Lawyering Skills Full Time Faculty

Professor Cynthia Bond

Visiting Professor
B.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Cornell University
Law Degree, Cornell Law School

Cynthia D. Bond has joined the Lawyers Skills faculty as a visiting professor.  She will be teaching lawyering skills and “Law and Film.”

Bond comes to John Marshall from Cornell Law School where from 1999 through June 2004 she taught first year legal analysis, writing and research, and also an upper-class interdisciplinary seminar “Theories of Law, Theories of Film” which addressed cultural representations of law and lawyers from various critical perspectives.

Before her work at Cornell, Bond was solo practitioner for 18 months focusing on Family Court matters, and an associate at True, Walsh & Miller from 1995 to 1999 practicing civil litigation, domestic relations, real estate and employment law.  She received the American Bar Association Journal Ross Essay Award in 1998.

Bond also was a volunteer for Neighborhood Legal Services from 1993 to 1995, and received the 1995 Tompkins County Bar Association Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Legal Services.  

Professor Maureen Collins

Clinical Professor of Legal Writing
B.A., Northwestern University
J.D., DePaul University College of Law

After graduating from law school, where she was an editor of the DePaul Law Review, Maureen Collins was an attorney with Sidley & Austin in Chicago (1985­–1990). Her practice focused on trademark, copyright, and advertising law. Subsequently, she joined the faculty at DePaul University College of Law as a legal writing instructor and became director of legal writing in 1993. Professor Collins was at DePaul for 15 years and came to John Marshall as a visiting professor in 2005. For more than 10 years, she has spent her summers as a research and writing consultant at Sidley Austin, working with the firm’s summer associates. Professor Collins wrote a monthly column, “Legal Communications,” for the Illinois Bar Journal from 1995–2004. She teaches Lawyering Skills, including a special section for students interested in intellectual property law.

Professor Joel Cornwell

B.A., Duquesne University 
M.Div., Yale University 
J.D., Saint Louis University
M.L.A., University of Chicago

Having cultivated an interest in analytical philosophy during his undergraduate  and graduate studies, Professor Cornwell has focused his legal scholarship on issues of law and language.  He formerly served as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Moses W. Harrison, former Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court,  who was then sitting on the Illinois Appellate Court, Fifth District.  Professor Cornwell has served as program chair for the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, and has been  a respondent at recent John Marshall conferences on Law and Language and on Animal Rights. Professor Cornwell joined the faculty in 1985.  He teaches Lawyering Skills, Property, Philosophy of Law, Psychology and the Law, and Religion and the Law.

Professor Sonia Green

B.A., University of Chicago
M.A., University of Chicago
J.S., University of Chicago

While at the University of Chicago Law School, Green was awarded a Ford Foundation Scholarship to study at the Hague Academy of International Law. She practiced in insurance and commercial litigation with McCullough, Campbell & Lane, and Bates Meckler Bulger & Tilson. Before joining the John Marshall faculty, Green was assistant professor of legal research and writing at IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law, and she has taught legal writing as an adjunct instructor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.  Green, who emigrated from Russia to the United States as a young girl, has examined how legislatures and courts create and define laws about language use.  Her article “Language of Lullabies: the Russification and de-Russifaction of the Baltic States” was published in 1997 by the Michigan Journal of International Law, and she now is researching bilingualism and English-only laws in the United States.

Professor Joanne Hodge

Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A., Swarthmore College
J.D., Northwestern Law School

After law school, Joanne Simboli Hodge clerked for the Honorable Luther Swygert on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  From 1986–1998 she was an assistant corporation counsel with the City of Chicago Law Department, working in the Appeals Division (1986–89), the Labor and Personnel Division (1989–93), and the Labor Division (1993–98). Professor Hodge then spent a year as an Administrative Law Judge with the Illinois Human Rights Commission. From 2000–2003, she was an associate with Chicago based firm Neal Murdock & LeRoy, where she litigated, consulted, and mediated on employment and labor matters. Immediately prior to coming to John Marshall, Professor Hodge was a writing specialist at the DePaul University College of Law, where she created a Writers’ Workshop for 1Ls, taught legal writing, and supervised the teaching assistants in the writing center. Professor Hodge is a visiting assistant professor for the 2005–2006 academic year and will teach Lawyering Skills, as well as Contracts II.

