Experience

• GT Educational Services

  Law Professor and Educational Services Expert

  GT Educational Services, LLC

• University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law

  Associate Professor and Legal Writing Program Director

  designing a practice-ready curriculum to develop students’ skills in basic writing, legal writing, legal research, case analysis, case synthesis, rule application, statutory interpretation, constitutional analysis, test-taking, client interviewing, client counseling, client negotiations, legal citation, professionalism, and written and oral advocacy. Effectively managed teaching, administrative, and service duties as the sole full-time professor in a primarily adjunct-staffed writing program that provided Day and Evening Program students with three semesters of required legal writing and analysis courses and additional semesters of elective legal writing and analysis courses. Hired and trained approximately fifteen (15) adjunct professors and ten (10) teaching assistants on a yearly basis to ensure that students received quality instruction in all legal writing courses. Taught Lawyering Process course (required two-semester, first-year legal writing course) that emphasized legal research, writing, analysis, and advocacy skills necessary to prepare office memoranda, client letters, client interviews, client counseling, negotiation proceedings, trial briefs, and courtroom oral arguments. Taught Appellate Litigation course (required, upper-level appellate advocacy course) that emphasized legal research and persuasive written and oral advocacy skills required for preparation of appellate briefs and appellate oral arguments. Taught Advanced Legal Writing course (elective, upper-level legal writing course) that taught students the systematic process of writing scholarly papers for seminar classes and law journals. Taught Special Problems in Criminal Law and Criminal procedure course that enhanced students’ writing, analytical, and test-taking skills through the use of criminal law and criminal procedure problems and writing exercises. Held bi-weekly team meetings to furnish adjunct professors with training and materials for effective implementation of curriculum.

• Solo Practitioner

  Attorney

  Wills and Estate Planning

• Prairie View A&M University College of Business

  Adjunct Profesor of Business Law

  Teach business law survey courses (beginning-level and upper-level courses) with an emphasis on areas of the law that comprise the legal environment of business, such as constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, property law, torts, intellectual property, cyberlaw, labor law, employment law, employment discrimination, agency, partnership, corporations, business organization formation, Uniform Commercial Code and sales, negotiable instruments, secured transactions, bankruptcy, and civil procedure. Design curriculum, exercises, and examinations that mirror projects and duties in the business industry to build students’ practical skills and prepare them for the global business industry. Combine lecture-driven and application-driven pedagogical techniques in a business law context to provide students with knowledge and skills essential to their success in the global arena. Utilize hands-on learning exercises to help students concretize abstract legal concepts applied in the business industry to identify, preempt, and resolve complex, business-related legal issues like an informed businessperson or attorney. Teach students the processes of legal reasoning and critical thinking to equip students with the problem-solving skills necessary to thrive in the global business arena. Inculcate students with a strong sense of ethical, social, and professional responsibility that will remain intact upon students’ graduation and entry into the global business industry. Develop students’ oral presentation skills and professionalism with practical exercises and group presentations.

• Texas A&M University-San Antonio

  Professor of Business Law

  I teach business law and employment law courses to undergraduate and graduate students in face-to-face, online, and hybrid course formats.