Joe Regalia

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Education

University of Michigan Law School

• 4.05 GPA, ranked first in class
• Certificate of Merit
• Daniel Grady Award
• Executive Board Member, Michigan Journal of Environmental Law
• Executive Director, Michigan Journal of International Law

University of Nevada, Reno

• Most outstanding graduate of the humanities
• Robb Law Scholar 

Academic Appointments

William S. Boyd School of Law

Peking University School of Transnational Law

U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

• Selected to teach annual series of legal writing workshops in the Pacific Islands for judges, staff, and attorney.

Loyola University Chicago School of Law

• Taught advanced legal writing, research, and practice
• Bar exam lecturer on all major subjects
• Developed and taught legal writing orientation programming

John Marshall Law School

• Taught advanced legal writing, research, and practice

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

• Adjunct/visiting professor of the year, 2017
• Taught legal writing including judicial writing and appellate advocacy
• Coached SOA moot court teams 
• Bar exam lecturer on all major subjects
• Regularly advised judicial clerkship applicants
• Founded and operated the Pro Se Bootcamp

• Write bi-monthly column on all aspects of legal writing and research
• Select articles with over 80,000 readers; total readership over 300,000
• Three-time Tech Lawyer blog award winner

Pro Se Boot Camp

• Founded and manage organization that teaches practical legal skills to

  high-risk members of the community

Great Lakes Environmental Law Center

• Research, write, and collaborate with leading experts on cutting-edge-water-law issues

Institute of Higher Learning

• Taught students who have been unsuccessful on the bar exam
• Created and teach law school success programs

Clerkships and Professional Appointments

Write.law

Thompson Reuters

King & Spalding LLP

Sidley Austin LLP

United States District Court, District of Nevada

United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit

United States District Court

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Univ. of Michigan, Office of General Counsel

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP

Works in Progress

Learning the Legal Writing Moves: One Step at a Time (Book)

• Identifies 100 effective legal writing techniques based on (1) sampling from over 70 major legal writing texts, (2) sampling from over 150 major writing texts, (3) techniques that have support in cognitive science, and (4) common techniques identified in a sample of over 200 legal documents authored by successful advocates

• Teaches these tools using the latest educational theories, including real-world examples and prompts to drill each technique

Applying Industrial Organizational Psychology to Legal Teams (Journal Article)

• Addresses core problems that plague legal-writing teams, including advocacy bias, differing feedback behaviors, poor feedback systems, lack of psychological safety, role ambiguity, group think, selfconsistency bias, lack of voice, and cognitive dissonance

Collaboration in the Trial Courts: Using Stare Decisis to Improve the Quality of Judicial Decision-making (Journal Article)

• Proposes a modified stare decisis model to encourage collaborative decision-making between trial court judges and develops data suggesting that that trial court collaboration would improve the quality of decision-making

Technology as a Skill: Strategies for Mastering Tech (Journal Article)

• Proposes a framework for learning and teaching legal technology as a skill rather than a product

Selected Publications and Presentations

Professional Activities and Memberships

Illinois Bar; California Bar

Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, Board member

American Association of Law School Technology Section, Committee member

Association of Legal Writing Directors

• Scholars Fora Committee Member
• Leadership Committee Member
• Publications Committee Member
• Teaching Workshops Committee Member
• Visiting Scholars Committee
• Diversity Committee 

UNLV Technology Committee 

American Bar Association, SEER Water Resources, Editor

Global Legal Writing Skills, Committee

Journal of Legal Writing Institute, Co-editor

American Bar Association 

• Chair, Government Law Committee, 2014
• Chair-elect, Government Law Committee, 2015
• Committee Vice Chair, Government Law Committee, 2014

Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, Member

Certified Mediator