Professor of Legal Writing
B.F.A. New York University
J.D. University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Before joining the law faculty in 2002, Professor Pepper was a
senior associate at the law firm of Winston & Strawn LLP,
concentrating in complex civil litigation. While in law school, she
was an Associate Editor of the Journal of International Business
Law. Professor Pepper is a member of the American Bar
Association and the New York State Bar Association. She
co-authored and updates the “Joinder, Consolidation and Severance”
chapter of Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts (2d ed.
West) and co-authors the annual updates to the Arbitration chapter
of the New York Lawyer’s Deskbook and Formbook. Professor
Pepper created two CLE programs, “Stop Thinking Like a Lawyer,
Start Thinking Like a Judge: Improving Briefs Through Structural
and Narrative Techniques,” and “Where Do I Begin? Reasoning and
Writing in the Early Years of Practice,” which she presents to law
firms and bar associations. In addition to teaching Legal Research
and Writing and Pretrial Advocacy, Professor Pepper created and
teaches two seminars, Law Through Film, and Fact-Writing and
Persuasion in Legal Documents. She is the co-faculty advisor
to the St. John’s Moot Court Honor Society, for which she developed
the “Moot Court Boot Camp,” an intensive advocacy practicum. Her
scholarly publications include The Case for “Thinking Like a
Filmmaker”: Using Lars von Trier's Dogville as a Model for Writing
a Statement of Facts, Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (Vol.
14 2008).