Trial Advocacy includes the skills that attorneys use in trial proceedings, including selecting jurors, examining witnesses, and delivering opening statements and closing arguments.
Constance A. Browne
Constance Browne came to Boston University School of Law in 1982 as an instructor in the First-Year Writing Program and joined the full-time faculty of the clinical programs in 1989. As an associate professor in the Civil Litigation & Justice Program, she supervises students who represent clients in special education, unemployment, divorce, disability and housing […]
Mary C. Connaughton
Mary Connaughton, a clinical faculty member in the Civil Litigation & Justice Program since 1993, teaches courses in lawyering skills, trial advocacy, and evidence law. She also supervises students in administrative, state and federal court hearings in social security disability, unemployment compensation, divorce and housing disputes.
Shira M. Diner
Shira Diner is a Lecturer and Clinical Instructor in the Defender Clinic at Boston University School of Law. Prior to her work at BU, she was the Director of Associate Development and Recruitment at Todd & Weld LLP. Previously, she served as a public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) for 17 […]
Angelo Petrigh
Angelo Petrigh teaches the Defender Clinic in BU’s Criminal Law Clinical Program. Prior to joining Boston University, he was the Training Director in the Bronx Defenders’ Criminal Defense Practice. In his nearly twelve years of experience, he handled a wide-ranging caseload from low level misdemeanors to homicides. He was responsible for the training and development […]
Jarrod F. Reich
Jarrod Reich is Senior Lecturer in the Lawyering program. He most recently served as a Professor of Legal Writing at the University of Miami School of Law, where he taught first-year and upper-level writing courses and evidence. Previously, he served on the faculties of Georgetown University Law Center and Florida State University College of Law, […]
Rachel Rosenberg
Rachel Rosenberg joins BU Law as a Lecturer to co-teach the Mental Health Litigation Practicum. Rachel began her career in public service by representing court-involved students in school discipline and special education matters as a Skadden Fellow at the EdLaw Project. She then joined the Public Defender Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services […]
David Rossman
Since 1978, David Rossman has served as director of BU Law’s Criminal Law Clinical Programs. He teaches courses in criminal procedure, criminal trial practice, criminal trial advocacy and issues in criminal justice. “Working with young lawyers on actual litigation is immensely satisfying,” he says. “I’m always energized by the new ways in which they attack problems that […]
Brian A. Wilson
Brian Wilson (’96) is a senior lecturer and clinical instructor in the Criminal Law Clinical Program and supervisor of its Prosecutor Clinic, in which third-year students prosecute felony and misdemeanor cases in the Quincy District Court under his supervision. His students serve as the lead prosecutors on every aspect of their cases, including developing strategy, […]