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During law school, Maureen Straub Kordesh was a member of
the Indiana
Law Journal. After graduation, she represented the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania Department of General Services. 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 led workshops on drafting for
HUD housing discrimination investigators and has written articles and made
numerous presentations to legal professionals on the practical and pedagogical
issues of legal writing, lawyering skills, and the bar exam. She has made
presentations on pedagogy to law schools internationally, and has designed
Street-Law style curricula for elementary and junior-high students.
Professor
Kordesh is a former president of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and
board member of the Legal Writing Institute. She has served as an assistant
editor for the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute and a reviewer
for the Multistate Performance Test.
Professor Kordesh joined the John Marshall
faculty in 1996 and directed the Lawyering Skills Program from 1996-2004. In 2008, she became director of the the special admissions program at John Marshall,
the Summer College for Assessing Legal Education
Skills (SCALES).
She
teaches Lawyering Skills and Property.
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