Faculty

Guest Faculty

David Ball
David Ball is the founding partner of Malekpour & Ball, a North Carolina jury consulting firm. He is a nationally recognized trial consultant, author, and communications expert. Mr. Ball has taught trial advocacy at law schools across the United States and was the 2002 recipient of the Charles Becton Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy.  He received his Ph.D. in Speech, Communications, and Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1970.

Stuart Berkson
Stuart M. Berkson is a partner at DLA Piper in Chicago, where he chairs the firm’s global Latin America practice. Mr. Berkson specializes in international business transactions and is a widely recognized expert on Latin American tax issues. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Law School and a frequent lecturer on international tax and commercial transactions. Additionally, Mr. Berkson is a certified public accountant. He received his law degree from Harvard in 1980.

Pam Bernard
Pam Bernard is Vice President and General Counsel of Duke University.  She oversees all legal issues concerning the university, including employment issues, health issues, research, tax, athletics, and litigation.  She received her law degree from the University of Florida.

Merrick Bernstein L’97
Merrick Bernstein works as in-house counsel for Lenovo, Inc. in Durham, NC.  His practice is focused on Lenovo’s commercial transactions and production relationships in China.  Mr. Bernstein received his law degree from Duke in 1997.

Rhett Brandon L’79
Rhett Brandon is a partner with Simpson Thacher in New York. He specializes in corporate finance as well as mergers and acquisitions, and advises corporations in the United States and around the world on issues of capital markets, financing, and major transactions.  Mr. Brandon graduated from Duke University in 1976 and received his law degree from Duke in 1979.

Jennifer Cabrera Cammarota
Jennifer Cabrera Cammarota is a partner at the boutique international litigation and arbitration firm of Dan Tan Law in New York. Ms. Cabrera advises clients across the globe on dispute resolution and has successfully concluded multi-million dollar arbitrations. She is the author of several articles on international arbitration and has been a speaker at arbitration conferences in North America.  Ms. Cabrera is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She received her law degree from Harvard Law School and an LL.M. at Cambridge.

Candace Carroll L’74
Candace Carroll is of counsel to the law firm of Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engle in San Diego, California. She is an experienced appellate practitioner who has argued in numerous Federal Circuit courts as well as state appellate courts, and was the recipient of the 2009 Charles S. Rhyne award from Duke Law School. She received her law degree from Duke in 1974.

Marilyn Forbes
Marilyn Forbes practices in the areas of pharmaceutical products litigation and products liability litigation for Womble Carlyle in Raleigh, NC.  She is an adjunct professor at Duke Law, and plans to teach a Pre-trial Practice course at Duke in Spring 2011.  She received her law degree from Wake Forest University.

Susanne Haas , L’85, L’87
Susanne Haas is vice president and general counsel for environmental and combustion control, a division of the automation and control business of Honeywell International Inc. She is responsible for all legal affairs of her business which has revenues of about $2.5B worldwide.  Ms. Haas received a law degree from Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany before coming to Duke Law School, where she received an LL.M. in 1985 and her J.D. in 1987.

Scott Huettel
Scott Huettel is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, a faculty member of the Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and is the Director of Duke’s Center for Interdisciplinary Decision Science. His research focuses on the emerging field of “neuroeconomics.” This includes the study of how brain mechanisms underlie economic and social decisions as well as the effects of risk, certainty, and ambiguity on the decision making process. Mr. Huettel received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1999.

Sandra Johnson T’67
Sandra Johnson is a partner in the firm Johnson & Johnson, P.A., in Raleigh, NC.  She also teaches trial practice at UNC-Chapel and occasionally at Duke.  Ms. Johnson graduated from Duke Law in 1975, and has significant experience teaching trial advocacy through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Kip Johnson L’94
Kip Johnson practices with Womble Carlyle in the Research Triangle Park. His practice focuses on private equity and venture capital as well as representation of technology companies in the Research Triangle Park. He received his law degree from Duke in 1994.

Dan Katz L’83
Dan Katz is a partner at Williams & Connolly in Washington, DC. Mr. Katz is an experienced civil litigator who has worked in a broad set of substantive areas ranging from antitrust to real estate. He received his law degree from Duke in 1983.

Xiaoming Li L’90
Xiaoming Li is the head of the Beijing office of White & Case.  His practice focuses on corporate finance and capital markets transactions, and he is recognized as one of the top lawyers in China in those areas.  Mr. Li earned his law degree from Duke in 1990.

