Event Title
Teaching Right-Brain Thinking: Letting the Cat Out of the Bag
Location
Seminar Rooms 4&5 at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA
Start Date
5-8-2016 2:00 PM
End Date
5-8-2016 2:25 PM
Aug 5th, 2:00 PM
Aug 5th, 2:25 PM
Teaching Right-Brain Thinking: Letting the Cat Out of the Bag
Seminar Rooms 4&5 at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA
Speaker Bios
Norman E. Plate, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Norman E. Plate joined the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law in 2015. He teaches courses in Lawyering Skills and Advanced Legal Writing. Professor Plate came to UMKC from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, in Lansing, Michigan, where he had been a Professor since April 2005. Before that, he worked as a Legal Research and Writing Instructor at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, for one year. In addition to teaching law, Professor Plate was the Executive Director of Scribes – The American Society of Legal Writers from January 2009 until September 2014.
Before his teaching career, Professor Plate served in several capacities with the Ohio Attorney General’s office. He began with the office in 1999 as an Assistant Solicitor with the Major Appeals Group and an Assistant Attorney General in the Health and Human Services Section, Human Services Unit. From there, he served as the Deputy Attorney General/Assistant Chief of the Capital Crimes Section, the Senior Deputy Attorney General/Chief of the Corrections Litigation Section, and then a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Corrections Litigation Section. Before going to Ohio, Professor Plate served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Utah Attorney General’s Office for four years. His career there included practicing in the Litigation Division, Civil Appeals Section; the Public Affairs Division, Law Enforcement Section; and the Criminal Appeals Division. From 1991 to 1995, Professor Plate served as a law clerk to the Hon. Leonard H. Russon, first at the Utah Court of Appeals, and then at the Utah Supreme Court. He also served as a law clerk to the Hon. William D. Stiehl, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois, in 1988 and 1989.