Professor Ardath Hamann

B.S., Purdue University 
J.D., College of William and Mary 
LL.M., The John Marshall Law
   School

Professor Hamann’s area of specialization  is antitrust law.  For six years after graduation from law school, she was a member of the Antitrust Division of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office,  litigating criminal, civil penalty, and civil treble damage actions in both state and federal courts. In recent years she has presented papers on current developments in United States antitrust law at conferences in Prague and Brno in the  Czech Republic; she has also conducted training workshops on  legal drafting for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  From 1987 until 2001, Professor Hamann was Associate Director and Director of John Marshall’s nationally recognized moot court program.  She continues to coach the Cardozo/BMI Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition team.  Professor Hamann’s major outside interest is counseling charitable organizations.  She has advised  and served on the boards of a number of religious and educational institutions.  Professor Hamann joined the faculty in 1984.   She teaches Antitrust, Corporations, Estates and Trusts, and Lawyering Skills.

Professor Muareen Straub Kordesh

B.A., Kalamazoo College 
M.A., Indiana University–Bloomington 
J.D., Indiana University–Bloomington

Maureen Straub Kordesh earned her J.D. from Indiana University–Bloomington,  where she was a member of the Indiana  Law Journal.  She represented the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of General Services in all eminent domain matters, some public works construction, and real estate matters including licensing, leasing, and acquisition and sale of Commonwealth-owned real property.  In 1991 she joined the faculty at Widener University School of Law, where she directed the writing program and taught legal writing, property, and land-use planning.  One of her articles, published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, was a finalist for best land use planning article of 1996.  She has run workshops on drafting for HUD housing discrimination investigators, and has written articles and made numerous presentations to legal writing professionals, clinicians, and attorneys on the practical and pedagogical issues of legal writing, lawyering skills, and the bar exam.  She is a former President of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and a current member of the Board of the Legal Writing Institute.  She has also served as an assistant editor for the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute.  Professor Kordesh joined the John Marshall faculty in 1996.  She is the Director of the Lawyering Skills Program and teaches Lawyering Skills and Property.

Professor Samuel Olken

A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard University
J.D., Emory University

Prior to joining the John Marshall faculty, Professor Olken practiced business law with a small Boston law firm. He also served as a litigation associate with large firms in Los Angeles and New Jersey.  Professor Olken’s primary research interests are constitutional history and judicial biography. He has written articles about Chief Justices John Marshall and Charles Evans Hughes, and most recently, Associate Justice George Sutherland. In addition, Professor Olken has written extensively about the New Deal Court, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century economic regulation, judicial review, and the First Amendment. In 1991, the Supreme Court Historical Society awarded him its prestigious Hughes-Gossett Prize for outstanding historical scholarship. Professor Olken was the chair of the “Symposium on Chief Justice John Marshall and the United States Supreme Court: 1801-1835,” hosted April 2000 by the law school. He was chair of the fall 2003 symposium, “Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review: Legitimacy, Tyranny, and Democracy.” Professor Olken joined the faculty in 1989. He teaches American Legal History, Constitutional Law I and II, and Lawyering Skills.

Professor David Sorkin

B.A., with distinction, Indiana University, Phi Beta Kappa 
B.S.Bus., with high distinction, Indiana University, Beta Gamma Sigma 
M.L.S., Indiana University 
J.D., cum laude, Harvard University

Prior to joining the John Marshall faculty  in 1991, Professor Sorkin clerked for a state appellate judge in Indiana and taught at Indiana University School of Law–Indianapolis. He has written and spoken widely about Internet policy, privacy, consumer protection issues, and communication skills. In 1994, he created John Marshall’s original Web site, and the following year he began teaching one of the first law school courses on cyberspace law.  In 2001 and 2002, Professor Sorkin taught courses in privacy and cyberlaw at Southern Cross University’s Byron Bay Summer Law School in Australia. In 2002, he participated in conferences on Internet governance and cyberliberties in Sydney, Australia; spoke about spam for the National Conference of State Legislatures in New Orleans; presented the keynote address at a conference on spam regulation held in Kyoto, Japan; and organized a program on spam at John Marshall. His Web sites on Spam Laws and other topics are frequently cited as authorities.  Professor Sorkin teaches Consumer Law, Current Issues in Information Technology Law, Cyberspace Law, Information Law & Policy, Introduction to Information Technology Law, Lawyering Skills, and Transborder Data Flow

