EXPERIENCE

Of Counsel, Bennett & Associates, Wayne, PA 12/2009 - present
Boutique matrimonial practice specializing in collaborative divorce, mediation, and complex family matters.

Founder - Bookspan Family Law - Conshohocken, PA 6/2009 - present
Solo practice emphasizing holistic approach to divorce, custody and support.

Founder and Owner, RYAH Yoga and Health, Conshohocken, PA 6/2006 to present
Designed, built, and grew holistic health center from a start-up to award winning, premier destination in Philadelphia area. Increased revenues 100% -- 1^st and 2^nd quarters 2009 over 2008.

2010 winner Best of the Western Suburbs- Best Yoga
2009 winner Best of the Main Line - Best Yoga Studio
2008 winner Best of Philly - Best Alternative to Modern Medicine.

Professor of Law, Widener University School of Law 1996 -2006
Wilmington, Delaware

Founder and Director, Juvenile Advocacy Clinic 1999 - 2003
Associate Professor 1988 - 1996
Assistant Professor, 1985 - 1988
Taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Juvenile Rights, Juvenile Advocacy Clinic, Sentencing, Gender and the Law, Int'l Women's and Children's Human Rights; Assisted with Criminal Defense Clinic
Director, Widener Geneva Summer Law Institute 1999
Professor, Widener Geneva Summer Law Institute 1995

Supervising Attorney, Juvenile Justice Clinic,
Georgetown University Law Center 1984-1985
Taught substantive classes, supervised and managed all aspects of student cases.

EDUCATION

M.L.A. - E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow, Georgetown University Law Center,
Graduate fellowship awarded only to 4 students annually. Training in law and trial advocacy, while maintaining an active caseload of 60 cases, representing indigent defendants in local and federal court. Taught classes in criminal procedure and trial skills, and supervised third year clinic students in court.
J.D. - Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
A.B. - Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York

PUBLICATIONS

Ban Life Without Parole For Juvenile Offenders The Pennsylvania Lawyer, March, 2011

Too Young to Die? A Look at Evolving Standards of Decency and the U.S. Juvenile Death Penalty Delaware Lawyer, 2004

On Mirrors and Gavels: A Chronicle of the Use of Menopause as a Legal Defense Against Women, with Maxine Kline (deceased) 32 Ind. L. Rev. 1267, (1999)

In the U.S. Supreme Court: Can States Require Drug Tests for Office Seekers, West Legal News (1997)

A Delicate Imbalance: Family and Work, 5 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 37 (1995)

From A Tender Years Presumption to a Primary Parent Presumption: Has Anything Really Changed, Should It? 8 B.Y.U. J. Pub. L. 75 (1993)

Reworking the Warrant Requirement: Resuscitating the Fourth Amendment, 44 Vand. L. Rev. 473 (1991)

Jar Wars: Employee Drug Testing, The Constitution and the American Drug Problem, 26 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 359 (1988). (Excerpted in Current Contents, Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Behind Open Doors: Constitutional Implications of Government Employee Drug Testing, 11 Nova 307, Winter 1987 (Testing for Drug Use in the American Workplace: A Symposium)

Hold Firms Liable for Health Costs, OpEd. Philadelphia Daily News, March 16, 1993

Ernie and Big Bird: Lovable But Sexist, OpEd. Philadelphia Inquirer with Diane Heiman, April 4, 1992. Reprinted in over 40 papers nationally

Employee Drug Tests: Risky Business, 10 Delaware Business Review, March 1988

Do Judges Make the Law: 4 Del. State Bar Journal, December 1987

A Balanced Privacy, 40 Delaware Lawyer 41, Fall 1987

Editor and Project Director, THE PUBLIC INTEREST CAREERS BOOK, 1983

CHILDREN IN THE COURTS, Butterworth Legal Publication, 1982
Researched and edited Prosecuting a Termination of Parental Rights Case, FOSTER

PRESENTATIONS

Estate Planning and Divorce, Doris Jonas Freed Inn Of Court, King of Prussia, PA
January 2011

Cocktail Party Chatter - Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) Philadelphia, PA
December, 2010

Presenter, Too Young to Die? A Look at Evolving Standards of Decency and the U. S.
Juvenile Death Penalty 17^th International Conference of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, The Hague, Netherlands, August 2003,

Speaker, Menopause As A Legal Defense Against Women, Delaware Valley
Law Professors, February 5, 2000 at Temple University. School of Law

Presenter, Eastern Sociology Society Conference, Committee on the Status of Women, March 5, 1999 Boston, Massachusetts

Speaker, ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), May 20, 1998 at Delaware State College, Dover, Delaware,
Topic: Conference on the Education of Homeless Children,

Coordinator/Presenter, Legal Issues in Pediatric/Physician Relationship - Joint Conference, American Association of Pediatrics and the Health Law Institute, Widener University School of Law, April 4, 1997

Moderator, Domestic Violence Seminar, Widener University School of Law,
April 1, 1997

Presenter, Family and Work: A Delicate Imbalance, Temple University School of Law, February 1996

Speaker, Domestic Violence, Jewish Federation of Delaware County, Coatesville, May, 1995

Speaker, Domestic Violence, Jewish Federation of Delaware County, Wallingford, January, 1995

Presenter and Conference Coordinator, SALT (Society of American Law Teachers), September 23-24, 1994, at University of Minnesota.

