A Passion for Student Learning and Well-being
Professor Lisa Freudenheim joins BU Law with over 25 years of experience guiding student success both inside and outside the classroom.
A Passion for Student Learning and Well-being
Professor Lisa Freudenheim joins BU Law with over 25 years of experience guiding student success both inside and outside the classroom.
Boston University School of Law is pleased to welcome Lisa Freudenheim as associate professor and director of the Academic Enrichment Program. She joins BU Law after 13 years at New England Law | Boston, where she most recently served as dean and previously held positions as associate dean, co-dean, and professor and director of the academic excellence program.
Professor Freudenheim has devoted her career in legal education to teaching and counseling students, with a focus on promoting the fundamental skills for success and well-being in law school and in the legal profession. Before joining New England Law | Boston, she was a member of the Academic Support Program faculty at Suffolk University Law School, a visiting professor at Boston College Law School, and a Joshua A. Guberman teaching fellow at Brandeis University. At BU Law, she will support student success across all class levels, from orientation to bar passage, through programing and individual guidance.
Prior to her tenure in legal education, Freudenheim practiced as an employment law attorney at Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman in Connecticut; Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts in New York; and Hinckley, Allen & Snyder in Massachusetts. She has twenty-five years of experience as a consultant and advisor to major law firms and corporations nationwide in designing and presenting professional development training focusing on legal writing and analysis.
I have taught, counseled, and mentored students for over 25 years, and seen the evolution of the field of academic support to a place where student learning and well-being has become central to our concept of student success. I am dedicated to developing and evolving the academic enrichment resources at BU Law to support this amazing group of future lawyers.
“After practicing as an employment litigator for 4 years, I realized my passion was being in the classroom working with students to develop the core skills needed to achieve their potential in law school and beyond,” she says.
Professor Freudenheim’s advice for students is to “strive for progress, not perfection!” She focuses her teaching on academic support throughout the curriculum. While she specializes in legal writing, legal practice skills, client counseling, and bar preparation, Freudenheim has also taught courses in contracts, employment law, and evidence.
“I have taught, counseled, and mentored students for over 25 years, and seen the evolution of the field of academic support to a place where student learning and well-being has become central to our concept of student success” Freudenheim shares. “I am dedicated to developing and evolving the academic enrichment resources at BU Law to support this amazing group of future lawyers.”
Freudenheim earned her BA in Political Science cum laude from Tufts University and her JD from New York University Law School. Outside of her legal career, Professor Freudenheim is an avid scuba diver, runner, and swimmer, and has competed in over 25 triathlons.