PROFESSOR JAMES DUANE

James Duane is a Professor at Regent Law School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he received the Faculty Excellence Award in the fall of 2002. He was also awarded the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award by the Virginia State Council of Higher Education for Virginia in 2002. He received his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College (1981), where he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School (1984). He clerked for the Hon. Michael A. Telesca of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, and the Hon. Ellsworth A. Van Graafeiland on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was senior associate at the law firm of Connors & Vilardo in Buffalo, New York, where he practiced civil litigation and criminal defense, and was trial counsel for all of the defendants in Schenck v . Pro-Choice Network of Western New York , 519 U.S. 357 (1997).

Professor Duane has taught at Regent Law School since 1991 in the areas of Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Trial Practice, and has published more than twenty articles in those fields. He is the co-author of Weissenberger's Federal Evidence along with Dean Glen Weissenberger of DePaul Law School, and is a contributing editor of Black's Law Dictionary . Since 1995, he has been a member of the faculty at the Trial Advocacy Institute conducted annually at the National Trial Advocacy College at the University of Virginia School of Law, and has also taught constitutional law at the National Litigation Academy.

Professor Duane has been interviewed about legal matters on television and radio, including National Public Radio's All Things Considered , and has testified before the Advisory Committee of the United States Judicial Conference on the Federal Rules of Evidence. He has lectured before lawyers and law professors at conferences and training sessions conducted by Hastings Law School, the College of William and Mary, the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association, and the office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. He is a member of the Boyd-Graves Conference of the Virginia Bar Association.