Biography

Bellido de Luna is the Assistant Dean for Advocacy and Conflict Resolution Programs and Hardy Service Professor of Practice of Law at the St. Mary’s University School of Law. He teaches Trial Advocacy and Arbitration and directs the law school’s Advocacy Program National Team, consisting of The National Moot Court Team, National Trial Team, National Dispute Resolution Team, Jessup International Moot Court Team, and is the faculty advisor to the Board of Advocates.

Bellido de Luna practiced law in Maryland with the Law Offices of G. Russell Donaldson and Palmer Cooper and was the Managing Director of the Clinical Law Program of the University of Maryland School of Law and a Special Prosecutor for Baltimore City. He joined the University of Maryland School of Law full-time in 2008 as the Managing Director of the Clinical Law Program and the Director of the National Trial Team. As a Clinical Law Instructor and Lecturer in Law, Bellido de Luna taught the General Practice Clinic as well as Advanced Trial Advocacy. During his tenure as coach and director, he led the program to their first Tournament of Champions victory.

Prior to joining St. Mary’s University, Bellido de Luna was the Board Executive Officer for the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, where he supported the board in directing and facilitating the district’s strategic direction and managing effective and efficient operations in the areas of board governance and oversight. Bellido de Luna provided high-level professional, managerial and operational advice to the board. He helped oversee the management and implementation of the district’s legislative agenda and served as the point of contact for intergovernmental affairs. Bellido de Luna trained and supervised the district’s hearing examiners.

Bellido de Luna is a former Marine and retired police lieutenant. During his law enforcement career, he served in command positions and supervised Traffic Enforcement & Accident Reconstruction, and spent several years as a child abuse detective.

In 2020, he was elected Vice President as part of the inaugural leadership for the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators (NALAE).

• Staff Member of the Year by the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law’s Student Bar Association Recognition, 2014
• Faculty of the Year Community Award from the Homeless Person’s Representation Project in Baltimore, Maryland, 2013
• Impact Award presented by the Black Law Student’s Association of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, 2010
• Order of the Barrister, 2004

• Expert Report Rules and the Daubert Trilogy (Nat’l Inst. for Trial Advoc. ed., 3d ed. forthcoming May 2022).
• Remote Advocacy: A Guide to Survive and Thrive. Mary Jo Barr, A.J. Bellido de Luna, Elizabeth Boals, Robert Guttman & Traci Buschner, Rebecca Diaz Bonilla, Sidney Kanazawa, Brent Newton, Jules Epstein, Kelly K. Robinson, Christian H. Hendrickson, Allison T. Mikulecky, Whitney Untiedt and Ashley Willcott Chapters(3) Time Management, Ethics, Netiquette, National Institute for Trial Advocacy Publishers. 2020
• State v. Gray, 2016 National Institute of Trial Advocacy With Joseph E. Taylor

White Papers

• One Memorable Cross Examination Lesson (Nat’l Inst. for Trial Advoc. ed., forthcoming 2022)
• Collective Wisdom: When to Impeach with an Inconsistent Statement 3 (Nat’l Inst. for Trial Advoc. ed., 2021)

Biography

As a law student at St. Mary’s, Casiano was a staff writer and editor for The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues, competed in numerous moot court competitions, worked as a research assistant, and was involved in various on-campus student organizations.

Additionally, she served as a legal intern for MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund). After becoming licensed to practice law, she worked as a criminal defense attorney and from 2009-2013 was the Staff Attorney for the Bexar County Domestic Relations Office where she assisted indigent, non-custodial parents with their family law issues.

She is licensed to practice law in Texas and is a member of the San Antonio Bar Association, the Mexican American Bar Association, and the Hispanic Law Alumni Association of St. Mary’s.

Biography

Fajardo teaches the Real Estate Clinic and Deposition Skills, and co-directs the Institute on World Legal Problems in Innsbruck, Austria. Her clinic work and scholarship focus on preserving homeownership and preventing deceptive practices in marginalized communities.

