Director of Advocacy Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor. Sandra Gavin earned her B.A.
in 1972 at Case Western Reserve University and a J.D. in
1978 at Cleveland Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State
University, where she served as an editor of the law review. Professor
Gavin began her career as an assistant public defender, Office of
Public Defender, in Cleveland, Ohio. She continued her career as a
litigation associate with a Philadelphia law firm. 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 has served as 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, Trial Advocacy, Alternative Dispute
Resolution, Evidence, and Products Liability, she serves as coach of
the Rutgers-Camden student trial advocacy competition teams. Her
article, "Playing by the Rules: Strategies for Defending Depositions,"
appears in the Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University Law Review, 1999.
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