Tracy L. Turner

Associate Dean Tracy Turner is passionate about good teaching. She has innovated her own teaching by using a flipped classroom methodology, employing a diverse set of formative assessments that reach a variety of different learning styles, and writing a textbook that teaches to today’s law students by using an accessible, step-by-step approach to legal writing pedagogy.

Dean Turner began her career in civil and appellate practice at the firms of Proskauer Rose and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison where she handled labor and employment law cases. There she gained extensive experience in state and federal court litigation, Equal Employment Opportunities Commission investigations, National Labor Relations Board and workers' compensation hearings, National Association of Securities Dealer's arbitrations, and private mediation. In 2001, she joined the firm of Horvitz & Levy as an appellate law associate handling cases in state and federal appellate courts involving medical malpractice, commercial disputes, consumer litigation, and employment policies and practices.

Dean Turner joined Southwestern’s full-time legal research and writing faculty in 2004 and was appointed as Director of the Legal Analysis, Writing, and Skills program in 2007. She was excited to move into teaching at Southwestern because as a practicing attorney, she appreciated the importance of quality writing and analysis to the proper functioning of the legal system.