She is a frequent speaker on consumer protection topics around the country. Fajardo uses her academic work to advocate for legislative reform on issues important to low-income Texans, including contract for deed reform and landlord-tenant issues. Her clinic cases have been covered nationally in the New York Times, and locally in the San Antonio Express-News. She is the co-author of a treatise on Texas consumer law and practice. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she started the St. Mary’s Housing Hotline in collaboration with the St. Mary’s Pro Bono Program.

Prior to St. Mary’s University, Fajardo taught in the Housing Rights Clinic at Hofstra Law School and was Executive Director of Shelter Legal Services (now Veterans Legal Services) in Boston, Massachusetts. She clerked for the Honorable Alfred J. Lechner, Jr., United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and was a litigation associate at Hughes, Hubbard and Reed LLP in New York City.

• Distinguished Faculty Award, 2017
• Human Rights Law Review, Articles Editor
• Certificate of achievement in international law, with honors
• IOLTA Fellowship
• Human Rights Fellowship in Dakar, Senegal
• Stone Scholar 1996-1997
• Former member of the New York Bar and Massachusetts Bar
• Current member of the Texas Bar

Articles in a Periodical

• “Debt Collection Practices – COVID-19 Update,” State Bar of Texas, ADVANCED CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL LAW (2020)
• “ABCs of Consumer Credit Compliance,” State Bar of Texas, ADVANCED CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL LAW (2019)
• “’Owner Finance! No Banks Needed!’ Consumer Protection Analysis of Seller-Financed Home Sales: a Texas Case Study,” 20 Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law and Policy 429 (2013).

Books

• Texas Consumer Law Handbook, Texas Practice Series, 2021-2022 Edition, Editor with Ramona L. Lampley
• Consumer Rights and Remedies (3d Ed.), Texas Practice Series, 2022 Supplement, with Ramona L. Lampley

Biography

Kelley provides administrative leadership for the programs of the School of Law’s Center for Legal and Social Justice (the “CLSJ”), which include the Clinical, Externship and Pro Bono Programs. The CLSJ programs provide students opportunities to gain real-life lawyering skills, often serving income-limited clients otherwise unlikely to obtain representation. Kelley also teaches in the curricular component of the Externship course. She received the Distinguished Faculty Award in 2016.

Before becoming Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs, Kelley taught for several years in the Civil Justice Clinic, supervising students representing clients in Social Security disability claims. Before joining the faculty at St. Mary’s, she practiced for several years at Bexar County Legal Aid, focusing on Social Security disability claims and health care advocacy, and prior to that, at the Washington D.C. law firm of Patton Boggs, primarily with its Food and Drug Administration practice group.

Biography

Rodriguez has worked at St. Mary’s for 15 years. She joined the St. Mary’s University School of Law to assist the Office of the Dean of Administration with law school expenditures and the budget.

Prior to joining the School of Law staff, Rodriguez worked as business coordinator at the Office of Facilities Services. From 2000 to 2006, she was the work control coordinator.

Biography

Martinez is the Director of the Sarita Kenedy East Law Library and Professor. He received his J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law in 2000 and his M.S.I.S. from the School of Information at the University of Texas in Austin in 2005.

Since 2003, Martinez has taught Legal Research and Writing and supervised students’ independent writing requirements. Martinez is the faculty member in charge of overseeing The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Race and Social Justice. He also supervises the Dean’s Research Fellows, overseeing their research and writing projects. Martinez trains students who participate in the law school’s externship programs and coordinates workshops for students and alumni.

As Director, Martinez provides strategic vision for the library in order to maintain outstanding service to faculty and students at the law school.

Martinez served as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs for St. Mary’s University for the 2020-2021 academic year.  In this role he provided support, collaboration, and creative leadership to University Administration.

Martinez’s areas of interest include legal research and writing, the law library’s role in legal education, and information technology.

