Adjunct Faculty

The following experienced practitioners serve as adjunct faculty members.

Joshua L. Abrams
Oberlin College, BA 1988
Northeastern University, JD 1997

Mr. Abrams is legal counsel-employment and labor/patient care in the Office of the General Counsel at Partners HealthCare Systems. He teaches Health Law.

Honorable Janis M. Berry
Boston University, BA 1971, JD 1974

Judge Berry is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. She was previously a partner in the trial department of Rubin and Rudman, and also served in the US Department of Justice and US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts. She teaches Appellate Advocacy.

Honorable Carol S. Ball
Smith College, BA 1973
Northeastern University, JD 1976

Judge Ball is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. For 20 years prior to her appointment to the bench in 1996, she was an active criminal and civil trial attorney as an assistant district attorney in Middlesex County and as a criminal defense attorney. She teaches trial advocacy at the School of Law, as well as at Harvard Law School, and Criminal Trial Practice.

Honorable Jay D. Blitzman
Union College, BA 1971
Boston College, JD 1974

Judge Blitzman is an associate justice of the Middlesex Juvenile Court. Prior to his appointment in 1996, he was a founder and the first director of the Youth Advocacy Project (YAP), a community based legal services organization in Roxbury, Mass. In 2000, he was appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court Committee on Judicial Ethics and is a member of the Supreme Judicial Court Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure. He is the chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association's Juvenile Practice Committee. He has served as a clinical supervisor for programs at Harvard and Boston College Law Schools. He teaches Juvenile Courts.

Robert G. Burdick
Harvard University, AB
Boston University, JD

Mr. Burdick has been the director of the Civil Law Clinical Program at Boston University Law School since 1979. He is a nationally recognized authority in the area of negotiation and professional responsibility and has led training programs for the Washington State Legislature, Connecticut Legal Services and the Alaska Attorney General's Office. He also teaches conflict resolution skills to students in Boston-area schools. He teaches Negotiations.

Donald L. Cabell
Université de Paris, 1983-84
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, BA 1986
Northeastern University, JD 1991

Following his graduation from law school in 1991, Mr. Cabell spent four years in private practice litigating commercial, securities and employment matters, first as a litigation associatefor Hale and Dorr, and then for Peckham Lobel Casey Prince and Tye. Since 1995, Mr. Cabell has worked for the Department of Justice as an assistant US attorney in the Boston. His responsibilities have included prosecuting all types of federal felony offenses, including firearms, narcotics, fraud and violent crime, but he has focused his practice for the last several years on prosecuting terrorism and espionage cases as a member of the Office's Antiterrorism and National Security Unit. In addition to trying dozens of cases in the District Court, Mr. Cabell has successfully argued several matters before the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Cabell teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program. 

Romeo G. Camba
Rutgers University, BS 1990
Northeastern University, JD 1994

Mr. Camba is the head of the Law Clerk Program at the Massachusetts Superior Court. He was previously an assistant attorney general at the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, a litigation associate at Burns & Levinson LLP, and a law clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Mr. Camba teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program. 

Thomas P. Campbell
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, BA
Northeastern University, JD 1993

Mr. Campbell is an associate with Brody, Hardoon, Perkins and Kesten, LLP, whose practice focuses on commercial litigation and individual rights and responsibilities. He was previously an assistant district attorney for Suffolk County and concentrated on sexual assault and domestic violence cases. He has tried more than 50 cases in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts and has appeared before the Supreme Judicial Court, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. He teaches both Civil and Criminal Trial Practice.

Peter Campia
Northeastern University, BS 1978
Suffolk University, MBA 1986
Ohio Northern University, JD 1998
Boston University, LLM 1999

Mr. Campia teaches Trusts and Estates.

Phil Catanzano
Northeastern University, BS 1999)
Boston College, JD 2002, MEd 2002

Mr. Catanzano is an attorney with the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. Previously, Mr. Catanzano was a litigator at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, where his practice focused on intellectual property litigation. During his time in private practice, Mr. Catanzano also dedicated a substantial amount of time to the firm's pro bono efforts, representing indigent clients in immigration asylum proceedings and in the Massachusetts state and federal courts. In addition, he has drafted amicus briefs to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court regarding the privacy rights of sexual assault victims and he currently serves as the Amicus Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Section. Mr. Catanzano has most recently published an article in the Massachusetts Law Review regarding the impact of globalization on trademark rights. He teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program. 

