Professors Pinder and Sigman collectively bring over 15
years of law teaching experience, and have taught at
Emory School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center,
University of Texas, and Atlanta’s John Marshall Law
School. Both have extensive first-year legal research
and writing teaching experience, and both have taught
doctrinal and skills classes including: Legal Research
and Writing I and II, Contracts, Remedies, Professional
Responsibility, Pre-trial Practice, Negotiations, Client
Interviewing and Counseling, Depositions, and Trial
Advocacy. More importantly, both professors have a
strong commitment to student development and an abiding
determination to see law students reach their full potential.
Kamina Pinder, Associate Professor
Professor Pinder taught law students pedagogy at
Georgetown University School of Law. She then taught
first-year Legal Writing at University of Texas School
of Law where she was also hired by the school to tutor
law students who were struggling in their first-year of
law school.
Professor Pinder has also taught a number of skills courses,
including first-year Legal Writing, at Atlanta’s John
Marshall School of Law. She currently teaches Contracts,
Remedies, Professional Responsibility, and Client
Interviewing and Counseling. She has presented at the
Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) “Attitude
is Essential” summer pre-law preparatory program for
entering first-year law students.
Professor Pinder is a graduate of Smith College (B.A.),
New York University School of Law (J.D.), and Georgetown
University Law Center (LL.M). Before joining the faculty
of Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, she was a program
attorney at the United States Department of Education
Office of the General Counsel.
"I began law school in
2006 and was assigned to Professor Kamina
Pinder’s legal writing course. Even though I
came to law school with an undergraduate
English degree, I quickly realized that my
writing lacked the conciseness and structure
that was utilized by successful legal
writers. By the conclusion of my first year,
after having two semesters of her writing
instruction, I ranked first in my class. It
was evident, pursuant to the comments I
received on my exams, that the writing
instruction I had gained from Professor
Pinder directly impacted my exam grades. I
don’t think that it was a coincidence that
the top 10% of my graduating class had been
in one of her writing classes."
Tanya M. - Class of
2010, John Marshall Law School
Kamina Pinder Recognition:
Scott Sigman,
Associate Professor
Professor Sigman taught first-year Legal Writing at
Emory University School of Law, and was the
Director of the Legal Skills and Professionalism program
at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School. Professor Sigman
has also taught Professional Responsibility, Trial
Advocacy, Advanced Appellate Advocacy, and a host of
other skills-based classes.
Professor Sigman practiced in the litigation department
of Baker and McKenzie, which was at the time the largest
law firm in the world. He also practiced with Foley &
Lardner, one of the largest firms in the country. He is
a graduate of West Virginia State University (B.S.),
University of Charleston (M.A.), West Virginia
University College of Law (J.D.). In law school
Professor Sigman was the Chief Justice of the Moot Court
Board and a member of the National Moot Court Team, a
Teaching Assistant for the Legal Research and Writing
Program, and a Student Attorney in the Legal Clinic. As
a result of his various achievements, he was named the
1996 Outstanding Graduate and admitted to the Order of
the Barristers.
"As a first year legal writer, I was
fortunate to be one of Professor Scott
Sigman's students. Not only did he teach me
research and advocacy skills to produce
legal documents, but the simplicity and
clarity of Professor Sigman's explanations
and analyses of the law applied across my
doctrinal classes and contributed to my
first-year success. By the time I had taken
two semesters of Professor Sigman's class, I
had all A's in my doctrinal classes and a #1
class rank. I attribute a significant
portion of that success to the way Professor
Sigman simply and concisely presented the
tools of legal analysis and how to apply
them in all aspects of law school education.
I cannot more highly recommend an educator
to a person looking to prepare for entry to
law school than I do Professor Scott Sigman."
Tyler B.
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