Articles in a Periodical

• Mike Martinez, Jr., Reaching and Teaching Millennials: Designing the Future of Student Services, 18 LEGAL INFO. MGMT 219 (2018)(Co-authored).
• Mike Martinez, Jr., Cost Effective Legal Research: Finding the Right Resources, At the Right Price, Right Now, Corporate Counsel Section of the State Bar Newsletter, Fall 2012 (Co-authored).
• Mike Martinez, Jr. Cost Effective Legal Research, SAN ANTONIO LAWYER, November/December 2011 (Co-authored) (Awarded Best Feature Story by the State Bar of Texas).
• Michael P. Forrest, Mike Martinez, Jr., & Paul S. Miller, Updated Lessons in Conducting Basic Legal Research by Pro Se Litigants Who Cannot Afford an Attorney, 11 SCHOLAR 1 (2008).
• Michael P. Forrest & Mike Martinez, Jr., Too Broke to Hire an Attorney? How to Conduct Basic Legal Research in a Law Library, 9 SCHOLAR 67 (2006).

Presentations

• Fear and Loathing in Teaching Legal Research. AALL, July 2020.
• Instruction and Collaboration During COVID-19: Creating an Inclusive Environment. CALI, June 2020.
• Walk the Talk: Everyday Diversity in the Workplace and AALL. AALL, July 2019.
• The Un-Program. SWALL, April 2019.
• Adding Diversity and Implicit Bias in Your Classroom and Your Law School, AALL Webinar, November 2019.
• Reaching and Teaching Millennials: Designing the Future of Student Services. BIALL, June 2018.
• Who Do You Think You Are? Swing It, Shake It, Move It, Make It: Keeping LIS Skills Relevant for the Future. BIALL, June 2018.
• Cases or Spaces: What’s the 21st Century Law Library Look Like? SWALL, April 2018.
• Cost Effective Legal Research 2014 Update. St. Mary’s University School of Law, March 2014.
• Cost Effective Legal Research 2013 Update. St. Mary’s University School of Law, March 2013.
• Cost Effective Legal Research 2012 Update. St. Mary’s University School of Law, March 2012.
• A Practitioner’s Guide to Internet Legal Research: A Guide to Combing Free and Low Cost Online Legal Research Options for Maximum Savings and Effectiveness. State Bar of Texas Minority Attorney Program, San Antonio, April 2011.
• Cost Effective Legal Research. St. Mary’s University School of Law, March 2011.
• Legal Research and Ethical Implications. St. Mary’s University School of Law, March 2010.
• Legal Research in a Web 2.0 World. St. Mary’s University School of Law, March 2009.
• Legal Research and BLAWGS. St. Mary’s University School of Law, March 2008.
• Internet Legal Research: Time Saving Techniques for Practice. St. Mary’s University School of Law, April 2007.
• Internet Legal Research: Saving Money, Saving Time. St. Mary’s University School of Law, April 2006.

Biography

Lampley is the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and a tenured Professor of Law at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. She teaches constitutional law, civil procedure, e-discovery and commercial law. She is charged with developing educational programming for faculty and students at St. Mary’s School of Law that will broaden horizons and encourage critical analysis in a variety of legal fields.

Lampley’s scholarship focuses on United States policy and domestic liability for corporate reliance on human trafficking, forced labor, or child forced labor in the international supply chain. She has been published in The Pepperdine Law Review, American University Law Review, Washington Law Review, BYU Law Review, Cornell’s Journal of Law and Public Policy, and Essentials of E-discovery.

Her recent article, A Haven for Traffickers: How the United States Provides a Legal Safe Haven for Businesses That Rely on Forced Labor or Slave Labor in the Supply Chain, The Pepperdine Law Review, explores recent judicial skepticism to federal legislation broadening liability for U.S.

companies who know, or should know, they are benefitting from forced labor in their supply chain.  Lampley has published similar pieces evaluating the scope of U.S. corporate liability for failure to deter forced labor in the international supply chain. Lampley is a member of the ABA’s Working Group to Prevent Humanitarian Abuses in the International Supply Chain, former chair of the Article 2 subcommittee for the ABA’s UCC committee, and co-editor for the Conference on

Consumer Financial Services Law’s Quarterly Report. She is frequently asked to present her scholarship in these areas. She has recently become an advocate and educator for fostering civil conversations to explore common-sense and practical weapons regulations to promote a safe and civil society.

Lampley graduated magna cum laude from Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2004. She then clerked for The Honorable Harris L Hartz on The United States Circuit Court for the Tenth Circuit.