Sara Guardino Colket
Boston University, BA
Northeastern University, JD

Ms. Colket works on the National Cancer Institute Project at the law school's Public Health Advocacy Institute. Her current research focuses on the industry's document destruction history and on analyzing the role of attorney-client privilege in tobacco and public health litigation. She worked previously as a litigation and employment attorney in Boston. She teaches the Public Health Legal Clinic.

Robert C. Davis
Brown University, BA 1969
Boston College Law School, JD 1972

Mr. Davis is a director at Goulston & Storrs. His practice focuses on real estate issues, including sale, acquisition, leasing and development, and borrower financing. His 30 years of practice encompasses retail, hotel, office and residential projects. His recognitions include Best Lawyers in America, 2006. He teaches Modern Real Estate Development.

Brian M. Flynn
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, BA 1998
Northeastern University, JD 1993

Mr. Flynn is a senior staff attorney with Greater Boston Legal Services in its Welfare Law Unit. He has extensive litigation experience with both individual and impact litigation in areas including welfare and child support issues. He previously served as a staff attorney with Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services. He teaches Welfare Law.

Patricia Garin
SUNY Buffalo, BA 1975
Antioch/New England Graduate School, 1980
Northeastern University, JD 1984

Ms. Garin teaches the Prisoners' Rights Clinic.

Sarah Garraty
Evergreen State University, BA 1976
Northeastern University, JD 1980

Ms. Garraty is a full-time mediator and arbitrator specializing in labor and employment mediation. She mediates for several Superior Court programs in Massachusetts and serves as a trainer and third party neutral for state offices and courts in New Hampshire and Maine. She teaches both Alternative Dispute Resolution and Negotiations.

Richard N. Gottlieb
New England School of Law, JD 1986
Boston University School of Law, LLM 1990

Mr. Gottlieb is a board-certified specialist in business bankruptcy law and consumer bankruptcy law. He is the principal in the Law Office of Richard N. Gottlieb. He teaches Bankruptcy.

Joshua S. Grinspoon
Cornell University, BA 1988
Northeastern University, JD 1993
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, MPA 2000

Mr.  Grinspoon is an attorney at the Boston Regional Office of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, working in its Division of Enforcement and Office of Investor Education and Advocacy.  Prior to working at the SEC, Mr. Grinspoon was an attorney in the Enforcement Section of the Massachusetts Securities Division, where he investigated and litigated numerous instances of securities fraud.  Prior to that, he practiced corporate and securities law at the law firm Gadsby Hannah in Boston. Mr. Grinspoon has taught legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) Program and is currently teaching Securities Regulation.

Margaret Hahn-Dupont
University of Pennsylvania, BA 1987
Georgetown University Law Center, JD 1991

Ms. Hahn-Dupont worked as an associate in the litigation department at Shearman & Sterling in New York upon her graduation from law school. In 1994 and 1995, she served as the law clerk to United States District Court Judge Denny Chin in the Southern District of New York. Following her clerkship, she taught at Fordham University School of Law in both the JD and LL.M. programs, in the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law, and at Brooklyn Law School. Ms. Hahn-DuPont teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Services in Social Context program. 

Kathy-Ann K. Hart
University of West Florida, BA 1988
Harvard University, JD 2003

Ms. Hart is an associate in the Boston office of Ropes & Gray, where she handles SEC filings, pro bono work and recruits for the firm. She teaches Legislation.

Jessica D. Hedges
Boston College, BA 1994
Northeastern University, JD 1999

Ms. Hedges is a founding partner of the firm Hedges & Tumposky, where her practice focuses on criminal defense and civil rights litigation. Her criminal practice consists of representing individuals charged with a wide variety of crimes in state and federal court. Her civil rights practice concentrates in police misconduct litigation. She started her career as a law clerk for the Massachusetts Superior Clerk. She has trained in restorative theory and methods at the International Institute for Restorative Justice. She also teaches in the Sociology Department at Boston College, where she has taught “Studies in Crime and Social Justice” for the past nine years. She has lectured on criminal defense and police misconduct in various professional trainings and panels. She teaches the Criminal Advocacy Clinic. 

