Jennifer Cupar is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Lawyering Skills at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. From 2022 to 2025, she served as Director of the school’s Legal Writing, Leadership, Experiential Learning, Advocacy, and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) program. Her academic interests are in the areas of litigation, legal writing, and professional responsibility. She currently teaches Professional Responsibility and previously taught LLEAP 1-2; LLEAP 3-Litigation; Race, Law, and Society; and the Federal Judicial Externship course. She has coached moot court teams and overseen the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Summer Legal Academy. Professor Cupar received the Faculty Distinguished Service Prize in both 2022 and 2025 for her contributions to the School of Law.
Before joining the faculty at the School of Law, Prof. Cupar was a judicial law clerk to The Honorable Patricia A. Gaughan and The Honorable Solomon Oliver, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. She also practiced litigation at several law firms and served as the Assistant Director of the Milton and Charlotte Kramer Law Clinic, a law clinic that operates out of the School of Law.
Prof. Cupar frequently speaks locally and nationally on effective legal writing and legal writing pedagogy. She is an active member of the Legal Writing Institute, where she serves on the Teaching Resources Committee. Prof. Cupar is a board member of Collaborative to End Human Trafficking and the Women’s Fund of the Lorain County Community Foundation.