About the Authors

Marilyn J. Berger

Education
B.S. Cornell University 1965. J.D. University of California/Berkeley 1970: Moot Court, A. Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer fellow.

Background
Professor Berger has been a visiting professor of law at South Bank Polytechnic, London, and at Kyoto University, Japan, and a scholar-in-residence at the University of London and Washington University in St. Louis. She directed and produced three legal documentaries, "Lessons From Woburn: The Untold Stories" with Henry Wigglesworth (2000), "The Rules of Procedure" (2002), and "Conduct and Settlement" (2002). In March 2001, she was a U.S. State Department speaker and specialist grantee in St. Petersburg, Russia. She joined the faculty in 1978.
Books

Pretrial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy (Wolters/Kluwer 2007) (with Ronald H. Clark, Monique C.M. Leahy, and John B. Mitchell)
Student Coursebook for Lessons from Woburn (2002).
Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy (Little, Brown 1989) (with John B. Mitchell and Ronald H. Clark).
Pretrial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis and Strategy (Little, Brown 1988) (with John Mitchell)

Articles

Letters and Postcards We Wished We Had Sent to Gary Bellow and Bea Moulton, 10 Clinical Law Review, 157 (2003) (with John Mitchell and Annette Clark).
Gender Bias in the American Bar Association Journal: Impact on the Legal Profession, 13 Wis. Women's L.J. 75 (1998) (with Kari A. Robinson).
Woman's Ghetto Within the Legal Profession, 8 Wis. Women's L.J. 71 (1993) (with Kari A. Robinson).
Rethinking Advocacy Training, 16 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 821 (1993) (with John Mitchell).
Secrecy in Civil Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution in the United States, printed in Wege Zum Japanischen Recht, Festschrift für Zentaro Kitagawa, (April 1992).
Meishi, Kyoto Comparative Newsletter, (June 1990).
Alternative Dispute Resolution in the United States, No. 913 Jurist 109, (April 1990).
A Comparative Study of British Barristers and American Legal Practice and Education, 5 Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus. 540 (1983).
Acquiring In Personam Jurisdiction in Federal Question Cases: Procedural Frustration Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4, 1982 Utah L. Rev. 285 (1982).

Videos

Lessons from Woburn: Conduct and Settlement (2002).
Lessons from Woburn: Rules of Procedure (2002).
Lessons from Woburn: Untold Stories (2000) (with Henry Wigglesworth).

John B. Mitchell

E-mail address: jmitchell@seattleu.edu

Professor Mitchell's wide ranging career has included: private practice in his own law firm in San Francisco, where he specialized in criminal litigation (1970-75); consultant to public and private defense attorneys concerning trial, motions and appellate strategies (1973-1982); and director of legal training for the Seattle office of Perkins Coie where, while away from the law school, he developed a two-year training curriculum for new associates in business and litigation (1988-90). He has written extensively for professional journals on such topics as professional responsibility, learning and educational theory, training of lawyers, constitutional law, legal process, and criminal procedure.

Over the past two decades, Professor Mitchell has taught courses in Evidence, Forensics, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Advocacy. He was also a member of the Law Practice Clinic for six years, the last two as Director.

Books

Pretrial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy (Wolters/Kluwer 2007) (with Marilyn Berger, Ronald H. Clark, Monique C.M. Leahy)
Washington Evidence Trial Book: Objections, Offers of Proof, Rulings on the Record, and Limiting Instructions (1999) (with Stephen A. Saltzburg and Fred Tausend).
Evidence (Seattle University Skills Development Series 1996) (with Rick T. Barron).
Criminal Procedure (Seattle University Skills Development Series 1995) (with Rick T. Barron).
Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy (Little, Brown 1989) (with Marilyn J. Berger and Ronald H. Clark).
Pretrial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy (Little, Brown 1988) (with Marilyn J. Berger).

