Director of Academic Excellence and Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Skills Maryann Herman served as the director of academic success and bar preparation studies at the Appalachian School of Law, where she also taught Business Associations. She formerly
Assistant Clinical Professor Tiffany Sizemore-Thompson joined Duquesne to launch and supervise the Juvenile Defender Clinic and the Education Law Clinic. She comes to Duquesne after serving for more than two years as the Deputy Director for the Juvenile Division at the Office of the Public Defender in Allegheny County. As deputy director, Sizemore-Thompson managed 11 full-time juvenile defense practitioners who appeared before approximately a dozen family court judges. She also wrote and implemented new practice standards across the Juvenile Division and was appointed to the Juvenile Court Procedural Rules Committee in 2014. Prior to her work in Allegheny County, Sizemore-Thompson was at the Public Defender Service for
worked at BarBri Bar Review and The Chicago Legal Clinic. Herman received her J.D. from Wayne State University in Detroit, where she was the editor-in-chief of the Wayne Law Review. In addition to holding academic excellence workshops and providing individual academic counseling at Duquesne Law, Herman teaches the Advanced Legal Reasoning course.
the District of Columbia (PDS) where she served as both a staff attorney and a supervisor in the trial division. PDS is widely regarded as the premier public defender organization in the country. As a litigator, her work included complex criminal defense litigation and representing witnesses to crimes, targets of grand jury investigations, and defendants in diversionary courts, e.g., mental health court or drug court. Sizemore-Thompson graduated from Howard University School of Law, cum laude, and attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she received her bachelor’s degree in education. “My hope is that students will leave my classes with an understanding of the importance of the zealous, client-centered advocacy,” she says. “I hope they will become lawyers who are concerned with the importance of solving society’s problems in a holistic way that elevates the voices of those who are so often unheard in our courts.”
Corbett co-teaches a new course on public interest law Former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is now a distinguished lecturer at the School of Law, co-teaching with Professors Joseph Sabino Mistick and John Rago the new course Law, Public Service and the Executive Branch. The course fulfills an elective requirement for the Government and Public Interest Law concentration. Through weekly lectures by Corbett, Mistick and Rago, the class provides an understanding of the complexity of government and policy making. It is uniquely poised to examine the art of government through the lens of the chief executive, and will address the roles of the legislature, courts and citizenry at large. Issues examined include education, health care, environment, transportation, and contemporary social issues such as voting rights and lobbying. “This is one of those rare law and public policy courses taught by lawyers who were in the room when policy was made,” says Mistick. Visit triblive.com/news/westmoreland for more coverage. FA L L / W I N T E R 2 0 1 5
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