Barbara Glesner
Fines
Associate Dean
for Faculty Development
Ruby M. Hulen
Professor of Law
Office:
(816)
235-2380 (phone)
http://www.glesner-fines.net
EDUCATION
LL.M.
1986
Senior
Editor, Yale Journal of International Law
Research
Assistant to Professors Boris Bittker & W. Michael Reisman
J.D. (cum
laude) 1983
Assistant
Managing Editor,
Member,
Teaching
Fellow - Legal Research & Writing Program
B. Ph.
1980
Phi
Kappa Phi honorary,
Selected
as Distinguished Alumnus 1998
TEACHING POSITIONS
Full-time
Positions
1986 -
Present
Current
Courses Taught: Professional Responsibility, Ethical Issues in the
Representation of Families, Family Law, Seminar in Family Violence (co-teach),
Poverty Law, Entrepreneurial Lawyering: Solo & Small Firm Practice
(co-teach)
Current
Clinical Courses: Legal Aid Externship, Family Court Clerkship (co-teach).
Past
Courses Taught: Guardian ad Litem Workshop (co-teach), Family Law & Film, Poverty
Law, Property I & II, Civil Procedure I & II, Remedies Jurisprudence,
Lawyering Skills, Federal Income Tax, Federal Tax Fraud & Procedure, Federal
Jurisdiction, Seminar in Great Lawyers
1985—1986
Visiting
Assistant Professor of Law
Courses taught: Civil Procedure I
& II, Business Organizations
1983-84
Visiting
Instructor of Law
Courses
taught: Legal Writing & Appellate Advocacy
Visiting
Positions:
Spring
2003
Visiting
Professor of Law
Courses:
Professional Responsibility, Civil Procedure
Summers
1992, 1994
University
of
Visiting
Professor of Law
Courses:
Professional Responsibility, Lawyering Skills, Law Practice Management
Summer
1992
Visiting
Professor of Law
Course:
Civil Procedure II
Summer
1985 & 1998
Instructor
Council
for Legal Educational Opportunity Summer Institute
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Ethical Issues in Family Representation (2010 Carolina Academic Press)
Professional Responsibility: A Collaborative Approach
(Context and
Skills Series)(forthcoming 2011 Carolina Academic Press)
BOOK
CHAPTERS & ESSAYS:
Glesner
Fines, Barbara. Balancing Interests and Pursuing Priorities is Serving Victims of
Domestic Violence - A Comparison of Approaches in the
Chemersky,
Erwin and Glesner Fines, Barbara. Constitutionality
of the Bankruptcy Reform Act. In Attorney
Liability in Bankruptcy (ABA 2006)
Glesner
Fines, Barbara. The 10 Most Common
Ethical Rainmaking Mistakes Lawyers Make. In How to Capture and Keep Clients: Marketing Strategies for Lawyers (ABA
2005)
Teaching Family Law in Friedland & Hess, Teaching the
Remittitur and Additur, Damages Deskbook (Mo. Bar 2001)
Landlord Liability for Crime, Commercial Leasing (
JOURNAL
ARTICLES:
Pressures Toward Mediocrity in
the Representation of Children, 37
Fundamental Principles and
Challenges of Humanizing Legal Education, 47 Washburn
Law Review 313 (2008)
Ethical Issues in Collaborative Lawyering,
21 Journal of
Reprinted in Jana Singer & Jane Murphy, eds., Resolving Family Conflicts (Ashgate 2009)
Reprinted in
With
Cathy Madsen, Caring, Competence and the
Family Law Attorney, 75 UMKC Law Review
965 (2007)
Reprinted
in the January/February and March/April 2009 issues of the Minnesota
Family Law Journal.
With
Kisthardt, Mary Kay. Making Room at the
Table: Reconceptualizing the Legal System’s Use of Child Custody Evaluation,
Family Court Review, (Spring
2005)
Almost Pro Bono: Appointed
Attorney Representation in Family Court, 72 UMKC Law
Review 337 (2003).
The Impact of Expectations on
Teaching and Learning Law,
38 Gonzaga Law Review 89
(2002/03).
From Representing
"Clients" to Serving "Recipients": Transforming the Role of
the IV-D Child Support Enforcement Attorney, 67 Fordham
Law Review 2155 (1999).
Competition and the Curve, 65 UMKC Law Review 879 (Summer 1997).