Articles

My Father, John Locke, and Assisted Suicide: The Real Constitutional Right 3 Indiana Health L. Rev. (2006).
In (Slightly Uncomfortable) Defense of 'Triage' by Public Defenders 39 Valparaiso L. Rev. 925 (2005).
Evaluating Brady Error Using Narrative Theory: A Proposal For Reform 53 Drake L. Rev.599 (2005).
Conversation with Chief Justice John Marshall 2003 Equalizer 14 (November 2003).
Letters and Postcards We Wished We Had Sent to Gary Bellow and Bea Moulton 10 Clin. L. Rev. 157 (2003) (with Marilyn Berger).
Why Should the Prosecutor Get the Last Word? 27 Am. J. Crim. L. 139 (2000).
Narrative and Client-centered Representation: What Is a True Believer to Do When His Two Favorite Theories Collide? 6 Clinical L. Rev. 85 (1999).
Another Chat with the Lady in the Grocery Line: Clinton v. Jones, 15 Const. Comment. 441 (1998).
A Clinical Textbook?, 20 Seattle U. L. Rev. 353 (1997).
Tribute to James E. Beaver, 19 Seattle U. L. Rev. xviii (1996).
And Then Suddenly Seattle University Was on Its Way to a Parallel, Integrative Curriculum, 2 Clinical L. Rev. 1 (1995) (with Betsy R. Hollingsworth, Patricia Hall Clark & Raven Lidman).
Redefining the Sixth Amendment, 67 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1215 (1994).
Rethinking Advocacy Training, 16 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 821 (1993) (with Marilyn J. Berger).
What Went Wrong with the Warren Court's Conception of the Fourth Amendment? 27 New Eng. L. Rev. 35 (1992).
What Would Happen if Videotaped Depositions of Sexually Abused Children Were Routinely Admitted in Civil Trials? A Journey Through the Legal Process and Beyond, 15 U. Puget Sound L. Rev. 261 (1992).
Don't Ever Discuss Rust v. Sullivan with a Lady in a Grocery Line, 9 Const. Comment. 25 (1992).
In Training Business Lawyers, Theoretical Means Practical, Amer. Law., June 1990, at 30.
Current Theories on Expert and Novice Thinking: A Full Faculty Considers the Implications for Legal Education, 39 J. Legal Educ. 275 (1989).
Tribute to Andrew Walkover, 12 U. Puget Sound L. Rev. xv (1988).
Reasonable Doubts Are Where You Find Them: A Response to Professor Subin's Position on the "Criminal Lawyer's 'Different Mission'" 1 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 339 (1987), reprinted in M.E. Katsch, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Legal Issues (4th ed. Duskin Publishing Group 1991).
The Ethics of the Criminal Defense Attorney—New Answers for Old Questions, 32 Stan. L. Rev. 293 (1980).

Ronald H. Clark

E-mail address: rclark@seattleu.edu

Education
B.A., University of Washington; J.D., Willamette University, 1969.

Background
Professor Clark is a nationally known lecturer and author. He is the Principal of Prosecution Services, LLC, which provides continuing legal education and publications. He has lectured at over 40 national courses and for numerous state associations. He has been awarded both the Distinguished Faculty Award and a Lecturer of Merit Award by the National College of District Attorneys as well as the Dean’s Award of Honor. The Washington Association Prosecuting Attorneys awarded him the President’s Award of Merit.

Professor Clark is the former Senior Training Counsel for the National College of District Attorneys at the National Advocacy Center. As the Senior Training Counsel, Professor Clark pioneered the first courses conducted at the National Advocacy Center when it opened its doors to state and local prosecutors beginning in 1998 and for the following six years. Prior to that Professor Clark was in the King County Prosecutor's office in Seattle, Washington for 27 years, where he served as a senior deputy prosecutor, head of the trial teams and, for ten years, as the Chief Deputy of the Criminal Division leading over 115 attorneys.

Professor Clark has written several books, including co-authoring two books with Seattle University Professors Marilyn Berger and John Mitchell, Pretrial Advocacy and Trial Advocacy, published by Aspen and the second edition of Pretrial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy (Wolters/Kluwer 2007) with Marilyn Berger, Monique C.M. Leahy, and John B. Mitchell. He also wrote Making and Meeting Objections (Evidence Handbook for Washington Trial Lawyers). He served as the Chief Author for the Criminal Trial Practice and Techniques Chapter of the Washington Practice Manual.

Professor Clark has written and lectured frequently on professional responsibility. He was a member of the blue ribbon American Bar Association Task Force that formulated the current Prosecution and Defense Function Standards. Also, he was on the Public Law and Ethics Committee for the Washington State Association of Municipal Attorneys that produced a Public Law Ethics Primer. Professor Clark was the course director for the first National Ethics Symposium at the National Advocacy Center, which brought together prosecutor ethics liaisons from each state in the nation. He is the editor of the National College of District Attorney’s professional responsibility book, entitled Doing Justice: Prosecutor’s Guide to Ethics and Civil Liability.