Presenter, Narratives and Justice, Delaware Valley Law Women, April, 1994

Presenter and Small Group Leader, SALT (Society of American Law Teachers)
Teaching Conference, October 28-10, 1993, at Santa Clara University School of Law.
Topic: Rape and Murder and Integrating Gender and Sexual Orientation into Criminal Law Teaching Materials

Presenter, Delaware Valley Law Women, November, 1993
Topic: Discussion on integrating different materials into basic courses to increase sensitivity and expand perception on race, gender and sexual orientation. Teaching materials on Rape Trauma Syndrome

Presenter, North America Family Law Conference of the International Society on Family Laws, June 9-12, 1993, at Jackson Lake, Wyoming.
Topic: Child Custody Decision Making: From a Tender Years Presumption to a Primary Parent Presumption. Has Anything Really Changed...Should It?

Presenter and Small Group Leader, SALT (Society of American Law Teachers) Teaching Conference, May 21-23, 1993, at New York University.
Topic: Rape and Murder and Integrating Gender and Sexual Orientation into Criminal Law Teaching Materials

Speaker, Domestic Violence and the Legal Defense of Battered Spouse Syndrome, Widener University School of Law, Women's Law Caucus, March 25, 1993

Keynote Speaker, Privacy and the Abortion Debate, January 27, 1992 - CLOSE UP AMERICA, Chichester High School, PA

Speaker and Moderator, ACLF The Impact of New Technologies on Civil Liberties; A Symposium, Widener University School of Law, May 1990

Luncheon Address, General Federation of Women's' Clubs, September 25, 1989 -- "21st Century Justice." (Other featured speakers at conference were the Presidents of American and Catholic Universities)

Speaker, Employee Drug Testing and Your Rights, CAPS Program, Widener University, October 1988

Debate, Employee Drug Testing, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Widener University, October, 1987

Panel Discussion, Employee Drug Testing, Delaware Youth Fair, May 1986, by invitation of Senator Roth.

SPECIALIZED TEACHING and TRAININGS

One week training on American criminal practice and procedure to Ecuadoran Jurists and Lawyers, American University, Quito, Equador summer 2002

Coordinator and instructor -- training for Delaware lawyers serving as Criminal Justice Act attorneys for indigent defendants in federal court. Intensive classes on criminal law, procedure, federal sentencing guidelines, evidence, trial practice, advocacy, etc.

Federal Defenders Association, Advanced Training Seminar, Washington, D.C., April 1990. (By special invitation Administrative Office of U.S. Courts).

U.S. Sentencing Commission, "Train the Trainer" Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, 1989. (By special invitation as local coordinator for defense bar of the District of Delaware).

Selected RADIO and TV Commentary

Guest Commentator:

Delaware Tonight WHYY TV - numerous legal topics
It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle" CN 8 TV comments on current legal cases
Radio Times with Martie Moss Kohane WHYY, "Workplace Sexual Harrassment;" Victim's Rights"
AM Philadelphia WCAU-TV , "Jury Selection"
News Sunday WGHT, New Jersey, Grossberg/Peterson Case
WILM Grossberg/Peterson Case
Newsmakers WILM, "Getting Tough on Juvenile Crime"
WHYY-TV, O.J. Simpson Trial and Verdict.
Channel 17, Inquirer News Tonight, "Insights into the O.J. Simpson Trial."
Channel 17, Inquirer News Tonight, "Gender Equality in Law School."
Guest Commentator,
WILM, "Reginald Denny Verdict and Jury Decision-making."
WHYY-TV, Evening News, "Reginald Denny Verdict."
The Bill Grant Show, WDEL, "Drug Testing in the Public Schools."
The Barry Young Show, KFYI, Phoenix, Arizona, "Sexism on Sesame Street."
WILM, "Anti-Flag Burning Amendment."
Newsmakers, WDEL, "DNA Fingerprinting."
Guest Commentator, WILM, "Oliver North Verdict."

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS/COMMUNITY SERVICE

Board of Directors, Delaware Valley Friends School, Paoli, PA
Board of Advisors, Jewish Family and Children's Services of Philadelphia
Board of Directors, Family Support Line, Delaware County, PA
Board of Directors ACLU Delaware
Steering Committee Member Common Cause Delaware
Chair, Adoption Task Force, Jewish Family & Children's Service of Philadelphia,
National Association of Professional Women
Volunteer Mediator - Center for Resolutions
PA Bar Association - Women in the Profession Committee

LAW SCHOOL SERVICE

Committees

Clinics, Chair
Curriculum, Chair
Promotion to Associate Professor, Chair,
Second Law Review, Chair
Technology, Chair
Curriculum
Dean Search
Faculty Appointments
Faculty Development
Health Law Institute
Placement
Tenure Promotion and Policies
Tenure Reporting
Tenure Rules
University Faculty Affairs
Advisor to Moot Court Honor Society
Coach, National Moot Court Competition
Coach, Polsky Interscholastic Moot Court Competition,
Coach, Prince Evidence Competition,

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

District of Columbia, 1983 Pennsylvania, 1985