Professor Julie Spanbauer

B.S., cum laude, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
J.D., Valparaiso University
LL.M., Northwestern University

Professor Spanbauer served as a law clerk to the Hon. Andrew P. Rodovich, United States Magistrate Judge, and the Hon. James T. Moody, United States District Court Judge, after graduating from law school.  Since joining the John Marshall faculty in 1990, she has published numerous articles in the areas of employment discrimination, constitutional law, and women’s issues.  Professor Spanbauer has organized and served as a panel moderator at diverse conferences involving discrimination issues, issues unique to students for whom English is a second language, and legal writing issues.  She has presented lectures in China and at Trinity College in Ireland.  Professor Spanbauer has served as the Program Director for two programs sponsored by the International Law Institute in Washington, D.C.  These programs prepare international LL.M. students to enter law schools throughout the United States.  She has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Battered Women and their Children, a not-for-profit organization providing counseling, advocacy, and education services for abused women and their children.  Professor Spanbauer currently serves as Director of the Special Admissions Program at John Marshall, the Summer College for Assessing Legal Education Skills (SCALES).  She teaches Employment Discrimination, Contracts, and Lawyering Skills.

Professor Mark Wojcik

B.A., cum laude, Bradley University 
J.D., cum laude, The John Marshall Law School 
LL.M., New York University

Professor Wojcik is a home-grown product of The John Marshall Law School, where he was a law review editor and moot court competitor.  He graduated with honors and clerked for judges on the Nebraska Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of International Trade.  He practiced customs and international trade law in New York and later served as court counsel for the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau.  He has taught classes in China, Lithuania, Mexico, and Singapore, and has lectured in Canada, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, and Japan.  He has held various leadership roles in the American Bar Association Section of International Law, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Legal Writing Institute, the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, and the Association of American Law Schools’ Sections on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers, International Legal Exchange, and North American Cooperation.  He is the author and co-author of numerous law review articles, book chapters, and books, including the first casebook on AIDS Law, a legal writing text for non-native speakers of English, and Illinois Legal Research.  Professor Wojcik joined the faculty in 1992.  He teaches Lawyering Skills, Public International Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights, International Business Transactions, Torts, and a seminar course on Human Rights in a Changing Society.

PART TIME FACULTY

Lawyering Skills I

Claire Toomey Durkin, Thomas Keefe

Lawyering Skills II

Tara Taylor Bernstein, Deborah L. Borman, Klint L. Bruno, Alan S. Dorn, Carl L. Evans, Steven Gilman, Jennifer P. Irmen, Andrew W. Lambertson, Anthony J. Longo, James Manak, Michael J. Meyer, Ellen J. O'Rourke, Evelyn R. Pacino-Sanguinetti, Eric S. Pruitt,  Adam L. Saper, Brendan Shiller, Steven R. Splitt, David W. Van de Burgt, Jerome Wiener, Daniel G. Wills

Herzog

Deborah L. Borman, Kelly A. Burden, Karen A. Covy, Dennis J. DeCaro, James J. Dvorak, Lester W. Finkle, Nancy B. Jack, Ronak T. Joshi, Stephen A. Kubiatowski, L. Anita Richardson, Anthony M. Sciara, Daniel G. Wills, Joanne Yasus, Daniel G. Wills, Gail Downer Zwemke

Drafting

Alan S. Dorn, Bruce Farrel Dorn,Mark Dunaevsky,  Nathan F. Fahrer, Patricia H. Gill, Tania K. Gray, Danya A. Grunyk, Kevin M. Hull, Elizabeth M. Krepps, Andrew W. Lambertson, Juan C. Linares, Daniel E. May, Shelmerdeane A. Miller, Eliot Pollock, Gregory M. Reiter, David A. Rutter, Eugene J. Schiltz