Professor Drew began practicing law in 1980 in Massachusetts, where she represented victims of violence in the District, Family, and Appellate Courts of Massachusetts. For the 2001-2002 academic year, she was a teacher and supervising attorney with the Domestic Violence Clinic at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. From 2002-2005, she was an adjunct professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law while continuing her representation of domestic violence clients, primarily in the Appellate Courts.
Professor Drew came to UC College of Law in July 2005 as the first director of the newly organized Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic, which is housed at Legal Aid of Greater Cincinnati. Professor Drew trains attorneys, judges and advocates on effective representation of victims of domestic abuse. She also consults on domestic violence cases.
Professor Drew is past chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Domestic Violence and is special adviser to the commission. She is a member of the Hamilton County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council and the Fatality Review Team. In addition to having an interest in the financial aspects of abuse and the isolation of suburban victims, Professor Drew, a Reiki Master, has a particular interest in the spiritual healing of victims of violence.
Professor Drew is a former executive committee member of the National Association of Women Lawyers; previously, she served as the NAWL delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. Professor Drew is a member of the amicus committee for NAWL and chaired the committee from 1998-2005. She continues to co-chair the committee. She is a member of the NAWL Supreme Court Committee, which reviews the president's nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professor Drew has published several articles, including “Recognizing Financial Control as Abuse” (86 Women Law. J. 9 2000-2001) and Lawyer Malpractice: Are We Re-Victimizing Our Domestic Violence Clients? in the 2005 spring volume of The Family Law Quarterly. In the 2006 winter volume of the University of Cincinnati Law Review, Professor Drew and her co-author, Sarah Buel, published “Do Ask and Do Tell: Rethinking the Lawyer's Duty to Warn in Domestic Violence Cases.” The article was part of a symposium held on the 30th anniversary of the Tarasoff case. Her current projects include a domestic violence discovery handbook. Her 2008 essay on self-care can be found at http://www.abanet.org/domviol/enewsletter/vol9/expertDrew.html.
Professor Drew was an editor and contributing author of the ABA 2005 publication, The Impact of Domestic Violence on Your Legal Practice, 1st and 2d ed. In 2007, she served on a steering committee and edited the ABA's Standards of Practice for Lawyers Representing Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking in Civil Protection Order Cases. She also assisted the National Consumer Law Center in editing its publication: Massachusetts Guide On Consumer Credit for Victims of Domestic Violence.
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Margaret attended a two day conference, Introduction to Empirical Research for Clinicians and Public Interest Lawyers, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. She co-chaired a meeting of the Hamilton County Fatality Review Committee.
Margaret was appointed liaison to the ABA Civil Right to Counsel Working Group chaired by former ABA president Michael Greco. She attended a meeting of the Court Work Group of the Hamilton County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council.
Margaret was promoted to Professor of Clinical Law (with reappointment to a term of five years). Her article, Denying Choice of Forum: An Interference by the Massachusetts Trial Court with Domestic Violence Victims’ Rights and Safety (with Marilu Gresens ‘10), was accepted for publication in the Suffolk University Law Review.
Margaret trained Ohio and Kentucky sexual assault nurse examiners in the art of testifying as an expert witness; chaired a meeting of the Hamilton County Fatality Review Team; presented on domestic violence dynamics to the local chapter of collaborative Lawyers; conducted a peer advocate training on stalking for the UC Women’s Center; and participated in a national telephone training on the Hidden Healthcare Costs of Domestic Violence. The Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic's successfully appealed case of Hughes v. Gibbs was cited in Ohio Domestic Violence Law (2009-10).
Margaret presented The Role of Empathy and Courage in the Law School Clinic as part of the 13th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series. The directors of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges adopted her book, A Judicial Guide to Child Safety in Custody Cases (2008) (with Hon. Jerry J. Bowles, Hon. Kaye K. Christian & Katheryn L. Yetter).
Margaret’s article, Lawyer Malpractice and Domestic Violence: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, 39 Fam. L.Q. 7 (2005), was cited in Linda Elrod, Child Custody Practice & Procedure (Thomson/West, 2009). She attended a week-long technology institute sponsored by the university; a meeting of the Court Work Group of the Hamilton County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council; and the ABA’s annual meeting, including a meeting of the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence to which she was reappointed special advisor.
The Ohio Fourth Appellate District rendered a favorable decision in Sinclair v. Sinclair, inding that the end of divorce proceedings should not be a measure of the time during which a petitioner needs a protection order. Margaret authored the amicus brief that argued that completion of a divorce proceeding does not signal the end of violence in a relationship for purposes of limiting the term of a civil protection order. The amicus brief was filed on behalf of the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic and the Ohio Network against Domestic Violence.
Margaret attended the annual conference of the Clinical Legal Education Association and presented Teaching Courage in the Law School Clinic (with Jeffery Baker (Faulkner)).
Margaret was named chair of the Reading Subcommittee of the National Association of Women Lawyers Supreme Court Committee. The Committee reviews the nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court and this summer will review the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Margaret received the 2009 Goldman Award for Excellence in Law Teaching. She participated in a day-long meeting sponsored by the National Network to End Domestic Violence in New York City that brought together battered women and their advocates to discuss barriers to abused women obtaining custody of their children. Margaret also attended a meeting of the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence in Savannah, Georgia.
