BIO

Carolyn Broering-Jacobs is a Clinical Professor and the former Director of Legal Writing at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. In additional to teaching in the Civil Litigation Clinic, other courses taught include legal writing and litigation, first-year legal writing, appellate advocacy, transactional drafting, and torts. She also is the faculty advisor to the Cleveland-Marshall Moot Court Program. 

Professor Broering-Jacobs began her legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Sam H. Bell of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in Akron, Ohio, and she was a litigation associate in the Cleveland office of Baker & Hostetler. Professor Broering-Jacobs began teaching in 2000, and she frequently presents to attorneys and other writers on writing, advocacy, and pedagogy. Professor Broering-Jacobs also researches and presents on fostering grit in the law student and legal professional. 

Professor Broering-Jacobs is admitted to practice in the State of Ohio, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.