CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for a lawyering skills Assistant Professor position beginning July 2025 to teach in our Legal Writing, Leadership, Experiential Education, Advocacy, and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) program. This is a 10-month renewable long-term contract position on the lawyering-skills track. The position has the potential for promotion and for presumptively renewable five-year contracts once the candidate reaches the rank of Professor. Candidates will be considered for appointment at the level commensurate with law teaching experience.
LLEAP is a required three-semester component (9 credits) of the JD curriculum. In the first year, students learn research, analysis, objective and persuasive writing, and contract drafting. They also engage in four experiential modules taught by adjunct professors who are practicing attorneys. Students learn and practice client interviewing, client counseling, negotiation, and oral argument skills in these modules. LLEAP 3 transforms the classroom into a law firm where students research, write, advise, negotiate, and advocate on a proceeding from start to finish in a transactional, litigation, or appellate setting. The LLEAP program has a director and shared core assignments, but faculty members each develop their own teaching materials and lessons. In 2024, Bloomberg Law recognized LLEAP in its Law School Innovation Program for its innovative approach to teaching students critical lawyering skills.
We seek candidates with a JD from an ABA-accredited law school, a distinguished academic record, and at least three years of post-law school law practice. Candidates’ experiences must demonstrate the potential for excellence in legal writing and other practical lawyering skills. Key responsibilities will involve classroom teaching in our required first-year LLEAP course, one-on-one student interaction, drafting and grading multiple student writing projects each semester, and devising and coordinating simulation exercises. In addition, this member of the faculty will be part of, and must integrate curriculum with, the LLEAP faculty.
Case Western Reserve University is among the country’s leading independent private research institutions and has been a member of the AAU since 1969. CWRU is located five miles east of downtown Cleveland in University Circle, a square-mile urban district full of renowned cultural, medical, educational, and social-service institutions. Among one of the most livable cities in the country, metropolitan Cleveland is home to nearly three million people and is known for its thriving healthcare and biotechnology industries, lively arts and cultural scene, popular sports franchises, low cost of living with neighborhoods ranked as among the best places to live in Ohio, and wealth of natural resources. Many of CWRU’s academic programs incorporate collaboration with cultural and educational institutions across the region.
Qualifications
We seek candidates with a JD from an ABA-accredited law school, a distinguished academic record, and at least three years of post-law school law practice. Candidates’ experiences must demonstrate the potential for excellence in legal writing and other practical lawyering skills.
Application Instructions
Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, summary of teaching and/or professional experience, and the contact information for three professional references via Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/150036. In their summary of teaching and/or professional experience, candidates are encouraged to reflect on ways in which they will foster a culture of diversity, pluralism, and individual difference at Case Western Reserve University into the future. Further information about the law school is available at http://law.case.edu.
Case Western Reserve University strives to maintain a diverse and inclusive work environment. All applicants are protected under Federal law from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age and genetics.
Case Western Reserve provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the Office of Equity by phone at 216.368.3066 or by email at equity@case.edu. Determinations as to granting reasonable accommodations for any applicant will be made on a case-by-case basis.