Prior to joining the faculty at St. Mary’s School of Law, Lampley practiced civil litigation at Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP in Denver, Colorado. She handled a variety of large cases involving commercial contract disputes, class actions, and professional malpractice. Lampley was recognized as one of Denver, Colorado’s “40 Under 40” rising professionals in 2012 and as one of Colorado Super Lawyer’s Rising Stars in 2012.

Lampley’s proudest accomplishment is raising her three curious and opinionated daughters along with her supportive husband, Kaidan Nguyen. She loves coaching youth girls’ basketball and regularly volunteering at local public schools.

Academic Works

• A Haven for Traffickers: How the United States Provides a Legal Safe-Haven for Businesses That Rely on Forced Labor or Slave Labor in the Supply Chain, 51 Pepperdine L. Rev. 75 (forthcoming 2024) 
• The Rule 26(f) Meet and Confer, in Essentials of E-discovery 2d ed., Chapter 6 (The Honorable Xavier Rodriguez, ed., Texas Bar Books) (2021). 
• Mitigating Risk, Eradicating Slavery, 68 Am. L. Rev. 1707 (2019). 
• Something Old, Something New: Exploring the Recent Amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence, 57 Washburn Law Journal Vol. 3 519 (2018). 
• Texas Practice Series: Consumer Rights and Remedies (4th ed.) ( (co-authored with Genevieve Hebert-Fajardo) (updated annually). 
• Texas Practice Series: Consumer Law Handbook (2018-19 ed.) (co-author with Genevieve Hebert-Fajardo) (updated annually).
• Medical Records as Evidence, (Juris Publishing) (2018) (co-authored with LaMar Jost).
• Federal Evidence Tactics (Lexis Nexis) (co-authored with Edward M. Imwinkelried) (updated annually).
• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Let’s Give Arbitration A Chance, 48 St. Mary’s L. J. 313 (2017), published in connection with the 11th Annual International Conference on Contracts. 
• The CFPB Proposed Arbitration Ban, the Rule, the Data, and Some Considerations for Change, Business Law Today, May 2017, available at http://www.americanbar.org/publications/blt/2017/05/07_lampley.html.
• “Underdog” Arbitration: A Plan for Transparency, 90 Wash. L. Rev. 1727 (Dec. 2015). 
• “The Fine Print,” Elite Attorney SA Nov./Dec. 2015 at 58-59, available at http://issuu.com/eliteattorneysa/docs/final_eliteattorney_san_antonio_dk/59?e=17218103/31826816.
• Case Watch: Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams LLP v. Lopez, Bexar County Women’s Bar Association Equal Times, December 2015 at 5.
• The Honorable Xavier Rodriguez & Ramona L. Lampley, Demonstration: Making and Responding to Objections at Trial, State Bar of Texas, 28th Annual Advanced Evidence & E-discovery Course (co-authored) (May 2015). 
• The Rule 26(f) Meet and Confer, in Essentials of E-discovery, Chapter 6 (The Honorable Xavier Rodriguez, ed., Texas Bar Books) (2014). 
• The Price of Justice: An Analysis of the Costs that are Appropriately Considered in a Cost-based Vindication of Statutory Rights Defense to an Arbitration Agreement, 2013 BYU L. Rev. 825 (2014). 
• Is Arbitration Under Attack?: Exploring the Recent Judicial Skepticism of the Class Arbitration Waiver and Innovative Solutions to the Unsettled Legal Landscape, 18 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 477 (2009). (cited by the Solicitor General for the United States as amicus curiae in American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Rest., 2013 WL 367051, DRI, Voice of the Defense Bar, as amicus curiae in AT&T Mobility, LLC v. Concepcion, 2010 WL 3183854). 
• In Memoriam: The Honorable Philip S. Figa, 86 Denv. U.L. Rev. 851 (2009) (co-authored). 
• False Security: How Courts Have Improperly Rendered the Protections of the Protective Order Illusory, Denver University Law Review Online, March 31, 2011. (http://www.denverlawreview.org/practitioners-pieces/2011/3/31/false-security-how-courts-have-improperly-rendered-the-prote.html).

