Preparing Students for the NextGen Bar Exam: Incorporating Formative Assessments into your Classroom

Section on Teaching Methods

Date: Friday, September 20th from 12 – 1 pm ET/11 am – 12 pm CT/10 – 11 am MT/9- 10 am PT

The NextGen Bar Exam is coming to a state near you. This Webinar will feature panelists who have developed NextGen-oriented formative assessments and provide you with ideas you can implement into your classroom this fall.

*Registration is Required

Presenters

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Megan Chaney, Co-Director, Criminal Justice Field Placement Clinic & Professor of Law, Nova Southeastern Shepard Broad College of Law

Professor Chaney joined Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in the Summer of 2013 bringing with her formidable classroom teaching, clinical administration and criminal practice experience. In the Summer of 2015, Professor Chaney was appointed to serve as the first Director of Trial & Appellate Advocacy at the Shepard Broad College of Law to help fortify the advocacy pillar of the law school’s global initiative. At the law school, Professor Chaney co-directs the Criminal Justice Field Placement clinic, teaches Criminal Law, Trial Advocacy and Professional Responsibility while also coaching competitive trial and moot court teams.

Before joining NSU, Professor Chaney was the Director of Clinical Programs and Experiential Learning and an Associate Professor of Law at University of La Verne College of Law in Southern California where she taught Evidence, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Trial Advocacy, Lawyering Skills Practicum, and Professional Responsibility. She was also the founding faculty advisor for the award-winning La Verne Trial Team. Professor Chaney was promoted to Associate Professor of Law in 2012.Professor Chaney was appointed Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in 2006 where she taught Criminal Procedure and co-directed the Juvenile Justice Clinic. Professor Chaney was a Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow and Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School from 2004-2006. While at Yale, she worked with Professor Ronald. S. Sullivan, Jr., former Director of Public Defender Services in Washington, D.C. She supervised students representing clients accused of felony crimes in Connecticut and co-taught Criminal Defense Theory & Ethics.

Professor Chaney’s experience includes serving as an Assistant Public Defender at the Miami-Dade County Public Defender’s Office. She is proud of the clinical education she received in both the Criminal Law and Criminal Appellate Clinics at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan. Professor Chaney has spoken at numerous academic conferences throughout the United States, including the AALS Clinical Conference, the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, the Wells Adoption Conference at Capital Law School, and the CALI Conference for Law School Computing. In the fall of 2007, she helped develop and teach the training curriculum for the Western Juvenile Defender Center at the National Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit. Her latest articles about post-adjudicatory juvenile defense were published by the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy & Capital Law Review.

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Jennifer Gregg, Assistant Director of Academic Success; Rank of Instructor, Ohio Northern University

Jennifer Gregg joined ONU Law in 2021 and serves as Assistant Director of Academic Success. Professor Gregg graduated from Miami University with a double major in Public Relations and Journalism. She then worked as a legal secretary at a medium sized law firm in Cleveland, OH. After two years, Professor Gregg left the law firm to attend law school at Michigan State University; graduating magna cum laude in 2007. After passing the Virginia Bar Exam, she began her career as a lawyer at a small law firm in Alexandria, VA. From there, she worked at George Mason University School of Law as the Judicial Education Coordinator at the Law & Economic Center, then as Senior Associate at Keithley Law, and as an Associate at Malinowski Hubbard, PLLC

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Melissa Kidder, Associate Professor of Law; Director of Legal Clinics, Ohio Northern University

BFA ‘05, JD ‘08, graduated from Ohio Northern University in 2005 with a BFA and degrees in musical theatre and criminal justice. Rather than going into theatre, she decided to go to law school and graduated from the Pettit College of Law in 2008. She began her career as a staff attorney at the Ohio 3rd District Court of Appeals and then came to ONU as assistant director of academic support. Having an opportunity to practice law, she went to work for Eastman & Smith Ltd. as an associate attorney in the estate planning section. She was thrilled to return to ONU as director of legal research and writing, and she now serves as the director of legal clinics and externships and assistant professor of law.

Moderator

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Kelly Gamble, Assistant Professor of Law; Director of Academic Excellence,

Kelly Gamble teaches Lawyering, Professional Responsibility, and Practical Writing for lawyers. She also directs Willamette’s Academic Excellence programming, including the Academic Excellence Fellowship.

Before coming to Willamette, Gamble had experience in both litigation and transactional practice. She was an associate in the Employment, Labor, and OSHA section at Vinson & Elkins, LLP in Houston. In addition to day-to-day client counseling, her practice included discrimination litigation, non-competition and restrictive covenant matters, employment agreements and separation agreements, and worker safety OSHA and MSHA matters. She represented clients in federal discrimination, harassment, and retaliation litigation, including both trial representation and appellate briefs, and in front of the Texas Workforce Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Gamble also has experience in an of counsel capacity with transactional practice. Her work included drafting and reviewing purchase-sale agreements, services agreements, and other business-to-business documents.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Gamble taught high school English, AP Rhetoric and Composition, and AP Literature and Composition in Sugar Land, Texas.