Claire Bishop Abely

Claire Abely is the Director of the Lawyering Program, where she has taught Lawyering Skills to 1L students full-time since the program’s inception in 2017. She also teaches Persuasive Writing and the Lawyering Fellows seminar. Claire is deeply involved in the public interest community at BU Law, serving as the advisor and faculty mentor for […]

Marni Goldstein Caputo

Marni Goldstein Caputo is a Senior Lecturer in the Lawyering Program, where she has taught Lawyering Skills to 1L students full-time since the program’s inception in 2017. She also teaches Introduction to American Law to LL.M. students and a seminar on capital punishment in the United States. She has also taught as an adjunct at […]

Laura E. D’Amato

Laura D’Amato teaches first-year Lawyering Skills and upper-class Persuasive Writing at BU Law. She is the 2023 recipient of the Michael Melton Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2024, she completed a two-year rotation as director of the Lawyering Program. Prior to joining BU Law, Laura was a litigation partner at Goulston & Storrs PC, where […]

Cody Jacobs

Cody Jacobs joined the Lawyering Program at Boston University School of Law in 2019. He has been teaching legal research and writing for four years, most recently as a visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and prior to that as an Abraham L. Friedman Fellow at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law where he […]

Kathleen Luz

Kathleen Luz is a Senior Lecturer in the Lawyering Program, where she has taught Lawyering Skills to 1L students full-time since the program’s inception in 2017. Prior to joining BU Law full-time, she taught as an adjunct at both BU Law and BU’s Questrom School of Business. Her research interests include skills-based teaching pedagogy, learning […]

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, […]