Leigh Coogan is an adjunct Professor for Legal Analysis and Writing. From 2017 until 2020, she taught legal writing as a Visiting Professor at Pitt Law. While teaching at Pitt Law, Professor Coogan organized a conference for legal writing professors from across the globe. Additionally, Professor Coogan and her colleague Ann Sinsheimer received a Personalized Education Grant from the University of Pittsburgh to evaluate law students’ mindsets and implement interventions to enhance their growth mindsets.
Prior to teaching at Pitt Law, Professor Coogan was an associate at K&L Gates, LLP. As an associate, she worked on a variety of matters in the areas of health care, construction, and white-collar criminal defense law. Her work included researching complex legal issues, negotiating with the federal government over discovery requests, and drafting various complaints and motions in both state and federal court.
Professor Coogan currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania as the Schools and Scholarships Chair. She is also the outgoing president of the Shadyside Presbyterian Church Nursery School Board of Trustees
Presentation and Publications
● Co-recipient, “Persistence, Performance, and Law School: Implementing Interventions to Encourage Growth Mindset, Maximize Education and Ensure Practice Ready Professionals,” Personalized Education Grant Program (2019-2020).
● Presenter, “Cultivating Resilience in Students to Become Practice Ready Professionals,” Poster Session at the University of Pittsburgh Assessment and Teaching Conference (January 26, 2018).
● Co-presenter, “Cultivating Resilience through Legal Research,” Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop (December 1, 2017). Co-presenter, “Nonconsensual Pornography,” Continuing Legal Education Presentation to the Pittsburgh Paralegal Association (Feb. 17, 2016).
● No Contracts, No Problem: HICPA Does Not Prevent Contractors from Recovery Under a Quantum Meruit Theory (with Jackie S. Celender), K&L GATES Construction Blog (Mar. 23, 2015).
● Supreme Court of Ohio Rejects Local Governments’ Attempts to Regulate Oil and Gas Activities (with Craig P. Wilson, Nicholas Ranjan, and Bryan D. Rohm), K&L Gates INSIGHT (Feb. 20, 2015).
● Healthy PA: Pennsylvania’s Attempt to Reform Medicaid Contravenes the Goals of the ACA’s Medicaid Expansion, JURIST - Dateline (Apr. 18, 2014).
● A Few For-Profit Businesses’ Battle Over the Affordable Care Act’s Preventative Services Mandate, 32 J.L. & Com. 381 (Nov. 2014).
- JD, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- AB, Harvard College