Honorable Geraldine Hines
Tougaloo College, BA 1968
University of Wisconsin, JD 1971

Judge Hines is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. She began her legal career as a staff attorney with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute in 1971, after graduating from University of Wisconsin Law School. She later served as a public defender with the Roxbury Defenders, then entered the private practice of law in 1982. She has also served on the Judicial Nominating Council and the Steering Committee of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She has been an adjunct professor at the School of Law since 1980; she teaches Criminal Trial Practice.

York University, BA 1978
University of California, San Diego, MA/PhD 1985
Boston University, JD 1995

Ms. Illingworth is a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and the Ethics Committee of the Mount Auburn Hospital, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School. She has written two books, AIDS and the Good Society (Routledge 1991) and Trusting Medicine: The Ethics of Managed Care (under review); she co-edited, with Professor Wendy Parmet, a textbook, Ethical Health Care (Prentice Hall, 2005). She is an associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University, where she teaches courses in medical and business ethics, bioethics, and health policy and law. At the law school she teaches Bioethics and the Law.

Michael Joyce
College of the Holy Cross, BA 1995
Boston College, JD 2002

After graduating from law school, Mr. served as a clerk for justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court. He then joined the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office where he served as a member of its Gang Unit. Since August of 2007, Mr. Joyce has served as a civil rights attorney for the US Department of Education, where he investigates claims of discrimination based on gender, race, national origin, age and disability. He teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) Program. 

Honorable R. Marc Kantrowitz
Ohio University, BA 1972, MA 1974
University of Toledo, JD 1978

Judge Kantrowitz is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Prior to assuming his duties on the bench, he served as an associate justice on the Juvenile Court for five years. Judge Kantrowitz started his legal career in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, serving as an assistant district attorney for six years. Upon leaving, he entered private practice, concentrating in criminal and civil litigation, for over a decade. Throughout his career, he tried hundreds of cases. He has also been published extensively. He teaches Criminal Trial Practice.

Michael Keating
Williams College, BA
Harvard University, LLB

Mr. Keating is the principal trial attorney at Foley Hoag in Boston and is chairman of the Litigation Department. He represents corporate and individual litigants in a range of complex defense litigation in both federal and state court. He served as a law clerk to both Associate Justice Francis J. Quirico of the Massachusetts Superior Court and  Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. of the US District Court for Massachusetts. In 2003 and 2004 he was ranked by Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers as Massachusetts' leading general commercial litigator. He teaches Civil Trial Practice.

Nancy Kelly
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, BA
Antioch University, MEd
Northeastern University, JD 1984

Ms. Kelly is managing attorney in the immigration unit at Greater Boston Legal Services. She is also a clinical instructor for the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. She teaches Refugee and Asylum Law.

Mary E. Landergan
Wellesley College, AB 1978
University College, Irelan, MA 1979
Columbia University, JD 1982

Ms. Landergan, of counsel to Rich May, concentrates on corporate and intellectual property matters. Ms. Landergan has practiced in international law, general commercial litigation, bankruptcy, constitutional law, civil rights and entertainment law. She has worked in the legal departments at CBS and ABC and an international New York-based law firm. She has provided legal and strategic consulting services for various clients in the media/entertainment industry in the areas of intellectual property, media law, contract negotiation and drafting, employment law, first amendment and pre-broadcast libel review. In addition, Ms. Landergan has conducted seminars on sexual harassment. She teaches Entertainment Law and First Amendment Law.

John LaPlante
Princeton University, BA 1993
Cornell Law School, JD/LLM 2002

Mr. LaPlante is a practicing attorney in the Boston office of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP, a national law firm known for its trail advocacy. Mr. LaPlante's practice focuses on complex civil litigation, with a primary emphasis on intellectual property litigation. He also has experience representing insurers in high value propery losses, as well as both small and medium sized corporations in contract and labor disputes. He has represented clients on a pro bono basis in immigration, landlord/tenant, and domestic relations matters. Prior to joining Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Mr. LaPlante worked as an attorney for two years at another large Boston firm, and, before becoming an attorney, taught English and writing at secondary schools located in Europe and the United States. Mr. LaPlante teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program.

