Director of Advocacy Studies. Ms. Gavin earned her B.A. in 1972 at Case Western Reserve University. She was editor of the law review at Cleveland Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, where she earned her J.D. in 1978. Ms. Gavin was an assistant public defender, Office of Public Defender, in Cleveland, Ohio, until 1980. She then practiced with the firm of Griffith & Burr in Philadelphia, from 1980 to 1986, as a trial lawyer. Since 1986, Ms. Gavin has been a practicing attorney and principal of Gavin & Gavin, P.A., in Cherry Hill. She received her civil trial certification from the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1994. She also is a mediator for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for the New Jersey Superior Court. Ms. Gavin has served as a frequent panelist on continuing legal education programs and has developed materials for use in the law school curriculum for teaching advocacy and dispute resolution through participatory skills courses. In addition to teaching Pretrial Advocacy, TrialAdvocacy, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Evidence, she serves as coach of the Rutgers-Camden student trial advocacy teams. She joined the law school faculty in 1992 as an adjunct faculty member and became director of Advocacy Studies in 1996. Her article, "Playing by the Rules: Strategies for Defending Depositions," appears in the Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University Law Review, 1999.
