Director of Advocacy Studies and Visiting Professor. Professor 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, Professor 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 the New Jersey Superior Court. Professor 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 publications include, "No Second Chances: Best Practices for Expert Practice" (Stetson Law Review), "Stealth Tort Reform" (Valparaiso University Law Review), "Managerial Justice in a Post-Daubert World: A Reliability Paradigm" (Federal Rules Decisions), "Unconscionability Found: A Look at Pre-Dispute Mandatory Arbitration Agreements 10 Years After 'Doctor's Associates, Inc. v. Casarotto'" (Cleveland State Law Review), "Playing by the Rules: Strategies for Defending Depositions" (Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University Law Review).