Works for the Public

• Child Slave Labor Rampant in Chocolate Supply Chain, The San Antonio Express News, Feb. 9, 2019, at https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/commentary/article/Child-slave-labor-rampant-in-chocolate-supply-13602395.php
• Suspend “Blue Tarp Law” for Harvey Victims, The San Antonio Express News, September 6, 2017 (op-ed) at http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Suspend-Blue-Tarp-Law-for-Harvey-victims-12178122.php.
• Presidential Overreach Threatens the Judiciary’s and Nation’s Foundations, ​The San Antonio Express News, February 25, 2017 (op-ed) at http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Presidential-overreach-threatens-the-10957968.php.
• Contracting Away Your Right to Sue, What You Need to Know About Arbitration, ​The San Antonio Express News, May 2, 2015 (op-ed) at http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Contracting-away-your-right-to-sue-What-you-need-6237974.php.

Books

• Federal Evidence Tactics (Lexis Nexis 2021). Co-authored with Edward M. Imwinkelried.
• Texas Practice Series: Consumer Rights and Remedies (3rd ed.) Co-authored with Genevieve Hebert Fajardo.
• Texas Practice Series: Consumer Law Handbook (2020-21 ed.) Co-authored with Genevieve Hebert Fajardo.
• Medical Records as Evidence (Juris Legal Information, 2017) Co-authored with LaMar F. Jost.

Media Highlights

• Leticia Romero, Associate Dean Makes Humanitarian Causes Her Career Mission, Gold & Blue Law Edition (Spring 2024) (news feature about Ramona Lampley and her emerging scholarship). 
• Ramona Lampley, Guest Appearance on Just Love, Violence at Home & Abroad: Uvalde Five Months On, & the Threat of Nuclear War in Ukraine, https://justloveblog.org/2022/10/22/violence-at-home-and-abroad-uvalde-five-months-on-and-the-threat-of-nuclear-war-in-ukraine/ (Oct. 22, 2022). 
• Niccole Caan, Here’s why a lawsuit against a gunmaker has a slim chance of succeeding, KENS5 (June 6, 2022), https://www.kens5.com/article/news/special-reports/uvalde-school-shooting/why-lawsuit-against-gunmaker-has-slim-chance-of-succeeding/273-dbc88d1b-4a24-40d6-a4be-baf822746f86.
• Sarah Acosta, How to Figure Out How Much You’ll Pay at the Hospital Before You Visit, KSAT 12 (Jan. 31, 2019) at http://bit.ly/2TrRHxo.
• David Brancaccio, How too Big to Fail Become A Thing, Marketplace Morning Report, National Public Radio (July 11, 2017) at https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/07112017.
• Samantha Ehlinger, Rackspace Sued for Failing to Disclose Vodafone Contract Loss, San Antonio Express-News (May 30, 2017) at http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/Rackspace-sued-for-failing-to-disclose-Vodafone-11183345.php.
• Patrick Danner, Doctor Allegedly Retaliates by Posting ‘Nearly Naked’ Public Video of Unhappy Patient, San Antonio Express-News, March 1, 2017
• Presidential Overreach Threatens the Judiciary’s and Nation’s Foundations,​San Antonio Express-News, February 25, 2017 David Hendricks, Companies Gag Bad Consumer Reviews with Non-Disparagement Clauses in Contracts, San Antonio Express-News, Sept. 30, 2016
• David Hendricks, Consumer Rule Not All Positive, San Antonio Express-News, May 7, 2016.
• The Fine Print: An Update to Credit and Loan Contracts, Elite Attorney SA, Nov./Dec. 2015
• Case Watch: Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, LLP v. Lopez, Bexar County Women’s Bar Association Equal Times, Dec. 2015
• David Hendricks, Agency Eyes Removing Barriers to Lawsuits, San Antonio Express-News, Oct. 9, 2015
• Companies Use 1925 Arbitration Law to Block Class Actions, Class Action Reporter Vol. 17, June 1, 2015
• Contracting Away Your Right to Sue, What You Need to Know About Arbitration, San Antonio Express-News, May 2, 2015 (op-ed)
• David Hendricks, Know Your Lawyer’s Dispute Policy, San Antonio Express-News, March 31, 2015
• David Hendricks, Consumers Often Blocked From Courts When Disputes Arise, San Antonio Express-News, March 24, 2015
• Marilyn Moritz, Price you Pay May Depend on Cyber Shopping Device, KSAT 12, Dec. 1, 2014 (television interview)
• Lynn Brezosky, Cybertheft Not the Only Concern for Online Shoppers, San Antonio Express-News, Nov. 30, 2014

