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Terry Jean Seligmann
Director of Legal Writing Program
Arlin M. Adams Professor of Legal Writing
Email: Terry.J.Seligmann@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4718
Office: Earle
Mack School of Law, Room 333
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Education
J.D., cum laude, New York University School of Law
B.A., with distinction, Mount Holyoke College
Terry Seligmann is an experienced attorney and teacher with
expertise in legal research, legal writing, education law and
special-education law.
Before coming to Drexel, Professor Seligmann directed the Legal
Writing and Research program at the University of Arkansas School
of Law, where she was also a professor of law. She previously
taught at Suffolk University Law School, and while in practice,
taught courses at Boston University School of Law
and Northeastern University School of Law.
A former president of the Legal Writing Institute, Professor
Seligmann remains a member of the national organization’s
board of directors. She has also been active with the Association
of Legal Writing Directors and played a leadership role in organizing
conferences and roundtables to advance legal research and writing
programs.
Her scholarship focuses on legal issues in education and on
teaching legal methods. Recent articles include “Rowley
Comes Home to Roost: Judicial Review of Methodology Disputes
in Autism Special Education Cases,” in the University
of California-Davis Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy, and “Why
is a Legal Memorandum Like an Onion: A Student’s Guide
to Reviewing and Editing,” in the Mercer Law Review.
Professor Seligmann earned her J.D. at New York University School
of Law, where she was Editor of the New York University Law Review
and a member of the Order of the Coif.
After clerking for Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. of the U.S.
District Court for the District of Massachusetts, during his
supervision of the Boston school desegregation case, she served
as an assistant attorney general for Massachusetts, where she
worked on cases in the areas of education, public health, welfare
and taxation.
She subsequently worked in Boston as a senior litigation associate
with Herrick & Smith, as staff counsel for the Supreme Judicial
Court in Massachusetts and was of counsel with Heidlage & Reece
in Boston.
She has served as president of the Women’s Bar Association
of Massachusetts, as vice-chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee
of the Massachusetts Bar Association and as a hearing officer
for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.
Professor Seligmann is an amateur flutist who plays in community
bands and orchestras.
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