林肯纪念堂 University 邓肯法学院 (LMU Law) announces the hiring of 劳拉·莫特 as an Assistant Professor of Law and 约翰·波尔 and Celsy约翰逊 as Visiting Assistant Professors of Law for the 2024-2025 academic year.
“We are so excited to have these three new faculty colleagues join us in our mission to educate and train resilient lawyers who value and display excellence and are committed to serving their clients, 他们的社区, 以及法律行业,” said LMU Law Vice President and Dean Matt Lyon. “Their years of experience in both teaching and practice will greatly enrich our law school community.”
劳拉·莫特
Mott joins LMU Law from CUNY School of Law in New York, where she served as Director of the Academic Skills Center for the Evening 1L Program. She has presented at numerous academic conferences and published on best practices in academic support and environmental issues. 莫特手里拿着一个J.D. from CUNY School of Law and an LL.M 以优等成绩毕业者 in Environmental Law from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. 教学前, she worked in environmental organizations and in New York City housing court and managed large-scale discovery projects for complex civil litigation matters. She will teach Contracts and Sales I in the Fall 2024 semester.
“I am thrilled to be joining the faculty at LMU and am excited to bring an end-to-end perspective on the connectivity between first-year building blocks and bar success to the Contracts classroom. I look forward to meeting and working with the incoming 1L class as they begin their law school journey,莫特说。.
约翰·波尔
Poore joins LMU Law after spending nearly 15 years as a prosecutor in Southern California. 在他担任检察官期间, he conducted over 40 jury trials, including serious and violent felonies, 毒品, 帮派, sexual assault and hate crime cases. Poore managed 15 wiretap investigations involving 帮派, 毒品, 人口贩卖, and homicide investigations while assigned to various state, 地方和联邦特遣部队. 他赢得了他的J。.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. 在法学院之前, Poore served as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps and completed multiple overseas deployments to Asia and the Middle East. He will teach Criminal Law in the Fall 2024 semester.
“I am looking forward to creating a positive and engaging learning environment in the classroom to prepare the next generation of LMU Law graduates for a meaningful and fulfilling career in law,”普尔说。.
Celsy约翰逊
Johnson joins LMU Law’s academic and bar success department from the practice of law, most recently as a solo practitioner and 以前的ly as an attorney at Held Law Firm in the areas of family law, 青少年法律, 还有遗产规划. 在那之前, Johnson was in-house counsel at Cellular Sales and focused primarily on commercial real estate transactions. 她拿着一个J。.D from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she was the Executive Editor of the Tennessee Journal of Race Gender and Social Justice. In 2023, the Tennessee Supreme Court awarded Johnson the Pro Bono Award for her service to the community. As an adjunct professor at LMU Law, she created and taught a class on the Multistate Performance Test portion of the Uniform Bar Exam. Johnson will teach Multistate Essay Exam Skills I and Legal Practice Skills this Fall 2024 semester.
"I am excited to join the faculty full-time and further contribute to the academic and bar success team. I look forward to developing the students' skills necessary both for practice and for the bar exam,约翰逊说.
The 林肯纪念堂 University 邓肯法学院 is located in Knoxville’s Historic Old City Hall Building. LMU Law is an integral part of LMU’s value-based learning community and is dedicated to preparing the next generation of lawyers to provide sound legal service in the often-underserved region of Appalachia and beyond. For more information about LMU Law, call 865.545.5303或访问我们的网站Law.LMUnet.edu.