Other Publications

• The Rule 26(f) Meet and Confer, in Essentials of E-Discovery, 89-111, The Honorable Xavier Rodriguez, ed., Texas Bar Books (2014)
• Mitigating Risk, Eradicating Slavery: The Business Case for Eradicating Slave Labor in the Supply Chain to Reduce Domestic Liability, __AM. L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2019)
• Something Old, Something New: Exploring the Recent Amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence, 57 Washburn Law Journal Vol. 3 519 (2018)
• Texas Practice Series: Consumer Rights and Remedies (4th ed.) (forthcoming 2019) (co-author)
• Medical Records as Evidence, (Juris Publishing) (2018) (co-authored with LaMar Jost)
• Federal Evidence Tactics (Lexis Nexis) (co-authored with Edward M. Imwinkelried)
• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Let’s Give Arbitration A Chance, 48 St. Mary’s L. J. 313 (2017), published in connection with the 11th Annual International Conference on Contracts
• “Underdog” Arbitration: A Plan for Transparency, 90 Wash. L. Rev. 1727 (Dec. 2015)
• “The Fine Print,” Elite Attorney SA Nov./Dec. 2015 at 58-59
• Case Watch: Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams LLP v. Lopez, Bexar County Women’s Bar Association Equal Times, December 2015 at 5
• The Honorable Xavier Rodriguez & Ramona L. Lampley, Demonstration: Making and Responding to Objections at Trial, State Bar of Texas, 28th Annual Advanced Evidence & E-discovery Course (co-authored) (May 2015)
• The Rule 26(f) Meet and Confer, in Essentials of E-Discovery, Chapter 6 (The Honorable Xavier Rodriguez, ed., Texas Bar Books) (2014)
• In Memoriam: The Honorable Philip S. Figa, 86 Denv. U.L. Rev. 851 (2009) (co-authored).
• False Security: How Courts Have Improperly Rendered the Protections of the Protective Order Illusory, Denver University Law Review Online, March 31, 2011.

