Center Administrators

Kamela Bridges directs the David J. Beck Center for Legal Research, Writing, and Appellate Advocacy.  She teaches legal writing, appellate advocacy, and litigation writing.  Before joining the faculty in 2000, Ms. Bridges was a partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP (now known as Locke Lord).  Her practice focused on civil litigation and appellate law.  Ms. Bridges co-authored Writing for Litigation, a text designed to help students and new lawyers learn to write documents typically used in civil litigation.