Director, Legal Research and Writing Program. Ms. Durako earned her B.A. in mathematics summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1970 and her J.D. cum laude in 1979 at the University of Florida. She earned her Ed.M. at Harvard University in 1974, where she received the President`s award for a pilot television program. After law school, Ms. Durako joined the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education. From 1980 to 1986, she served as the Education Department`s legislative counsel. After leaving the Department of Education, Ms. Durako was in private practice, where she specialized in intellectual property and computer law. In 1993, she joined the faculty at Villanova Law School, where she taught research and writing. She has published and presented widely on legal research and writing topics, and pedagogy issues, with articles in the Journal of Legal Education, Scribes, The Best of Perspectives, The Second Draft, Pittsburgh Law Review, Villanova Women`s Law Forum, and Employee Rights and Policy Journal. A member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Legal Education and the Legal Writing Institute Journal, Ms. Durako is also on the Pennsylvania Bar Association`s Plain English Committee. In 1997, Ms. Durako joined the Rutgers faculty to direct the Legal Research and Writing Program. She is a member of the Bars of the District of Columbia, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Her pro bono activities include serving on the board of the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts since 1986.