Presentations

• Litigation Risks for Human Rights Abuses, with host Patrick Miller, California Lawyers Association, at Litigation Risk for human rights abuses with Prof Ramona Lampley (youtube.com) (Jan. 16, 2024)
• Ramona Lampley: Presentation regarding American litigation trends regarding forced labor in supply chain to the ABA Working Group to Draft Human Rights Protections in Supply Contracts (Sept. 7, 2023).
• A Haven for Traffickers: How the United States Provides a Legal Safe-Haven for Businesses That Rely on Forced Labor or Slave Labor in the Supply Chain, St. Mary’s University Research Showcase, April 18, 2023
• Guest Appearance on Just Love, Violence at Home & Abroad: Uvalde Five Months On, & the Threat of Nuclear War in Ukraine, https://justloveblog.org/2022/10/22/violence-at-home-and-abroad-uvalde-five-months-on-and-the-threat-of-nuclear-war-in-ukraine/ (Oct. 22, 2022)
• Ramona Lampley: Presentation on legality of firearm regulation to COPS Metro San Antonio, (Nov. 17, 2022).
• Ramona Lampley: Panelist for St. Mary’s Stands with Uvalde: Catholic Social Teaching and Preventing Violence, St. Mary’s University Center for Catholic Studies Crossroads Symposium (Oct. 19, 2022).
• Ramona Lampley: Presentation regarding American litigation trends regarding forced labor in supply chain to the ABA Working Group to Draft Human Rights Protections in Supply Contracts (Sept. 15, 2022).
• Big Data, For Good, For Evil, or Both? Conference on Social Concerns and Justice, St. Mary’s University School of Law (Feb. 18, 2020).
• Domestic Litigation Involving Forced Labor in the Supply Chain: Evolving Legal Theories and Suggestions for Mitigating Risk, University of Kansas School of Law (March 4, 2019).
• Business Law Basics Webinar, ABA, Domestic Litigation Involving Forced Labor in the Supply Chain: Evolving Legal Theories and Suggestions for Mitigating Risk (Jan. 31, 2019) (CLE).
• Domestic Litigation Involving Forced Labor in the Supply Chain: Evolving Legal Theories and Suggestions for Mitigating Risk, American University College of Law symposium as part of the program: New Perspectives: A Discussion on Modern Global Supply Chains (Jan. 25, 2019).
• Domestic Litigation Involving Forced Labor in the Supply Chain: Evolving Legal Theories and Suggestions for Mitigating Risk, Association of American Law Schools Annual Conference, Section on Contracts, co-sponsored by Business Associations and International Human Rights (Jan. 4, 2019).
• Extraterritorial Jurisdiction under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act:  Too Much or Too Little? Discussant, New and Established Voices in Civil Procedure, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Conference (August 10, 2018).
• Towards “Speedy, Fair, and Efficient Justice:” Assessing the New Federal Rules, Discussant, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Conference (August 3, 2016).
• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Let’s Give Arbitration A Chance?, The 11th Annual International Conference on Contracts, St. Mary’s School of Law, (February 27, 2016).
• Fairness in Arbitrating the Sales of Consumer Products and Services, ABA Business Law Section Annual Meeting, September 19, 2015 (Program Co-chair and panelist) (CLE).
• Demonstration: Making and Responding to Objections at Trial, State Bar of Texas, 28th Annual Advanced Evidence & E-discovery Course (with The Honorable Xavier Rodriguez and Lamont Jefferson, Esq.) (May 21, 2015) (CLE).
• “Underdog” Arbitration: A Plan for Transparency, Arizona Summit Law School, February 17, 2015.  Listed on SSRN’s Top Ten Download list for Labor & Employment Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution.
• Arbitration, Transparency, & Access to Justice, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Conference, New Scholars Colloquia, Civil Procedure and Courts, August 4, 2014.
• E-discovery Requirements Under Rule 26(f)’s Meet and Confer Obligation: A Focus on Cooperation, Continuing Legal Education, St. Mary’s University School of Law, March 22, 2014.
• Socially Responsible Investing, Moderator, April 2014.
• Is Arbitration Under Attack?: Exploring the Recent Judicial Skepticism of the Class Arbitration Waiver and Innovative Solutions to the Unsettled Legal Landscape, University of Idaho Law School (November 7, 2011).
• Is Arbitration Under Attack?: Exploring the Recent Judicial Skepticism of the Class Arbitration Waiver and Innovative Solutions to the Unsettled Legal Landscape, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law (November 21, 2011).

Biography

Before joining St. Mary’s, Leffall served as the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at Mercer University School of Law in Macon, GA from 2019 to 2022, where she supported student well-being, student leadership development, and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Prior to Mercer University, she held roles that focused on student conduct, Title IX, expressive activity on campus, and special projects within the Division of Student Affairs at Texas A&M University-College Station and at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

She has served on the Board of Directors for the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA) and has served as guest faculty for the Advanced Sexual Misconduct Institute of the Donald D. Gehring Academy and several higher education law courses. She has presented on topics related to student conduct at a number of conferences.

Before beginning a career in student affairs, Leffall practiced commercial litigation in Nashville, TN where she represented pharmaceutical, medical device, and other companies in individual and mass tort cases, as well as in contract disputes. Leffall holds a College Teaching Certificate from Texas A&M University and is a certified general and family mediator.

Biography

Professor Marks graduated magna cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center in 2001 where he served as an associate editor on the Houston Law Review. After law school, Professor Marks clerked for the Honorable Harold R. DeMoss Jr. on the United States Fifth Court of Appeals for two years.

In Fall 2003, Professor Marks joined the law firm of Baker Botts, L.L.P., in Houston, Texas where he was an associate in the trial department. At Baker Botts, his practice concentrated on commercial litigation, as well as some pro bono criminal work. Professor Marks left Baker Botts in Summer 2006 to join St. Mary’s University School of Law.

