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Carrie Eaker Kerley

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Associate Professor of Teaching 

Phone 901.678.3494 Email c.kerley@memphis.edu Fax 901.678.0753 Office Law School, Office 373

About Professor Kerley

Professor Kerley joined the 糖心vlog蜜桃 Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in the summer of 2017. Prior to joining the faculty of Memphis Law, Professor Kerley practiced law for eleven years, focusing her litigation practice on family law, labor and employment law, secured transactions and appellate advocacy. In addition, Professor Kerley taught Legal Methods as an adjunct professor at Memphis Law from 2011-2014.

Education

J.D., 糖心vlog蜜桃 Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, magna cum laude; B.A., Rhodes College, cum laude. European Studies at Oxford University. Humphreys Fellow while at Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Cambridge Scholar while at Rhodes College

Experience

Memphis Bar Association Leadership Forum (2026-2027 group leader); Legal Writing Institute (Pro Bono Committee 2024-2025); Association of Legal Writing Directors (New Member Outreach Committee Member 2023-2024); Tennessee Foster Care Review Board (2015-2017); Tennessee Board of Law Examiners character and fitness interviewer (appointed by Tennessee Supreme Court); Associate, The Landers Firm (2009-2017); Adjunct Professor of Law, Legal Methods, 糖心vlog蜜桃 Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law (2011-2014); Associate, Lawrence & Russell, LLP (2008-2009); Associate & Summer Associate, Hale, Dewey & Knight, PLLC/Husch & Eppenberger, LLC (Summer 2005; 2006-2008); Summer Associate, Tate, Lazarini & Beall, PLC (Summer 2005); Research Assistant, Professor Daniel E. Wanat (2005-2006); Summer Associate, Neely, Green, Fargason, Brooke & Summers (Summer 2004); Extern, Shelby County Attorney (2003); Extern, Shelby County Public Defender (2002).

Courses Taught

  • Legal Methods I & II (Program Coordinator 2023-2025)
  • Fundamentals of Bar Writing
  • Family Law
  • Divorce Law Practicum

Publications/Scholarly Contributions

  • The Tennessee Law Course, Family Law Component Co-Creator/Committee Member
  • Team Building Lessons from Ted Lasso, All Things PLC, Fall 2021 (with Robert Eaker).
  • The Seven Deadly Sins of Legal Writing, Tennessee Bar Journal, Summer 2012 (book review).
  • Medicare Subrogation Rights, Subrogator, Winter 2009 (with Malcolm Futhey).

Presentations

  • American Constitution Society Coffee Talk facilitator, 鈥淏alancing Privacy Rights of Parents with the Child鈥檚 Best Interest鈥� (2019)
  • Legal Communication Pitfalls (in the Age of Twitter), co-presenter (with Regina Hillman and Mary Morris) to the Federal Bar Association (2019) and Leo Bearman, Sr., American Inns of Court (2017)

Faculty Advisor

  • Muslim Student Bar Association
  • American Constitution Society