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  • Richard K.  Neumann
  • Sheila Simon
  • Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne
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384 pages
Publication Date
2023-06-08
Edition
Fifth Edition
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About the authors
Richard K. Neumann
Professor of Law
Hofstra University

At Hofstra, Alexander Bickel Distinguished Professor of Law Richard K. Neumann has taught Contracts; Transactional Lawyering; International Business Transactions; Legal Writing; Civil Procedure; Legal Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation; Pretrial Litigation; Federal Courts; Trial Techniques; and clinical courses. Professor Neumann is the author or coauthor of four textbooks: Transactional Lawyering Skills; Essential Lawyering Skills (with Prof. Krieger); Legal Writing (with Prof. J. Lyn Entrikin of the Univ. of Arkansas and Sheila Simon, Lt. Governor of Illinois); and Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing (with Prof. Kristen Tiscione of Georgetown Univ.).

His articles have appeared in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, the Journal of Legal Education, the Clinical Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, among others. He is an editorial advisor to Aspen Publishing, one of the largest publishers of law school textbooks.

He has served on several committees of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar as well as a number of ABA site inspection teams. He has been chair of the American Law Schools’ Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research; a member of the board of directors of the Legal Writing Institute; and a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. He is a frequent speaker at legal education conferences.

Sheila J. Simon

Following law school, Sheila Simon worked as a staff attorney at a legal aid clinic, the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation from 1987 to 1992, providing legal services to indigent clients. She was an associate at the firm of O'Neill Colvin in Carbondale, Illinois, from 1992 to 1994 and then served as an assistant state's attorney in Jackson County, Illinois, from 1994 to 1998, where she prosecuted DUIs and domestic battery cases. Along with several other attorneys and with the support of school faculty, Simon helped to inaugurate Southern Illinois University's law school domestic violence clinic in 1998. She worked as a clinical assistant professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law from 2000 to 2005 and was promoted to clinical associate professor in 2005. She taught both lawyering skills and family law in addition to her clinical teaching. In 2010, Simon was elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. She and her husband, Perry, have two daughters, Reilly and Brennan, and she plays banjo and bassoon in the band Loose Gravel.

Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne
Mercer University School of Law

Professor Painter-Thorne teaches Client Counseling, Evidence, Legal Writing, and Property. In addition to teaching, she has coached several moot court teams throughout her thirteen years at Mercer. She is the co-author of two books, Legal Writing, co-authored with Professors Richard K. Neumann, Jr., and Sheila Simon, and the Moot Court Workbook, co-authored with Professor Karen Sneddon.

Professor Painter-Thorne is on the executive committees of the AALS section on Property Law and the AALS section on Law and Anthropology. She is co-editor of the Law & Rhetoric eJournal and past managing editor of Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD. She served as the Legal Writing Institute’s Host School Director from 2014 to 2018.

After graduating from law school, Professor Painter-Thorne was a litigation associate at Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe in Sacramento, California. She then served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before joining the Mercer faculty in 2006. Professor Painter-Thorne is a member of the American Constitution Society, Association of Legal Writing Directors, the Legal Writing Institute, and the Society for American Law Teachers.

Professor Painter-Thorne received her J.D. (Order of the Coif) from the University of California, Davis, School of Law and her undergraduate degree with high honors in anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a member of the California State Bar.
Product Information
Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2023-06-08
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
384
Bundle: Print + eBook + Learning Assessment
9798889064268
Bundle: eBook + Learning Assessment
9798889067344
Subject
Legal Writing
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