Trial Advocacy

Richard Barrett            Prof. Barrett is a Supervisory Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia, where he is the Chief of Corruption, Civil Rights, Tax and Labor Section. Prior to joining the U.S Attorney's he served as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia.  Prof. Barrett teaches both international criminal law and trial advocacy. He is the co-author of Lessons of Yugoslavia Rape Trials: A Role for Conspiracy Law in International Tribunals, 88 Minnesota Law Review 30 (2003).

Marissa Bluestine          Prof. Bluestine is the Legal Director of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, which is housed at Temple University.  She is a former national quarter-finalist and coach for the Temple Trial Teams and a former Assistant Public Defender in Philadelphia.

Jennifer Bretschneider   Prof. Bretschneider is an Assistant District Attorney in the Philadelphia.  Prof. Bretschneider currently works in the Homicide Unit and coaches Temple's Trial Teams. 

Carrie Cinquanto          Prof. Cinquanto is a former Assistant Federal Defender in Texas and NAVY Jag Officer and who is now the managing member of Cornerstone Legal Consultants.  She is the former director of Temple's LLM in Trial Advocacy program as well as a former Trial Team coach.

Mary DeFusco             Prof DeFusco serves as the Director of Training and Recruitment for the Defender Association of Philadelphia.  She is also the Defender Association's representative on the Oversight Committee of the Philadelphia Treatment Court and is also a founding board member of Dawn's Place, a program that serves the needs of trafficked and prostituted women.  She teaches nationally and locally for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.  Prof. DeFusco also teaches Introduction to Trial Advocacy (ITA) and teaches Trial Advocacy to LLM students from China in the summer program. 

Patrick Egan                 Prof. Egan is a partner at Fox Rothschild where he chairs the White Collar Crime section.  He is also a faculty member for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.  He is Chair of the Criminal Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers where he serves on the advisory board for The Champion Magazine.

Bruce Franzel               Prof. Franzel, a former Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia, is a partner at Oxenburg & Franzel.  He has presented on criminal defense issues at numerous CLEs and is on the executive board of the Philadelphia Bar Association Criminal Justice Section as well as the executive board of the Criminal Law Committee of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.  Prof. Franzel also teaches Introduction to Trial Advocacy (ITA). 

Henry Hockeimer, Jr.           Prof. Hockeimer, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia, is a partner at Ballard Spahr in the Litigation Department and a member of Ballard's Consumer Financial Services Group and Corporate and Government Investigations and White Collar Defense Group. He focuses his practice on white collar criminal defense, securities fraud, and complex civil litigation.

Hayes Hunt                  Prof. Hunt, former Assistant Public Defender in Philadelphia, is a member of Cozen O'Connor's White Collar and Complex Criminal Defense Group and concentrates his practice in the representation of individuals, corporations and executives in a wide variety federal and state criminal law and regulatory enforcement matters as well as civil litigation.  He was the program director for the 2007 and 2009 Cozen O'Connor Trial Academy and was also the program director for the 2008 and 2010 Cozen O'Connor Deposition Program.  He teaches for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and the District of Columbia Bar Association.

Richard Kolb                Prof. Kolb is a partner at White and Williams in the Litigation Department and a senior member of the Healthcare Law Group.  He has been an active trial lawyer for over thirty years, primarily defending physicians and healthcare institutions in medical malpractice litigation.  He has been an instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and has participated as a faculty member in numerous CLE programs teaching trial advocacy skills.

Beth McHugh               Prof McHugh is an Assistant Public Defender in Philadelphia.  She is currently assigned to the appeals unit.  Prof. McHugh also teaches Criminal Law at Temple in the summer session for foreign LLM students.

Timothy J. McNamara       Prof. McNamara is a shareholder at Stark & Stark as a member of their Personal Injury Group.  Prior to joining Stark & Stark, Prof. McNamara was a senior staff member of the Mercer County (NJ) Prosecutor's office where he served as Chief of the Special Investigations Unit, Chief of the Grand Jury Unit, Chief of the Forfeiture Unit, Trial Team Leader, and Chief of the Drug Court.

Michael McTaggart            Prof. McTaggart is a Deputy Attorney General in the Delaware Department of Justice.  He is currently assigned to the Civil Division of the Major Litigation Section.  He is an honors graduate of Temple's LLM in Trial Advocacy, winning both the Faculty and the Trial Technology award.

Paul Messing                Paul Messing, a former Assistant Public Defender in Philadelphia, is a partner at Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg, where he specializes in civil rights litigation and criminal defense.   Professor Messing also teaches Introduction to Trial Advocacy and teaches Trial Advocacy to LLM Students from China in the summer.   

