Meredith Geller
Clinical Professor of Law
Director of the Writing Lab
Phone
(312) 503-0490
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Assistant
Shona Bonds
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-4852
Assistant Email
shona-bonds@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Professor Meredith Geller is the Director of the Writing Lab and Clinical Professor of Law. Prior to coming to Northwestern, Professor Geller served as the Director of the Legal Writing Program and the Coordinator of the Academic Success Program at Northern Illinois University College of Law. She has extensive experience teaching both first year and upper-level writing courses, including creating and teaching an upper-level course focusing on writing in a civil law practice setting, and has also taught Health Law for many years. She has written and presented on a variety of legal writing and academic success topics, including expanding student writing skills beyond the first year, student and professor wellness, and increasing status for legal writing professionals. Professor Geller is currently co-authoring a book for Carolina Academic Press with Professor Lisa Mazzie titled Writing for Law Practice: What They Didn’t Teach You First Year.
Areas of Expertise
- Health Care Law
- Legal Research and Writing
Selected Publications
- Writing For Law Practice: What They Didn’t Teach You First Year (forthcoming 2025) (with Lisa Mazzie).
- The Art of Cutting Yourself Some Slack: Reinventing Yourself as an Online Teacher, in Law Teaching Strategies for a New Era: Beyond the Physical Classroom, edited by Tessa L. Dysart & Tracey L. M. Norton (2021).
- Burnout Doesn't Frighten Me, 25 Legal Writing Journal 131 (2021).
- Voting Like a Duck: Reflecting on a Year of Legal Writing Voting Rights, 24 Legal Writing Journal 55 (2020).
- Help Me, Help You: What You Should Know Before You Ask for Help, Learning Curve 32 (Winter/Spring 2019).
Education
- J.D., Boston College
- Certificate in Health Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- B.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Prior Appointments
- Director of the Legal Writing Program, 2014-2023, Northern Illinois University College of Law
- Legal Writing Instructor/Academic Support Program Coordinator, 2003-2014, Northern Illinois University College of Law
- Associate Attorney, 2000-2003, Hinshaw & Culbertson