Artemis H. Malekpour, L'04
Artemis H. Malekpour, a partner in the consulting firm Malekpour & Ball, specializes in focus groups, jury selection, and case strategy. With a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s in Health Care Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Artemis spent a number of years at UNC Hospitals working with children and adolescents with psychotic disorders. She then earned her J.D. with honors from Duke Law. She co-authored the chapter “Public and Private Sector Involvement in Managed Mental Health Care” in Managed Care & Public Health, is featured in Trial Guides’ How to do Your Own Focus Groups, and wrote updates for the new edition of David Ball on Damages. A member of the North Carolina State Bar, Artemis consults on a wide variety of cases across the country, dealing with case weaknesses, maximizing strengths, developing Rules and Reptilian strategies and helping to apply the techniques from Damages. Artemis and her partner David Ball are the only trial consulting firm in the country qualified to teach Reptilian advocacy methods.

Colm McInerney L'07
Colm McInerney is an associate in Litigation and International Arbitration at Skaaden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York. Mr. McInerney has been published in international journals on a range of arbitration issues. He received his Bachelor of Business & Law degree and his LL.M. in Commercial law from University College Dublin in 2005 and 2006 respectively.  Mr. McInerney received an LL.M. from Duke in 2007.

Ryan McLeod L’07
Ryan McLeod is a Litigation Associate at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. Mr. McLeod also co-teaches a transactional litigation seminar at Columbia University  and writes frequently on issues involving governance and M&A. He graduated from Ursinus College in 2004 and received his J.D. from Duke University in 2007.

José Meirelles
José Carlos Junqueira S. Meirelles is a partner at Pinheiro Netto Advogados in São Paulo, Brazil. Mr. Mereilles specializes in corporate finance and has written on securitization and structured finance in Brazil. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois School of Law. Mr. Mereilles  received an LL.B. degree from São Paulo University in 1986 and an LL.M. from the University of Illinois in 1989.

Bo Phillips L’78
Bo Phillips is a partner at ReedSmith in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Mr. Phillips has extensive experience as a business defense litigator and has argued numerous class action lawsuits. He has also written extensively on class action and complex litigation and is a frequent speaker on these topics. Mr. Phillips received his J.D. from Duke University in 1978.

Michael Platt
Michael Platt is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University School of Medicine, a faculty member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, and Director of Duke’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. His research interests concern the brain mechanisms involved in various aspects of decision-making. Mr. Platt received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for Neural Science at New York University.

Walter Rogers T’74
Walter Rogers is a partner at Smith Anderson in Raleigh, NC.  He practices primarily in the area of corporate taxation, and has extensive experience in commercial transactions and corporate formation.  Mr. Rogers graduated from Duke University in 1974 and received his law degree from Stanford in 1977.

Peter Romatowski
Peter Romatowski is a partner at Jones Day in Washington, DC, where he is the chair of the Securities Regulation and SEC Enforcement practice group.  He regularly represents corporations and corporate officers in a wide range of regulatory and criminal matters related to securities.  Mr. Romatowski received his law degree from Georgetown in 1975.

Len Simon L’73
Len Simon is of counsel to the law firm of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd in San Diego, California. He focuses his practice on complex litigation in securities and antitrust. In the course of his practice, Mr. Simon has argued before several Federal Circuit courts and the United States Supreme Court. He received his law degree from Duke in 1973.

Pate Skene
Pate Skene is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University School of Medicine. His research interests include the effects of genetics and neural mechanisms on social cognition and how that may influence social policy and the law.  Specifically, Mr. Skene seeks to use neurobiology in understanding police and prosecutorial errors leading to wrongful convictions.  He received his Ph.D in Molecular Biology and Neural Sciences from Washington University in 1980 and is currently a second year law student at Duke.

Tom Small T’67
Judge Tom Small is a recently retired bankruptcy judge from the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.  Judge Small served 26 years on the bench, and is widely recognized as one of the primary authors of Chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code and the creator of the Chapter 11 fast-track for small businesses.  Judge Small graduated from Duke University and received his law degree from Wake Forest.

Paul Sun L'89
Paul Sun is a partner at Ellis & Winters in Raleigh, NC. Mr. Sun specializes in business litigation and appeals and is an experienced civil and criminal appellate lawyer.  Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, and North Carolina Super Lawyers have all recognized him for legal excellence.  Mr. Sun graduated from Wittenburg University in 1979 and received his J.D. from Duke University in 1989.

Meredith Turner L’03
Meredith Turner is a senior associate in the litigation department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York.  Ms. Turner also teaches legal writing at Fordham University School of Law.  She received her B.A. from Princeton University in 1999, and her J.D. and M.A. from Duke University in 2003.

Judge Mary Ellen Williams L’77
Judge Williams is on the United States Court of Federal Claims. Prior to her appointment in 2003, she served as an administrative judge on the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals. She is also a former partner at the law firm of Janis, Schuelke & Weschler and previously served as an assistant United States attorney in the Department of Justice’s Civil Division. Judge Williams received her J.D. from Duke University in 1977.