Dan Miller                Daniel R. Miller, of Berger & Montague, P.C., concentrates his practice on complex civil litigation, representing whistleblowers in state and federal False Claim Act cases against companies or contractors who have committed fraud, and representing individual and class plaintiffs in consumer protection actions. He is a former Deputy Attorney General for the State of Delaware.

John M. Myers          Prof. Myers, a former Assistant Public Defender in Philadelphia, serves as of counsel to Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP and is a member of the firm's Commercial Litigation practice and matters group.  His experience includes partnership and closely held business claims and disputes, and claims involving employment, real estate, lender liability, joint venture issues, securities industry disputes, contract negotiation, and general business counsel including contractual and employment matters.

The Honorable Phil Restrepo          Prof. Restrepo, a former Assistant Federal Public Defender in Philadelphia, is a Federal Magistrate-Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Judge Restrepo is a past President of the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania and has served on numerous boards including the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar. He has taught programs for Judges and Prosecutors in China for Temple, and has trained Assistant US Attorneys at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina.

Mariana Rossman         Prof. Rossman, a former Assistant Public Defender in Philadelphia, is a partner at Jalon Rossman, where her work focuses primarily on criminal defense.  As a student at Temple, Prof. Rossman was a national semi-finalist on the Trial Team.  She is a former associate at Dilworth Paxton, where she practiced primarily white collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation

Natasha Taylor-Smith               Prof. Taylor-Smith, a former Assistant Public Defender in Philadelphia, is a sole practitioner who primarily practices criminal defense. 

Karl Schwartz              Prof. Schwartz recently joined the Capitol Habeas Unit of the Federal Public Defender's Office of Delaware after many years of practice as an assistant Public Defender in Philadelphia where he was assigned to the homicide division.  Prof. Scwhartz also teaches Introduction to Trial Advocacy.

 Advanced Trial Advocacy (ATA) Faculty

Daniel Alva          Prof. Alva is a partner at Alva & Associates, which handles all areas of trial work, concentrating in state, federal, local and national criminal trials.  Prof. Alva belongs to the National and Pennsylvania Associations of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is Co-Chair of the Municipal Court Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

Judge Juan Sanchez               Prof. Sanchez received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he received the Benjamin R. Jones Award for his commitment to humanity and the law. After a career with Legal Aid and the Public Defender's Office of Chester County, Judge Sanchez was elected to the Chester County Court of Common Pleas in 1997, where he served until 2004 when inducted to a seat on the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania.   Prof. Sanchez also teaches in the Integrated Trail Advocacy Program.

Judge Timothy Rice                  Prof. Rice is a United States Magistrate-Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  He graduated magna cum laude from the Temple University School of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Temple Law Review.  Prof. Rice was as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, serving as Chief of the Criminal Division and supervising the Financial Institution Fraud Section and the Public Corruption Section. At Temple he teaches Evidence as well as Advanced Criminal Trial Advocacy.

Bernie Siegel                  Prof. Siegel is a sole practitioner in Philadelphia whose work focuses on criminal defense.  A former Deputy Distritct Attorney and Deputy Attorney General, Prof. Siegel has served as faculty for the LaSalle University School of Business and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.  He frequently teaches seminars and CLEs for the National College of District Attorneys, the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association and the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL).

Marc Robert Steinberg      Prof. Steinberg has been the Managing Partner of Rubin, Glickman, Steinberg and Gifford since 1980, and has been a member of the firm since 1976. He is a frequent lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the Montgomery Bar Association in criminal and civil areas. In 2005, he was named the Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Montgomery Trial Lawyers Association.

 Introduction to Trial Advocacy (ITA) Faculty

Dina Chavar                 Prof. Chavar is an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Philadelphia.  In addition to carrying an active caseload, she staffs Judge Felipe L. Restrepo's Re-entry Court program.  She has been a clinical instructor at Temple Law School since 2006.

Fred Goodman         Prof. Goodman is an Assistant Public Defender in Philadelphia where he is assigned to the homicide unit.  He serves as faculty for the annual statewide defender training run by the Defender Association of Pennsylvania. 

Tariq El-Shabazz          Prof. El-Shabazz is the managing and founding partner at El-Shabazz  and Harris.  He has practiced complex civil and criminal litigation in both Federal and State Court for more than 18 years.  Mr. El-Shabazz serves as a legal analyst to a variety of TV newscasts.  As well as teaching ITA, Prof. El-Shabazz also lectures for Temple's LLM in Trial Advocacy Program.

Roger Schrading           Prof. Roger Schrading is an Assistant Public Defender in Philadelphia where he is currently assigned to the homicide unit.

Jeffery W. Whitt           Prof. Whitt has been an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 1979.  He has served as a Senior Litigation Counsel and a Deputy Section Chief for the President's Drug Task Force and Narcotics Section.   Formerly, he worked as a staff attorney for Community Legal Services, Inc. in Philadelphia.  He also teaches trial advocacy as a member of the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.