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Gwen Roseman Stern
Director of Trial Advocacy Program
Auxiliary Professor of Law
Email: Gstern@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4764
Office: Earle
Mack School of Law, Room 351
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Education
J.D Temple University Beasley School of Law
B.S. summa cum laude, University of Maryland-College Park
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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