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Marjorie A. McDiarmid

Steptoe & Johnson Professor of Law and Technology West Virginia University College of Law Morgantown, WV

Marjorie McDiarmid received her J.D. with honors from Columbia University School of Law in 1970. She earned an LL.M. from Harvard in 1974. Before coming to teaching, she practiced law for 16 years, doing both civil and criminal work. In 1986, Professor McDiarmid joined the West Virginia University College of Law faculty, where she directed the Clinical Law Program and now teaches evidence, advanced evidence, and trial practice. In addition to her CALI lessons, her areas of publication include technology, teaching methodology, family law, decision theory, and criminal procedure.

CALI Lessons

This table shows Lessons and podcasts by this author. It includes Lesson title, CALI Topics for the Lesson, the date the Lesson was published on the CALI website, the date the Lesson was last updated, and run/usage totals for the past 30 and 120 days.

Note: usage information for podcasts is not available here and is marked as N/A.

Lesson Title	CALI Topic(s)	Published in	Latest update	Runs Past 30 Days	Runs Past 120 Days
Drafting with 'And' and 'Or'	1L - First Year Lesson Topics Contracts Legal Research Legal Writing Entertainment Law	1997	March 28, 2023	63	196