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Gwen
Roseman Stern
Director
of Trial Advocacy and Associate Teaching Professor
Email: Gstern@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4764
Office: Earle Mack
School of Law, Room 235
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Education
J.D., Temple University School of Law
B.S., summa cum laude, University of Maryland
Gwen Stern’s
expertise includes medical malpractice and product-liability
law as well as promoting trial advocacy skills and community
awareness of legal procedures. She has been a faculty member
proving intensive trial
advocacy training on both a local and national level
for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
Professor Stern directs
the Marshall-Brennan
Constitutional Literacy Project, which she brought to Philadelphia
as a joint undertaking between Drexel and the University of
Pennsylvania law schools to encourage city high-school students
to learn about their rights and responsibilities under the
Constitution. This Project culminates in a local and national
constitutional law appellate advocacy competition for the high
school students.
Previously, Professor
Stern was an adjunct professor at Temple University’s
Beasley School of Law teaching both introduction and advanced
trial advocacy. She also directed the trial training program
for Temple LEAP (Law, Education, and Participation)’s
Philadelphia High School Mock Trial Competition.
She earned her J.D.
from Temple, where she was a member of the Moot Court Honor
Society and named the best oral advocate in the I. Herman Stern
Moot Court Competition.
After graduation,
Professor Stern was an associate with the Philadelphia law
firms Kline and Specter PC, White and Williams LLC, where she
tried numerous medical malpractice cases. As an associate with
Harvey, Pennington, Herting and Renneisen, she prepared pleadings,
motions, legal briefs and discovery in medical malpractice,
pharmaceutical and products liability cases and conducted depositions
and arbitrations in defense of personal injury litigation.
She was previously an associate with Daniels, Saltz, Mongeluzzi
and Barrett.
As community leader,
Professor Stern received the prestigious Philadelphia Bar Association’s
F. Sean Peretta Service Award for providing innovative programs
to the community. She also is a board member of the Nation
Youth Justice Alliance.
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