Laura M. S. Berend
Professor of Law
Professor Berend was a staff and supervising attorney with Defenders Inc., a private, nonprofit firm providing indigent criminal defense services, and was in private practice in San Diego before joining the clinical faculty in 1983. She teaches in the areas of criminal trial practice, evidence advocacy and ethics. She is a past president of the board of directors of the Defenders Organization of San Diego, a president of the San Diego Psych-Law Society, past president of the Criminal Defense Lawyers Club and a former board member of the San Diego Criminal Defense Bar Association. Among her publications are "Proposition 115 Preliminary Hearings: Sacrificing Reliability on the Altar of Expediency," Pacific Law Journal; "Criminal Practice In Action," (with Professor Montoya) National Institute for Trial Advocacy; and " Less Reliable Preliminary Hearings and Plea Bargains in Criminal Cases in California: Discovery Before and After Proposition," American University Law Review. The third edition of her evidence advocacy problems and teaching notes is published in the Teacher's Manual for Evidence: Teaching Materials for an Age of Science and Statutes (Lexis Law Publishing).
