Susan Salmon

Susie Salmon is Director of Legal Writing and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. She also coaches the College of Law's ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition teams and supervises the writing-fellow program. Professor Salmon's scholarship explores how longstanding practices and values in legal education affect access to justice, bias in the profession, and the legal profession as a whole; her recent scholarship also examines the role of rhetoric in the law-school curriculum and its potential impact on lawyer and law-student well-being. A nationally recognized expert on moot court, Professor Salmon co-authored the Legal Writing Institute’s Moot Court Advisors Handbook. She also has written a popular monthly column on legal writing—"The Legal Word"—in Arizona Attorney, the magazine of the State Bar of Arizona, and she frequently presents to local, national, and international audiences on issues related to legal writing and advocacy. Trained as a commercial litigator, with nine years of experience at large law firms in Los Angeles and Tucson, Professor Salmon remains active in the legal community, serving on the Steering Committee of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the Arizona Women Lawyers Association and on the organization's State Board. She remains an active member of the Arizona State Bar. Professor Salmon is also a leader in the national legal-writing community, having served on the Boards of Directors of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute.

Curriculum Vitae

SSRN Published Papers

Representative Publications

• Treating Professionals Professionally: Requiring Security of Position for All Skills-Focused Faculty Under ABA Accreditation Standard 405(C) and Eliminating 405(D), 98 Or. L. Rev. 1 (2020) (co-author, with J. Lyn Entrikin et al.).
• Reconstructing the Voice of Authority, 51 Akron L. Rev. 143 (2017), also published in Legal Writing Institute's Monograph on Moot Court.
• Shedding the Uniform: Beyond a "Uniform System of Citation" to a More Efficient Fit, 99 Marq. L. Rev. 763 (2016).
• "The Legal Word" - monthly column in Arizona Attorney Magazine, October 2013 - present.
• Complete List of Publications

Education

• J.D. University of California, Hastings College of the Law
  2000
  Graduated magna cum laude; Order of the Coif
• B.A. University of California, Los Angeles
  1993

Admitted to Practice

• Arizona
  2006
• California
  2000

Work Experience

• Director of Legal Writing & Clinical Professor of Law
  James E. Rogers College of Law
  2017 - present
• Assistant Director of Legal Writing & Clinical Professor of Law
  James E. College of Law
  2015 - 2017
• Assistant Director of Legal Writing & Associate Clinical Professor of Law
  James E. Rogers College of Law
  2010 - 2015
• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law
  James E. Rogers College of Law
  2008 - 2009
• Associate
  Quarles & Brady LLP, Tucson, Arizona
  2006 - 2009
• Counsel
  O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California
  2005 - 2006
• Associate
  O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California
  2000 - 2005

Organizations

• Association of Legal Writing Directors
  • Member, Board of Directors
    2017 - 2020
  • Survey Committee
    2017
  • Website Committee Member
    2012 - 2014
  • Member
    2010 - present
• Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference
  • Conference Chair
    2020
  • Steering Committee
    2019 - present
  • Program Committee Chair
    2013 - 2015
  • Program Committee Member
    2012 - present
• Association of American Law Schools, Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
  • Awards Committee Member
    2020
  • Member, Program Committee
    2019
  • Outreach Committee Member
    2014 - 2015; co-chair 2017
  • Co-Chair, Committee on Committees
    2016
  • Subcommittee on Diversity Sourcebook
    2015
  • Media Committee Member
    2012 - 2014
  • Member
    2011 - present
• Legal Writing Institute
  • Member, Board of Directors
    2020 - present
  • Co-Chair, Moot Court Committee
    2014 - 2016
  • Co-Chair, Program Committee for Biennial Conference
    2015 - 2016
  • Moot Court Committee
    2010 - present
  • Member
    2010 - present
• Association of American Law Schools, Section on Teaching Methods
  • Member
    2016 - present
• Arizona Women Lawyer's Association (Southern Chapter)
  • President
    2017
  • State Board Member
    2017 - present
  • President-Elect
    2016
  • Vice-President
    2015
  • Secretary
    2014
  • Steering Committee Member
    2012 - present
  • Member
    2006 - present

Public & Institutional Service

• Humane Society of Southern Arizona
  Board member, 2008 - 2017; Of Counsel, 2008 - 2012; Vice-President, 2012 - 2014; Chair, 2014 - 2016
• Volunteer Attorney, Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project
  2006 - 2012

Awards

• Edith Sayre Auslander Established Visionary Award
  2020
• Rocky Mountain Award
  2016
• Winner, 2009 Arizona Daily Star "40 Under 40"
  2009
• Volunteer Lawyers Program, Pima County New Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year
  2007