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Following graduation from Georgetown University Law Center, Clinical Professor of Law Emerita Deborah B. McGregor engaged in private practice in Boulder, Colorado, where she focused primarily on probate law and estate planning. Thereafter, she taught legal writing for three years at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law before joining the IU faculty in Indianapolis. As Assistant Director of the Legal Writing Program at IU, she developed the academic support program, the first writing course for LL.M. students, and a summer legal process course for J.D. and M.J. students.

In 2013, Prof. McGregor became director of the law school’s new Master of Jurisprudence Program, designed for students whose career focus was not law, but who would benefit from learning about the law. The first class matriculated in the summer of 2014.

Prof. McGregor has been an active participant in the national Legal Writing Institute (LWI), presenting at both national and regional conferences over the last 27 years. Prof. McGregor collaborated on a week-long teaching workshop through the Rule of Law Initiative for Ukrainian law professors. She taught Legal Writing and Analysis in Hangzhou and Shanghai, China, and Introduction to the American Legal System in Alexandria, Egypt.

Prof. McGregor is the only legal writing professor to receive the student bar association's Best New Teacher’s Award. She has also received the Black Law Student Association’s John Morton-Finney-Brenda Elise Bowles Award twice, the Teaching Excellence Recognition Award twice, and the Indiana University Trustee’s Teaching Award.