The Source- Reporters' Guide to Legal Experts - 2008-2009 - (Page 15) Hugh Lee Director, Elder Law Clinic Email: hlee@law.ua.edu Phone: 205-348-4960 Expertise: Elder Law, Election Law Professor Lee currently serves as the director of the Elder Law Clinic programs. He holds a B.A. from Davidson College and a J.D. from Florida State University College of Law. While in law school, Professor Lee served as a Public Service Fellow and clerked for the Federal Death Penalty Resource Center. Prior to joining the University of Alabama School of Law, Professor Lee worked as a litigator for the Legal Services Corporation of Alabama, where he handled cases in consumer law, domestic relations, housing law, employment law, bankruptcy law, and civil rights. Since joining the law school, he has supervised student research in the Alabama Lawyers Research Service Program, and has taught housing law, legal writing, moot court programs, and the civil clinic and elder law clinic course components. Professor Lee has published articles in the areas of consumer fraud, domestic relations, and election law. He has delivered CLE lectures on legal research methods. He is a member of the American Inns of Court, American Bar Association, Alabama State Bar Association and the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association. Professor Lee was awarded the State Bar Association’s “Statewide Pro Bono Award” in 1998. Of particular interest, Professor Lee served on the legal team representing the plaintiff in Taylor v. Martin County Canvassing Board, one of the absentee ballot cases in which the 2000 Florida presidential election was contested. UA Law offers an exchange program with Australian National University. Director, Law Library Professor of Law E-mail: jleonard@law.ua.edu Phone: 205-348-5927 James Leonard Expertise: Legal Research, Disability Law Professor Leonard received his B.A., M.L.S., and J.D. from the University of North Carolina. While in law school, he was a member of the North Carolina Law Review. Professor Leonard served as director of the Law Library at Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law from 1986 - 1997 and directed the legal writing and research program from 1986 - 1992. Professor Leonard recently published “Title VII and the Protection of Minority Language Rights: The Search for a Justification” in the Missouri Law Review and “The Equality Trap: How Reliance on Traditional Civil Rights Concepts has Rendered Title I of the ADA Ineffective” in the Case Western Reserve Law Review. He also taught a course entitled “The Book in the Manuscript Era” at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School during summer 2007. Additionally, he teaches courses and writes in the field of disabilities law. 15
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