Neil T.  Leifer
Clark University, AB, 1976
Northeastern University, JD 1981

Mr. Leifer was a partner at Thornton & Naumes, LLP, where he practiced civil litigation from 1983 until 2011, specializing in occupational and children’s environmental health. He served as special assistant attorney general from 1995 until 1999 in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Philip Morris, et al and in 1995 was appointed to the Governor’s Advisory Commission on the Prevention of Childhood Lead Poisoning. He retired from his law practice in 2011 to work in public health on the problem of child obesity.

Carol Mallory
Bowdoin College, BA 1990
Northeastern University, JD 1996

Ms. Mallory is an attorney in private practice. Her practice consists primarily of performing legal research and writing projects under contract to other attorneys. Prior to starting her own practice, Ms. Mallory worked for six years as a staff attorney in the Employment Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services. She began her career as a law clerk for Justice Gerald Gillerman of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and later worked as a litigation associate at the firm of Stern, Shapiro, Weissberg & Garin. She has taught the Poverty Law Clinic and currently teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program. 

Rachel Munoz
Grinnell College, BA 1998
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 2003
Northeastern University, JD 2006

Ms. Munoz is an associate with Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP.  She specializes in labor law and employment law. She teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) Program.

Anne-Marie Ofori-Acquaah
University of Ghana, Legon, LL.B. 1980
Yale Law School, LL.M. 1983
New York University, LL.M. 1984
University of Toronto Faculty of Law, S.JD 1987

Ms. Ofori-Acquaah is the associate labor counsel for the Massachusetts Trial Court. She represents the Trial Court at arbitration hearings, in employment matters before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Division of Labor Relations, the Division of Unemployment Assistance and in the trial courts. Prior to joining the Trial Court, she was the special assistant general counsel for the Department of Mental Health, where she was responsible for representing the Department at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, and also handled a variety of functions such as reviewing client appeals and drafting regulations. She teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) Program. 

Dyane O'Leary
Villanova University
Suffolk University School of Law 

Ms. O'Leary is a senior associate in the Litigation/Controversy Department at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Boston. Her practice focuses primarily on intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. She clerked with the Honorable William E. Smith in the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island. She is also an adjunct instructor of legal research and writing at New England Law|Boston and a member of the Legal Writing Institute. She teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) Program. 

Keith R. Osher
University of Illinois, BS 1970
University of Chicago, MBA 1973

Mr. Osher is a principal at Osher & Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm focusing on providing financial analysis and planning to small and medium size organizations. Prior to his current position, he served as vice president of finance for a leading retail chain. As a financial analyst for a bipartisan commission of the Illinois legislature, he performed program evaluations and economic forecasts. He teaches Quantitative Methods.

Michael Pezza Jr.
Colgate University, BA 1977
Case Western University, JD 1980

Mr. Pezza is a lawyer and mediator in Boston. In his law practice, Law Office of Michael A. Pezza Jr., he focuses on civil litigation and media and First Amendment law. Mr. Pezza provides mediation and other dispute resolution services through Boston Dispute Resolution Services, which he founded in 2008 as an adjunct to his law practice. Mr. Pezza is panel counsel for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts, and regularly provides pro bono mediation services through a court mediation program in the Boston area. He teaches Entertainment Law.

Jonathan Rankin
Boston University, BA 1991
Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, MS 1997
Northeastern University, JD 2004

Mr. Rankin heads his own law office, where he specializes in animal welfare and protection. He teaches Animal Law.

Dean Richlin
Wesleyan University, BA 1974
Boston University, JD 1978

Mr. Richlin is a partner with the Boston firm of Foley Hoag. He previously served as first assistant attorney general for the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mr. Richlin teaches the Role of the State Attorney General.

