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Laurie C. Kadoch
Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Legal Skills & Values Program
(305) 348-0199 (phone)
Laurie.Kadoch@fiu.edu

• B.A. Boston University
• M.A. Dartmouth College
• M.A. Public Policy and Management, University of Southern Maine
• J.D. University of Maine School of Law

With 15 years of law teaching experience, Professor Kadoch comes to FIU most recently from the Vermont Law School where she was a member of the law faculty from 1997-2007. She has teaching expertise in Family Law, Dispute Resolution, Conflict and Communication, Legal Reasoning, and a broad spectrum of legal skills curriculum. Professor Kadoch taught Family Law as a visiting professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law during the summers of 1999 and 2000. For a number of summers she was a Faculty member of the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program at Widener University School of Law. In 2005 she coached the national winners of the ABA’s Law Student Negotiation Competition which represented the United States in the International Negotiation Competition in Dublin sponsored by the Law Society of Ireland. Professor Kadoch was recently selected to represent the United States as a judge in the International Client Counseling Competition. She brings to the teaching of law the combined experiences of over ten years of entrepreneurial business management and an active client centered law practice. She graduated cum laude and 4th in her law school class with joint degrees in Law and Public Policy and Management. Upon graduation she joined the law firm of Verrill and Dana in Portland, Maine as a member of the civil litigation department and became head of the firm’s Family Law practice within two years. As a member of the Maine Bar, Professor Kadoch’s accomplishments included being appointed a Dedimus Justice by the Governor of Maine; appointed a member of task forces on alternative dispute resolution and guardians ad litem and was a recipient of a Maine Bar Foundation Special Recognition Award for Outstanding Pro-Bono Service. She publishes in the areas of family law and narrative and the law.

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