J.C. Lore III is the director of trial advocacy. He trains law
students and attorneys throughout the country and internationally, including statewide trainings of attorneys in Florida, New
Jersey, California, and New York and numerous other regional and
national trainings for both public interest attorneys and attorneys in
private practice. Professor Lore has been a faculty member for the
National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) since 2004 and has taught
as both a team leader and program director. He also was a faculty
member at NITA's 40th Anniversary National Session and received NITA's
2011 Volunteer of the Year Award. He currently is a faculty member of
the Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program at Emory Law School and has
previously taught trial advocacy at Northwestern University School of
Law. Professor Lore also provides training to trial advocacy
instructors.
Professor Lore is the coauthor for Modern Trial Advocacy: Analysis and Practice (with
Steven Lubet), which is one of the country's
leading trial advocacy books used by lawyers and students throughout the
world. Modern Trial Advocacy has been adopted by over 90 United States
law schools, and has been translated or adapted for use in Japan,
Canada, Israel, the Republic of China (Taiwan), the People's Republic of
China, and Chile.
In 2011, he created and now directs the Center for Public
Interest Training at the Rutgers Law School, which provides free training for
public interest lawyers. Professor Lore's commitment to teaching was
recognized by Rutgers when he was awarded the 2012 Chancellor's Award
for Civic Engagement, the 2013 Chancellor's Award for Teaching
Excellence, 2014 Lawyering Professor of the Year, 2015 Professor of the
Year, and 2016 Professor of the Year.
Professor Lore came to Rutgers in 2006 to become the founding
codirector of the Children's Justice Clinic, the first Rutgers Law
School clinic to focus on children. As part of the clinic, third-year law
students receive academic credit for representing children in southern
New Jersey facing juvenile delinquency matters. In addition to providing
legal services, students also work with their clients to address the
causes of delinquency problems in their home environment.
Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2006, Professor Lore served
as the acting director of the Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic at Villanova
University School of Law. He also has worked as a staff attorney and pro bono coordinator
at the Bluhm Legal Clinic of Northwestern University School of Law
where he managed the training and supervision of more than 200 Chicago
area law firm attorneys who represented children in juvenile court. Before pursuing a teaching career, he was an assistant public defender
at the Defender Association of Philadelphia and the Cook County Public
Defender's Office in Chicago. Throughout his career he has litigated
hundreds of trials and motions before a wide variety of courts and
administrative agencies.
Professor Lore serves on several committees and boards, including the
New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Minority Concerns and the New
Jersey Supreme Court Civil Practice Committee. He is an expert on issues
of children's rights, juvenile law, and trial advocacy and has been a
frequent contributor to various media outlets throughout the country.
