Meredith R. Miller Named Professor of Law
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Meredith R. Miller Named Professor of Law
July 21, 2016Dean Patricia Salkin is pleased to announce that Meredith R. Miller has been promoted to Professor of Law. She will continue to serve as Director of Solo and Small Practice Initiatives while teaching classes at Touro Law.
“Professor Miller is a talented legal educator and scholar who also provides exemplary service to the legal profession,” stated Dean Salkin. “She has demonstrated a keen ability to bring the real world practice of law into the classroom and is well regarded among her colleagues for bringing practical application of the law to life for her students.”
Meredith R. Miller joined the Touro Law Center faculty in Fall 2006 after serving for two years as an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia. Professor Miller teaches Contracts I, Contracts II, Business Organizations I, Business Organizations II, Employment Law and Workplace Law in Global Context. The students voted her “Professor of the Year” for 2008-2009 and 2012-2013.
In her role as Director of Solo and Small Practice Initiatives, Professor Miller provides support to the existing Touro Law post-graduate incubator, continues to develop Touro Law’s hands-on solo & small practice concentration and works to develop synergies between the incubator and the concentration curriculum.
Prior to teaching, Professor Miller served as a law clerk to the New York Court of Appeals. She also worked as a litigation associate at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City, where she litigated complex commercial and pro bono matters and served as a pro bono advisor to first year associates. Professor Miller has a varied legal background. She has worked in government and public interest organizations, at a small private practice and at a large national law firm. She continues to provide litigation consulting to other attorneys and direct representation to emerging and established businesses. She also serves as President of LeGaL, the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York.
She received her J.D., cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School, where she was an Executive Articles and Research Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review, an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Fellow and a Richardson Merit Scholar. She earned an LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple University Law School.
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