Liz Ryan Cole

Teaching at VLS:

• Professor at Vermont Law School since 1984.
• Director of the Semester in Practice/Environmental Semester in Washington since 1984; a full time external clinic.

Leadership and Service:

• First President, Clinical Legal Education Association, 1992–93.
• Member, Clinical Section, Association of American Law Schools since 1988; Member, executive committee, 1987–91, and Chair, committee on externships, 1988–89.
• Member, Board of Trustees, Vermont Legal Aid, 1984–94.
• Member, continuing legal education committee, Vermont Bar Association, 1984–87, 1991.
• Member, Sterry Waterman Inn of Court, 1994–present.

Other:

• Led a VLS trip to Havana, Cuba, under a license from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, 2001.
• Speaks Spanish: taught in Colombia in the 1960s and worked with Spanish-speaking clients in California, 1973–77, and staff of the Legal Services programs in Puerto Rico, 1980–83.
• As director, established VLS' Semester in Practice program, 1984.
• As director, established full-time Office of Career Services at VLS, 1984.
• As designer and leader, offers two-day workshops on improving supervision skills in practice of law for judges, lawyers, and law professors, since 1984.
• Regional Training Coordinator, Legal Services Corporation, New York City, 1980–83.
• Training Coordinator, Legal Services Training and Advocacy Project, New Haven, CT, 1978–80.
• Partner in Katz, Cole and Beam, San Jose, CA, 1975–76.
• Legal Services of Santa Clara County, CA, staff attorney, 1974–75 and 1977.