Samantha A. Moppett

Biography

Upon graduating from law school, Professor Moppett clerked for the Justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. Subsequently, she worked as a litigation associate in Boston, Massachusetts. Professor Moppett began her teaching career at Suffolk University Law School. She taught at Suffolk from 1997-1999. Prior to returning to Suffolk University Law School in 2002, she was a Legal Writing Professor at Arizona State University College of Law in Tempe, Arizona, where she taught the first-year Legal Research and Writing course, Appellate Advocacy, Advanced Legal Writing, and Intensive Legal Research and Writing. She has also visited at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, where she taught Advanced Appellate Advocacy, and at Arizona State University College of Law where she taught Intensive Legal Research and Writing. Professor Moppett is actively engaged in the national legal writing community.

Education 

• Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
  Juris Doctor, cum laude, May 1995
• Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
  Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, June 1991 

Selected Publications

Articles

• Channel Your Inner Kindergartner: Fostering a Culture Conducive to Creativity in Legal Practice, 47 MITCHELL HAMLINE L. Rev. 686 (2021)
• Digital Pro Bono: Leveraging Technology to Provide Access to Justice, 92 St. John’s L. Rev. 551 (2018) (with Kathleen Elliott Vinson)
• Closing the Legal Aid Gap One Research Question at a Time, 8 HLRe 15 (2017) (with Kathleen Elliott Vinson)
• Control-Alt-Incomplete? Using Technology to Assess "Parseltongues", 12 CHI. KENT J. INTELL. PROP. L. 77 (2013)
• Lawyering Outside the Box: Confronting the Creativity Crisis, 37 S. ILL. U. L.J. 253 (2013)

Books

• LEGAL WRITING: PROCESS, ANALYSIS, AND ORGANization (8th ed. 2022) (with Linda H. Edwards)
• MINDFUL LAWYERING: THE KEY TO CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING (2018) (with Shailini George & Kathleen Elliott Vinson)

Bar Admittance

• MA
• Federal District Court of MA