Heidi K. Brown

Associate Professor of Law
 

Heidi K. Brown joined the NYLS faculty in fall 2011 to teach Legal Practice. She was previously an associate professor at Chapman University School of Law in Orange, California, where she taught Legal Research and Writing, Civil Discovery and Depositions, and an upper-level Legal Writing Skills course. Professor Brown also critiqued hundreds of practice bar exam essays as part of Chapman’s supplemental bar preparation program. Professor Brown has also served as Of Counsel at the Washington, D.C. area-based construction litigation firm of Moore & Lee, LLP, where she specialized in complex brief-writing for cases pending in federal and state courts throughout the United States. Previously she was a senior litigation associate with Thacher, Proffitt & Wood in New York City and a litigation associate with Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald LLP in Virginia. Professor Brown is the author of six editions of the civil procedure treatise, Fundamentals of Federal Litigation, published by Thomson-West Publishing, and the recipient of a 2011 research grant from the Association of Legal Writing Directors and Legal Writing Institute, for her developing article titled, “Increasing Our Emotional Intelligence In the Legal Writing Classroom to Engage, Motivate, and Coach the Facebook Generation of Law Students.” She is a member of the bars of New York, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. She has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences with Thomson-Reuters for whom she has presented litigation readiness programs and legal writing training seminars.