Professional Responsibility, Research and Writing I and II

Professor Davis graduated summa cum laude and Order of the Coif from The Ohio State University in 1995. While at Ohio State, she was a member of the Ohio State Law Journal and chief justice of the Moot Court Governing Board. She began her legal career as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Frederick P. Stamp, Jr., judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. She later practiced in the areas of litigation, employment and taxation. Professor Davis began her legal teaching career in 2000 at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Professor Davis is on the board of directors of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and is a member of the editorial board for legal writing: Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. She is a regular presenter at regional and national legal writing conferences. Professor Davis is currently pursuing a doctorate in human communication, and her research and scholarship focuses on legal method and writing, law and rhetoric, and work/life law.

Davis teaches or has taught first-year legal research and writing, advanced legal writing, legal drafting, intensive legal writing, scholarly legal writing, and professional responsibility. She is an affiliate member of the Florida Bar Association and has been admitted to practice in Arizona, Ohio and West Virginia.