Post-Conference Reflection:
Looking Ahead at Lawyer Liability to Non-Clients, South Texas Law Review 37
Joinder of Tort Claims in
Divorce Actions,
12 Journal of the Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers 285 (Winter 1994).
Election of Remedies in
Landlords as Cops: Tort,
Nuisance & Forfeiture Standards Imposing Liability on Landlords for Crime
on the Premises,
42 Case
The Ethics of Emergency
Lawyering, 5
Fear and Loathing in the
WEB
PUBLICATIONS
Teaching and Learning Law -- A Resource
Compendium on Legal Education Pedagogy http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/profiles/glesnerfines/bgfedu.htm (includes a number of my short articles on
various teaching topics)
Stress & Legal Education (1999 web
article at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/profiles/glesnerfines/bgf-strs.htm)
Reprinted
in
Law School Materials for Success
(1998)(distributed to law schools through Teaching & Learning Law website: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/profiles/glesnerfines/success-front.htm)
Researching Professional Responsibility
(1997) (web article at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/profiles/glesnerfines/bgf-13.htm)
The Rewards and Risks of Authoring a Web
Site, In Lessons from The Web, Jurist (August 1998)
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/lesaug98.htm
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS:
Ross Essay: Clients as Teachers,
Annotated Bibliography: Elder
Law, 1995-2000, 16
Journal Of The Academy Of Matrimonial Lawyers 593 (2000).
Unethical Honesty?
Business Law Today
(May 1997).
The Same Old Alternative:
Ending It: Dispute Resolution in
PUBLISHED
TEACHING MATERIALS:
Dispute
Resolution Problems
The
Problem with Paint,
Linda
Lender v. Bobby Borrower, (Willamette University Center for Dispute Resolution
1997).
Minerals
and Memories in SALSICH & JOHNSON, CASES & MATERIALS IN PROPERTY,
Teachers Guide (1990).
Lesson
Guide: Triplett v. Beuckman in SHOBEN & TABB, REMEDIES: CASES AND PROBLEMS,
Teachers Guide (2d ed. 1996).
Computer
Assisted Instruction Programs (published through CALI http:www.cali.org)
• Interpreting the Language of
Conveyances (1996)
• Sources of Law Regulating the Practice
of Law (1999)
• Admission to Practice (2000)
• Bases for Attorney Discipline (2000)
• Choosing and Withdrawing from
Representation (2001)
• Fees (2002)
• Client or Not? (2002)
• Equitable Remedies - An Overview
(2003)
• Characterizing Remedies (2003)
• History of Equity (2003)
• The Policy Debate over Attorney's Fees
Rules (2004)
• Tracing (2004)
• Election of Remedies Doctrines (2004)
• Non-Economic Damages: Proof and
Argument (2004)
• Recovery of Attorneys Fees (2004)
• Distinguishing Confidentiality &
Attorney-Client Privilege (2007)
• Appeal of Injunctions (2007)
• Active Listening Skills (2007
EDITORIAL
POSITIONS
Editor/Author, Family Law Prof Blog (with
associate editor, Professor Nancy VerSteegh) 2004-2009
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/family_law/
Advisory
Board, Legal Education Abstracts, (SSRN 2005 – 2008)
Editorial
Board Member, Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction, (2002 – 2007)
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP AND
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
University-Wide:
National
·
Association of
·
Officer,
Secretary
98-99; Vice-President 99-2000, President, 2000-01
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS ON
TEACHING
“Incorporating
Formative Assessment into the Classroom” Legal Education at the Crossroads III,
“Teaching
Controversial Subjects”
“20
Questions for Assessment” Assessment Plenary, Legal Education at the
Crossroads,
"Best
Practices in Legal Education - Formation of Professional Identity,"
"Laptops
in the Classroom," Program Chair, AALS Teaching Methods Section,
“Themes
of Humanizing Legal Education," Keynote, Humanizing Legal Education
Conference,
“Legal
Education at the Crossroads”, Invited Discussant,
“New
Directions in Teaching and Learning," Conference Organizer, Institute for
"Learning
by Doing: Service Learning & Field Observation," Institute For
"Working
with Students: Practical Strategies for Active Stress Intervention," AALS
Workshop on the Search for Balance in the Whirlwind of
"Interdisciplinary
Perspectives in Teaching Family Law," Institute for Law School Teaching
Spring Conference ,
"Family Law Education Reform," Invited Discussant, AFCC/Hofstra Law
School Conference on Family Law Reform, 2004.
"Diffusing a Curriculum with
Diversity," National Association for Mulitcultural Education National
Conference,
"How Today's Students Learn ,"
AWARDS & GRANTS
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS