Marni B. Lennon
Lecturer in Law
Assistant Dean, Public Interest & Pro Bono; Director, HOPE Public Interest Resource Center; Social Justice/Public Interest Concentration Affiliated Faculty
Marni Lennon is the Assistant Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono and a Lecturer of Law. She is the founder and director of the HOPE Public Interest Resource Center, has worked and taught at the University of Miami School of Law for 26 years, serving for the last thirteen years as the Assistant Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono.
Dean Lennon teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution, ADR Design Systems, Mediation and Social Justice Lawyering, and is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator. She has served in numerous leadership roles for the Student Services Section and the Pro Bono Section of the AALS. She is also the author, with Melvin Rubin, of Mediation, in 3 Florida Family Law 55-1 (Brenda M. Abrams ed. 2012) and The Vulnerable Client: Standing at the Crossroad of Compassion and Competence, with Jan Jacobowitz (MIE Legal Aid Journal, Summer 2018).
Dean Lennon currently serves on the Board of Southern Legal Counsel and the Board of CETLAW. She is also proud to serve on the Dean’s Circle for the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation.
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Education
| J.D. , University of Miami School of Law | |
| M.S.Ed , University of Miami | |
| B.A. , University of Southern California |
