University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

The urban public law school with a small liberal arts feel

Mary Kay O'Malley Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Child and Family Services Clinic; B.A. (St. Mary-of-the-Woods College); M.A. (University of Missouri-Kansas City); J.D. (Washburn University) email 816-235-6298 Vita Professor O'Malley obtained her B.A. from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College near Terre Haute, Indiana and her M.A. from the University of Missouri-at Kansas City. After working as a social worker for the Missouri Division of Family Services for 13 years she returned to school and graduated cum laude from the Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas where she was an editor on both the Washburn Law Journal and the ABA Family Law Quarterly. Following law school Professor O'Malley was employed as a prosecuting attorney at the Jackson County Family Court for six years. She has been in private practice for the past two years specializing in juvenile and domestic relations cases, along with her partner, Peter Raith, who is an adjunct professor at UMKC teaching juvenile offender law. She is a court-certified family law mediator and has authored a chapter in the Missouri Bar Juvenile Law Deskbook. As director of the Child and Family Services Clinic, Professor O'Malley will be responsible for the day-to day legal work of the clinic and teaching the students in the clinic course. Representing the interests of children under the jurisdiction of the Division of Family Services, clinic students will participate in guardianship and termination of parental rights cases while learning about child advocacy practice and working to move children out of foster care and into permanent homes.