraduate and graduate levels and was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Vanessa Rollins

Professor of Law

Professor Rollins began her law career as an associate with Workman, Nydegger & Seeley in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she focused on patent and trademark prosecution. She later joined the firms of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner in Palo Alto, California, and Parsons Behle & Latimer in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she concentrated her practice in the areas of patent litigation, trademark oppositions, and domain name disputes. She has taught courses in intellectual property law, copyright law, trademark and unfair competition law, patent law, and contract law, and coached several moot court teams for the state of Michigan competition and the annual intellectual property-focused Giles Rich Moot Court Competition. In addition, Professor Rollins has been an assistant professor of law at Ave Maria School of Law, an adjunct professor of law at Michigan State University School of Law, and most recently she was a visiting professor of law at Wayne State University School of Law. Her publications include: 356 "Illustrative Fair Use: Braun versus the Bunny," 13 Marquette I.P. L. Rev. 285 (2009); and "If It Walks Like Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck, Shouldn’t It Be a Duck? How a ’Functional’ Approach Ameliorates the Discontinuity Between the ’Primary Significance’ Tests for Genericness and Secondary Meaning,” 37 N.M. L. Rev. 147 (2007). Professor Rollins worked as a molecular biologist before entering the legal profession.

Abraham Ronai

Professor of Law

Professor Ronai’s practice includes patent litigation, patent prosecution, and related counseling in the mechanical-, electrical-, electromechanical-, and medical device-related disciplines. Prior to entering the legal profession, Professor Ronai was a mechanical design engineering intern for the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies Corporation. Professor Ronai has a strong scientific, technical, and legal background. Beginning with his undergraduate mechanical engineering degree from Cornell University and continuing with his work at Kenyon & Kenyon LLP and other firms, he has had broad exposure to many areas of technology and the legal issues involved with their application.

Diane Schussel

Professor of Law

Professor Schussel has worked in the area of affordable housing in Chicago and the Southeast. In addition to teaching legal writing, she taught art history at the undergraduate level prior to joining Concord.

Robert Schwarts

Professor of Law

Professor Schwartz has been on the faculty at the University of New Mexico since 1976. Professor Schwartz is a nationally recognized scholar in the area of bioethics, which he teaches at Concord. He is one of five authors of Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems, the first textbook that treated health law as a subject when it was first published in 1987 and the leading health law textbook in the United States.

Angela Slater

Professor of Law

Professor Slater obtained her Juris Doctorate from New York University School of Law, where she received two American Jurisprudence Awards. She has been actively practicing law for nearly 20 years. She has devoted her private practice to litigation, with an emphasis on complex scientific pharmaceutical, medical device, and toxic tort litigation. She has significant experience in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) related litigation issues. Professor Slater has been a litigation director for a number of law firms. She is a past chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Products Liability and Toxic Tort Section and has been an active speaker at various New Jersey Bar continuing legal education programs. She also is an elected member of the International Association of Defense Counsel and has been active through the years in various ABA committees. Professor Slater has lectured nationally on topics related to complex product liability actions including FDA issues, admissibility of expert scientific and medical testimony, and preemption. She has represented major pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in state and federal actions, both locally and nationally.

John Stockton

Professor of Law

Professor Stockton has extensive experience in transactional work, primarily in corporate finance, leasing and project finance, and commercial real estate. He was senior vice president and general counsel for a commercial finance corporation and is currently in private practice

Deena Sturm

Professor of Law

As an associate at Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, Professor Sturm has experience in a wide variety of intellectual property matters including drafting and prosecuting patent applications, preparing patent invalidity and noninfringement opinions, and participating in patent and trademark litigations. Professor Sturm’s work has primarily focused on clients in the soft ware and mechanical fields. She has also worked on matters related to other areas including surgical devices, electronic management systems, foreign language learning systems, and entertainment and media matters.

Jeffrey Van Detta

Professor of Law

Professor Van Detta clerked for a federal appeals court and then was in private practice for 12 years at an international law firm. In his practice, he concentrated on labor law, employment discrimination law, international business counseling, and federal court litigation. He has published extensively in the law reviews and is on the faculty at the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, Georgia.

Paul Virgo

Professor of Law

Professor Virgo practices in Los Angeles, California, where he is of counsel to the Century Law Group. He specializes in the defense of attorneys in regulatory and licensure proceedings and civil actions. He is an adjunct professor of law in professional responsibility at Whittier Law School and the University of West Los Angeles School of Law. He is a frequent lecturer on legal ethics and professional responsibility before numerous organizations, associations, and committees. Professor Virgo retired from the State Bar of California after 25 years of service, the last 12 of which he was an assistant chief trial counsel.

Susan Vollmer

Professor of Law

Professor Vollmer is in private practice concentrating in real estate, estate planning, and corporate law. She has been involved in public interest law including as a law clerk for the Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project and at the University of Dayton Law School.

Terry L. Watt

Professor of Law

Dr. Watt is a director of an IP group for the Tulsa firm of Feller, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey and Tippens, P.C. His practice includes trademark, copyright, and patent law and litigation, with particular focus on computer and soft ware law. Dr. Watt is a registered patent attorney and an adjunct professor at the College of Law, University of Tulsa.

Katy Yag-Page

Professor of Law

Professor Yag-Page graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Northwestern University and received her law degree from New York University in 1994. Professor Yang-Page has been a practicing lawyer for more than 10 years, focusing primarily on constitutional, employment, and immigration law. After graduating from law school, she clerked for federal district court judge Mary M. Lisi in the district of Rhode Island. She was an attorney for the Justice Department as well as for large private law firms in Los Angeles. Professor Yang-Page was also a staff attorney at the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, an affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union. She has published in several areas of constitutional law and has lectured students, lawyers, and employers on such topics as the Fourth Amendment, campaign finance reform, and sexual harassment and diversity in the workplace. Professor Yang-Page is currently in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Barbara Youngberg

Professor of Law

Professor Youngberg is the former vice president of insurance, risk, quality, and legal services for the University Health System Consortium, an alliance of 92 academic medical centers located across the United States. She has served as an adjunct professor for 9 years at the Loyola University Chicago College of Law and Health Law Institute. She is the primary author of four textbooks related to health care risk management and patient safety, and serves on the editorial board for the American Journal of Medical Quality and Patient Safety and Quality Health Care.

VISITING AND SUPPLEMENTARY LECTURERS

The Concord curriculum also is enriched by visiting and supplementary lecturers. Working with the Concord faculty, nationally known subject matter experts provide video lectures and guidance to the course content. The lecturers have over 150 years of combined law teaching experience, are recognized experts in their field, and have taught thousands of law students in their respective subjects. The lecturers include:

Professor John Blum

Health Law

Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Professor Mary Cheh

Constitutional Law

George Washington University School of Law

Professor Rafael Guzman

Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence

University of Arkansas School of Law

Professor Marcy Kelly

Federal Taxation and Wills and Trusts

Golden Gate University School of Law

Professor Laurel Leifert

Community Property

Private practice

Professor Lawrence Levine

Torts

McGeorge School of Law

Professor Arthur Miller

Civil Procedure and Intellectual Property

Harvard Law School

John Moye, Esq.

Contracts and Corporations and Business Organizations

Private practice; former associate dean of the University of Denver and past president of the Colorado Bar Association

Professor Douglas Whaley

Commercial Law

The Ohio State University