Molly Lien
Professor and Director of Lawyering Skills
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
312.427.2737 ext. 379
E-mail: 7lien@jmls.edu

BM, University of Miami
JD, Emory University School of Law, Order of the Coif

After law school, Molly Lien clerked for the Honorable Wilbur F. Pell Jr. (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit). She spent ten years in private practice, and in 1986 she joined the faculty at IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she directed the legal writing program from 1993-2001. Professor Lien is trained in technical legal Russian and has taught frequently in Russia, most recently devoting her summers from 2000-2003 teaching in the University of San Diego's program in Moscow.

From 1999-2001, she directed Project Ukraine for Chicago-Kent, where she administered a U.S. Department of State grant to purchase equipment for DNA testing for the University of Internal Affairs in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Professor Lien is active in professional associations and has published on legal research and writing, as well as on Russian legal matters. She was a visiting consultant on legal skills at the National University of Singapore in 2001-2002.

Professor Lien was named director of the Lawyering Skills program in 2004. She teaches Lawyering Skills, Civil Procedure II, International Law, International Trade, and Comparative Law.