Lecturer and Associate Director, Anderson Center - College of Law

Overview

The University of Illinois College of Law in Urbana Champaign seeks applicants to serve as the associate director of the Kimball R. and Karen Gatsis Center for Advocacy and Professionalism ("Anderson Center"). The associate director will also hold the faculty status of lecturer of law. The Anderson Center’s mission is to provide a world-class experience in advocacy and professional ethics that prepares and develops competent and professional advocates with essential skills to serve their community and zealously represent their clients in all manners of legal practice.

The Anderson Center focuses its efforts on three pillars:

• Provide, support, and teach innovative advocacy courses that integrate trial practice, rules of evidence, and professional ethics with a "learning while doing" approach.
• Support competitive mock trial, moot court, and alternative dispute resolution teams that compete in national competitions.
• Develop special programming, such as symposiums, advocacy competitions, and CLEs that explore and advance the intersection of advocacy and professionalism.

The Lecturer and Associate Director of the Anderson Center will assist the Director in all components of the Center’s mission. With the faculty status of lecturer of law, the Associate Director will be expected to teach one advocacy-related course each semester, as well as coach one competitive advocacy team each semester.

Teaching

• Teaching/Coaching law school advocacy teams (mock trial, moot court, or alternative dispute resolution) in both the fall and spring semesters
• Teaching an advocacy-related course in both the fall and spring semesters
• Teaching advocacy-related trainings throughout the fall and spring semesters to College of Law students
• Teaching advocacy-related trainings during the summer for College of Law students
• Teaching CLEs relating to advocacy to members of the Illinois bar and alumni
• Mentoring College of Law students on advocacy-related opportunities and the profession of law

Program Management

• Collaborating with the Anderson Center Director in the development of new and innovative courses for the advocacy program
• Collaborating with the Anderson Center Director in the development of online and live programs for the advocacy community
• Collaborating with the Anderson Center Director in the development of advocacy competitions that will be hosted and sponsored by the Center
• Collaborating with the Anderson Center Director in developing and executing selection procedures for advocacy-related teams
• Leading all efforts to host one external advocacy competition per semester; supervising student boards in their efforts to host internal advocacy competitions
• Collaborating with the Anderson Center Director in developing symposia, practice case files and problems, and advocacy-related scholarship and publications

Administration

• Assisting the Anderson Center Director with the administration and development of the mock trial program
• Assisting the Anderson Center Director with the administration of the moot court program
• Assisting the Anderson Center Director with the administration and development of the competitive Alternative Dispute Resolution Program

• Required:
  
  A state bar license; 3 years of practice experience; stellar academic credentials
• Preferred:
  Prior participation in law school advocacy competitions (moot court, trial team, ADR) or trial/appellate experience in practice; prior teaching or advocacy coaching experience

This is a 100% full-time Specialized Faculty position, appointed on a 12-month basis. The expected start date is as soon as possible after 8/16/2026. Salary range for this position is $80,000-$90,000 annually, commensurate with experience.

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