Rachel Alexander
- Professor Rachel K. Alexander directs the school's fundamental legal skills program and teaches Legal Writing, Appellate Advocacy, and South Dakota Practice. Professor Alexander graduated from Creighton University School of Law, magna cum laude, and later began working at Creighton as a legal writing instructor.
- In addition to teaching legal writing, she practiced labor and employment law in Omaha, Nebraska. Professor Alexander's legal practice involved pursing and defending labor and employment matters in venues across the country, including appearances before state and federal courts and administrative agencies in over 25 states.
- To date, Professor Alexander's scholarship has reflected her practice in employment litigation, including the forthcoming publication of Federal Tails and State Puppy Dogs: Preempting Parallel State Wage Claims to Preserve the Integrity of Federal Group Wage Actions by the American University Law Review. This spring she published Taking the Detour Around Defending Protected Activity: How Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White Unnecessarily Complicates Litigation of Retaliation Claims, 22 REV. LITIG. 33 (2008), at the University of Texas. She has also published numerous pieces on employment issues with the Nebraska Lawyer and human resource groups including the Society for Human Resource Management and the Council for Education in Management. Professor Alexander is expanding her writing to issues pertinent to legal writing and research.
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