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Tel: 215.898.4628
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: dfrenkel@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Clinical Education
- Professional Responsibility
Bio
Douglas Frenkel, Practice Professor of Law and Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies, has been the architect of Penn’s nationally renowned clinical program since 1980.
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Douglas Frenkel, Practice Professor of Law and Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies, has been the architect of Penn’s nationally renowned clinical program since 1980. During this period, the program has expanded to include real case courses in litigation, transactional representation, mediation, legislation, child advocacy and transnational lawyering. He specializes in alternative dispute resolution generally and mediation in particular. He is the author of innovative teaching materials and videotapes in this field, frequently serves as a mediator in employment, commercial and institutional matters, and is currently writing a book on mediation skills and ethics for a major publisher.
Professor Frenkel’s other major area of expertise is legal ethics, having been a founding faculty member of the Law School's Center on Professionalism. He regularly teaches courses in legal ethics and consults with lawyers on matters of professional responsibility and lawyer liability.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Practice Professor of Law (1985 -); Clinical Director (1980 -); Lecturer/Clinical Supervisor and Clinical Director (1978-85)
Visiting Professor - University of Sydney, Columbia, Fordham, New York Law School
Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia, PA - Staff Managing Attorney (1973-78)
Law Clerk to the Hon. Theodore Spaulding, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (1972-73)
Representative Publications
THE PRACTICE OF MEDIATION: A VIDEO-INTEGRATED TEXT (with JAMES STARK) (Aspen Law & Business, forthcoming).
WEST'S PENNSYLVANIA FORMS AND COMMENTARY - Editor and contributing author of a multi-volume set of practitioner-oriented texts with forms in areas such as Civil and Criminal Procedure, Domestic Relations, Employment Law, Business Organizations, Debtor-Creditor, etc. (in collaboration with leading practitioners).
On Trying to Teach Judgment, 12 LEGAL EDUC. REV. 19 (2001).
Ethics: Beyond the Rules, 67 FORDHAM L. REV. 697 et seq. (1998) law-social science study of determinants of conduct of large law firm litigators (with collaborators).
Work/Life Decisions in Law Practice, in INTEGRATING WORK AND LIFE: THE WHARTON RESOURCE GUIDE, Friedman, DeGroot and Christensen, eds. (Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer) (1998)
Videotape: The Mediation Process: A Construction Case Study - (mediation skills teaching materials set in a commercial dispute, with teachers manual) (published by American Arbitration Association, 1990).
Videotape: Who's In Charge? The Lawyer as Counselor: Process and Ethical Dimensions - (videotaped teaching materials on the client counseling process in litigation) (published by University of Pennsylvania Center on Professionalism).
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