Jarrod F. Reich

Biography

Jarrod Reich is a Senior Lecturer in the Lawyering program.  In addition to teaching Lawyering Skills, Professor Reich also teaches a Mock Trial Competitions course and a Well-Being and the Law seminar. With nearly two decades of teaching experience, he previously served on the faculties of the University of Miami School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and Florida State University College of Law, as well as the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law as an adjunct professor, teaching courses in legal writing, appellate advocacy, evidence, alternative dispute resolution, and seminars for judicial externs, in-house counsel externs, and legal writing fellows. Throughout his teaching career, he has served as a coach of moot court and mock trial teams and as the faculty advisor to several student organizations, and while at Florida State, he received the Open Door Teaching Award for his mentorship and advising work.

Professor Reich focuses his scholarship on lawyer and law student well-being: among other things, his scholarship has appeared in the Villanova Law Review and Harvard Law School’s The Practice; he is a member of the Institute for Well-Being in Law’s Advisory Board of Directors and the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Lawyer Well-Being; he served as a contributing writer and advisor to NYSBA’s Task Force Report on Lawyer Well-Being; and he presents on well-being topics both nationally and internationally. In 2020, he served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ award-winning Section on Balance and Well-Being in Legal Education. He also writes and presents on legal writing and is the co-author (with Stephen Armstrong and Timothy Terrell) of Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer’s Guide to Effective Writing and Editing (4th ed. 2021), the premier legal writing textbook for practitioners, and is the lead author of a forthcoming law school edition of the book.

Prior to teaching full-time, Professor Reich was Counsel at the firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, where he focused his practice on complex litigation. During his tenure there, he represented a wide range of clients in domestic and international matters—most notably, he was on the team representing the plaintiffs in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the historic case for marriage equality—and briefs on which he worked while at the firm currently appear in several legal writing textbooks. He also clerked for Judge William J. Haynes, Jr. (ret.) of the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, and graduated Order of the Coif from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he was managing editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review.