Arnold R. Rosenfeld
Bowdoin College, AB 1962
Boston College, JD 1967

Mr. Rosenfeld currently is senior counsel at Sarrouf Law. He previously was of counsel at K&L Gates. He also has served as the chief bar counsel of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers and as the chief counsel of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, the state public defender organization. Mr. Rosenfeld is an experienced civil and criminal trial and appellate lawyer who presently focuses his practice on representing lawyers and law firms on legal ethical matters, including representing respondents in bar disciplinary cases, and as an expert on the law of lawyering including the Rules of Professional Conduct, conflict of interest and attorney-client privilege, as well as in complex civil and criminal cases in the state and federal courts. He teaches Professional Responsibility.

Stuart Rossman
University of Michigan, BA 1975
Harvard University, JD 1978

Mr. Rossman is an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center, where he directs the organization's litigation efforts. He has 13 years of trial experience as a private attorney and served as chief of the Trial Division and Business and Labor Protection Bureau at the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office. He also founded and chaired the Attorney General's Abandoned Housing Task Force, a project created to assist municipalities and community groups in seeking solutions to abandoned properties. He teaches Civil Trial Practice.

Roberta L. Rubin
Brown University, BA 1982
Harvard University, JD 1987

Ms. Rubin's primary legal practice is in the areas of housing and community development, with a particular focus on urban redevelopment. She practices law with Klein Hornig LLP, a firm whose practice is dedicated to developing and preserving affordable housing. She has worked at the Boston firm Brown, Rudnick, Feed, & Gesmer and served as deputy general counsel of The Community Builders, Inc. She teaches Affordable Housing.

Laurie M. Ruskin
University of Michigan, AB 1976
Harvard University, EdM 1981
Northeastern University School of Law, JD 1995 

Ms. Ruskin is of counsel to Sweder & Ross, LLP. Her legal experience includes business litigation, media and First Amendment law, and intellectual property law. She teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) Program.

Amy Remus Scott
Harvard College, AB 1995
University of Michigan, JD 2000

Ms. Scott clerked for Judge Cornelia Kennedy on the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and then worked for several years as an associate in the corporate department at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston. She currently teaches in the first-year legal writing program at Boston University School of Law, and in the graduate program at the Boston University School of Management.  Ms. Scott teaches Transactional Drafting.

Debra Shopteese
Kansas State University, BS
Northeastern University, JD 1987

Ms. Shopteese is the attorney in charge of the Roxbury Defenders Unit of the Committee for Public Counsel Services. She teaches the Criminal Advocacy Clinic.

The Honorable Sabita Singh
Pennsylvania State University, BA 1987
Boston University School of Law, JD 1990

Judge Singh is an associate justice of the District Court Department of the Trial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Singh served as a federal prosecutor for the US Attorney's Office in Boston, where she specialized in human trafficking cases. She also practiced civil litigation with Bingham McCutchen. Prior to that, Judge Singh served as a state prosecutor with the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office and as a law clerk to the Justices of the Superior Court. She is also past president and founding member of the South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston and the North American South Asian Bar Association. She teaches legal research and writing in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) Program.  

Rachel Spooner
Duke University, BA 1996
Georgetown University, JD 1999

Ms. Spooner teaches the Legal Writing Workshop.

John L. Strand
Dickinson College, BA 1999
Northeastern University, JD 2002

Mr. Strand is a litigation associate in the Boston office of Wolf, Grennfield & Sacks, where he concentrates in intellectual property. He teaches Trademark Law.

Honorable Paul Troy
St. John's Seminary, BA 1965
Suffolk University, JD 1972

Judge Troy is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. He teaches Civil Trial Practice.

John E. Willshire Carrera
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, BA, MA
Northeastern University, JD

Mr. Willshire Carrera is a senior attorney int he immigration Unit at Greater Boston Legal Services and co-managing attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. He teaches Refugee and Asylum Law.

Rose Zoltek-Jick
University of Toronto, BA 1977
Osgood Hall Law School, LLB 1981
Harvard University, LLM 1986

Ms. Zoltek-Jick has taught at the School of Law for more than 20 years, specializing in criminal law and procedure, evidence, and law and psychiatry. She has also taught at Boston University School of Law and at Harvard Law School. Her academic writing has focused on statutes of limitation, cold cases, and civil lawsuits on cases of sexual abuse. She teaches Criminal Justice and Law and Psychiatry.