Susie Salmon is Director of Legal Writing and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. She also coaches the College of Law's ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition teams and supervises the writing-fellow program. Professor Salmon's scholarshiexplores how longstanding practices and values in legal education affect access to justice, bias in the profession, and the legal profession as a whole; her recent scholarshialso examines the role of rhetoric in the law-school curriculum and its potential impact on lawyer and law-student well-being. A nationally recognized expert on moot court, Professor Salmon co-authored the Legal Writing Institute’s Moot Court Advisors Handbook. She also has written a popular monthly column on legal writing—"The Legal Word"—in Arizona Attorney, the magazine of the State Bar of Arizona, and she frequently presents to local, national, and international audiences on issues related to legal writing and advocacy. Trained as a commercial litigator, with nine years of experience at large law firms in Los Angeles and Tucson, Professor Salmon remains active in the legal community, serving on the Steering Committee of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the Arizona Women Lawyers Association and on the organization's State Board. She remains an active member of the Arizona State Bar. Professor Salmon is also a leader in the national legal-writing community, having served on the Boards of Directors of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute.