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William
George Ross
Cumberland School of Law
Professor of Law, Samford University
Birmingham, Alabama 35229
phone: 205.726.2413
fax: 205.726.4060
email:
wgross@samford.edu
Education
College: Stanford, A.B., 1976
Major - History
Honors - Phi Beta Kappa (elected during junior year); senior honors in
history
Activities - The Stanford Daily: associate editor, senior year;
opinions page editor, two years; chief editorial writer, one year;
weekly columnist, two years; reporter, three years
Graduate: Harvard Law School, J.D., 1979
Activities - The Harvard Journal on Legislation, research editor,
1978-79; staff member, 1976-78; Harvard Law Record (school
newspaper), senior editor, 1977-79
Employment
Current - professor, Cumberland
School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama (courses:
constitutional law; constitutional history; professional responsibility;
civil procedure; equity); member of faculty since 1988; tenured since
1993
Summer 2002 - visiting professor, Florida State College of Law,
Tallahassee, Florida
2001-02 – visiting professor, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame,
Indiana
1986-88 - attorney at Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, New York City
(went to firm with five colleagues from Rogers Hoge & Hills)
1981-86 - attorney at Rogers Hoge & Hills, New York City
1979-81 - attorney at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York City
Summer 1978 - law clerk at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York
Summer 1977 - law clerk, Consumer Fraud Division of the Arizona
Attorney General's Office, Phoenix
Summer 1975, Spring and Summer 1976 - reporter, news and
features, The Arizona Republic, Phoenix (wrote 70 by-lined articles)
Summer 1974 - intern for John J. Rhodes, the Minority Leader of
the U.S. House of Representatives, Washington
Areas of Legal Practice Experience
General commercial litigation,
trademark, copyright, unfair competition, securities, antitrust,
personal injury defense.
Part-Time Teaching Experience
Member of the Faculty, New School for
Social Research, 1985-1988 (taught course on U.S. constitutional history
during six semesters)
Publications & Presentations
Expert Witness & Consulting
Expert witness in various cases involving
billing ethics, civil procedure, and judicial ethics.
Consultant on various legal issues,
including civil procedure, billing ethics, and judicial ethics.
Professional Memberships
American Law Institute (elected December
1999); American Bar Association; American Society for Legal History
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