Marks was awarded tenure in 2010 and promoted to the rank of full professor that same year. In 2014, Professor Marks was named the inaugural Director of the Master of Jurisprudence Program.

• Member of the American Law Institute (ALI) (elected in
• President (2019-2020), Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS)
• University Excellence Award St. Mary’s University (2017-2018) (awarded to one faculty member per year at the University)
• Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (2014-2015)
• Business Law Section, UCC Annual Survey Subcommittee Co-Chair (Fall 2013-Present)
• AALS Section on Contracts, Executive Committee (2018-Present)
• AALS Section on Agency, Partnerships, LLCs and Unincorporated Associations, Executive Committee (2013-Present)
• Selected for the 2010 Call for Papers on Freedom of Contract Presented by the Federalists Society and the John Templeton Foundation
• Selected for the 2010 Southeast Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Call for Papers
• St. Mary’s Law Journal Outstanding Faculty Advocate Award (2010)
• Student Bar Association Professor of the Year (2009)
• Order of the Coif

Books and Book Chapters

• Mastering Sales (Carolina Academic Press 2018) (with Jeremy Kidd)
• Color Me Secured (Peter Lane Publishing 2017) (with Marc L. Roark; illustrations by David Spear)
• Business Torts: Cases, Materials and Problems (West 2016) (with Douglas K. Moll)
• Jiminy Cricket for the Corporation: Understanding the Corporate “Conscience”, in Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos: The Corporate Scandal Reader (Nancy B. Rapoport, Jeffrey D. Van Niel & Bala G. Dharan eds., Foundation Press 2d ed. 2009)
• Selected publications can be viewed on Professor Marks’ SSRN page.

Articles in a Periodical

• When is a Warranty Not a Warranty?: Deconstructing the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act’s Narrow Definition of “Warranty”, U.C.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming)
• Online Terms as In Terrorem Devices, 78 Md. L. Rev. 247 (2019)
• Online and As Is, 45 Pepp. L. Rev. 1 (2018)
• Piercing the Fiduciary Veil, 19 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 73 (2015)
• Not What, but When is an Offer: Rehabilitating the Rolling Contract, 46 Conn. L. Rev. 73 (2013) (selected as winner of the 2013 Call for Papers on Freedom of Contract Presented by the Federalist Society and the John Templeton Foundation)
• The Irony of AT&T v. Concepcion, 87 Ind. L. J. Supp. 31 (2012)
• Limited Partnership Status and the Imposition of Fiduciary Duties under Texas Law, 63 Bay. L. Rev. 126 (2011)
• The Anticipation Misconception, 99 Ky. L. J. 9 (2010-2011) (selected as winner of the 2010 Southeast Association of Law Schools Call for Papers)
• Plato, THE PRINCE and Corporate Virtue: Philosophical Approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility, 45 U.S.F.L. Rev. 1 (2010) (with Paul S. Miller)
• Corporate Ethical Responsibility and the Lawyer’s Role in a Contemporary Democracy, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 1269 (2009) (solicited colloquium article with Nancy B. Rapoport)
• Jiminy Cricket for the Corporation: Understanding the Corporate “Conscience”, 42 Val. U.L. Rev. 1129 (2008) (Symposium)
• Thomson/McNulty Memo Internal Investigations: Ethical Concerns of the “Deputized” Counsel, 38 St. Mary’s L. J. 1065 (2007) (solicited symposium essay)
• Corporate Investigations, Attorney-Client Privilege, and Selective Waiver: Is a Half-Privilege Worth Having at All?, Seattle L. Rev. 155 (Fall 2006)
• Pre-Launch Litigation Audits: The Double-Edged Nature of the Work-Product Doctrine, IADC Newsletter No. 9 (May, 2006) (with Steve Scheve)
• The Limits of Limiting Liability in the Battle of the Forms: U.C.C. § 2-207 and the “Material Alteration” Inquiry, 33 Pepp. L. Rev. 501 (2006).
• Opening the Door to Business Methods: State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc., 37 Hous. L. Rev. 923 (2000).