Margaret attended a reception at the United States Supreme Court hosted by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The Reception kicked off a three day Global Forum on Women and Justice sponsored by the Avon Foundation and the International Association of Women Judges. Margaret spent three days in Washington, D.C. conducting peer reviews of grant applications filed under the Violence Against Women Act. She also participated in a planning session for a conference on representing battered immigrant women sponsored by Legal Momentum. Margaret attended a meeting of the University’s Sexual Assault Response Team.
Margaret posted her article, Lawyer Malpractice and Domestic Violence: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, 39 Fam. L.Q. 7 (2005), on SSRN. She was quoted in Julia Alanen, When Human Rights Conflict: Mediating International Parental Kidnapping Disputes Involving the Domestic Violence Defense, 40 U. Miami Inter-Am. L. Rev. 49 (2008).
Margaret published A Judicial Guide to Child Safety in Custody Cases (National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 2008) (with Hon. Jerry J. Bowles, Hon. Kaye K. Chistian, & Katheryn L. Yetter).
Margaret moderated a panel at the Clinical Legal Education Association Mid-West Conference at Indiana on Helping Clients Heal Through Community Collaborations with Janet Moore (Director of the College's Indigent Defense Clinic) and Christina Misner (Oklahoma City).
Margaret presented Using Social Science in Developing Your Case as well as Sustaining the Practicing Lawyer at a daylong program on representing domestic violence clients sponsored by Indianapolis Continuing Legal Education. She submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic on a 4th District (Ohio)case challenging the terms of a civil protection order.
Margaret was quoted in Bureau: 32% College Students Victims of Abuse, The News Record, Nov. 26, 2008.
Margaret attended the annual Friends of Women's Studies reception hosted by Melody Sawyer Richardson. She was a guest speaker on Domestic Violence Dynamics at Roger Williams School of Law.
Margaret presented Domestic Violence and the Collaborative Process at the annual meeting of the International Association of Collaborative Professionals in New Orleans.
The Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic signed as amicus to a brief filed with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission supporting the petitioner in Jessica Gonzales v. United States. Margaret participated in a roundtable discussion held by Ms. Lenahan (formerly Gonzales) and her attorneys on next steps in addressing domestic violence as a human rights issue.
Margaret participated in a panel presentation to the Hamilton County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council on Firearms and Domestic Violence. Her article, Lawyer Malpractice and Domestic Violence: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, 39 Fam. L.Q. 7 (2005), was cited in Linda D. Elrod, Child Custody Practice & Procedure (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2008 Supp.).
Margaret participated as faculty at a two day National Civil Law Institute that addressed custody issues that arise in domestic violence cases. The institute, held in St. Louis, was co-sponsored by NITA and the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence.
Margaret and the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic were featured in the September edition of UC Magazine. Margaret acted as the discussant at a faculty workshop at the College by Leigh Goodmark (Baltimore), When Is a Battered Woman Not a Battered Woman? A Critique of the Legal System's Responses to Domestic Violence, as part of the College's Faculty Workshop Series.
Margaret participated in a meeting of the Court Workgroup, a subcommittee of the Hamilton County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. She chaired a meeting of the Hamilton County Fatality Review Team.
Margaret presented Stalking Basics at UC Women's Center to UC undergraduate volunteers who respond to campus sexual assault incidents in order to support victims.
As Interim Chair, Margaret presided over a meeting of the Hamilton County Fatality Review Team. She attended the General Assembly and Annual Luncheon of the National Association of Women Lawyers in New York City.
As co-chair of its amicus committee, Margaret organized an amicus brief filed on behalf of the National Association of Women Lawyers in the Supreme Court case of Fitzgerald v. Barnstable County. The brief, drafted primarily by Joanne Hodge (John Marshall School of Law), supports petitioner's position that a Title IX claim does not preclude the filing of a Section 1983 claim.
Margaret attended the ABA Annual Meeting in New York City. As special advisor to the ABA's Commission on Domestic Violence, she participated in the Commission's meeting as well as in a meeting of the Prevention Committee, which she co-chairs.
Margaret's article, Judicial Checklist, 39 Fam. L.Q. 1 (2005), was cited in Dana Harrington Conner, Do No Harm: An Analysis of the Legal and Social Consequences of Child Visitation Determinations for Incarcerated Perpetrators of Extreme Acts of Violence against Women, 17 Colum. J. Gender & L. 163 (2008).
Margaret attended the AALS Clinical Legal Education conference in Tucson, Arizona. She attended a meeting of the Hamilton County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, where she spoke about the work of the UC Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic.
Margaret won the Goldman Prize for Teaching Excellence. She made a presentation on the work of the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic to the Hamilton County Domestic Violence Coordinating Counsel. Margaret participated in a meeting of the Hamilton County Fatality Review Committee.
Margaret participated in a meeting of the University's Sexual Offense Response Team. She spoke on Domestic Violence Dynamics and Civil Protection Orders at a conference sponsored by the Regional Forensic Counsel and organized by Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners of University Hospital.
Margaret attended a meeting of the Hamilton County Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team and reviewed a chapter on Legal Remedies for a book to be published to assist medical personnel in working with survivors of domestic violence. Her article, Lawyer Malpractice and Domestic Violence: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, 39 Fam. L.Q. 7 (2005), was cited in Linda D. Elrod & James P. Buchele, Kansas Family Law (Thomson West, 4th ed., 2007 Supp.).
Margaret published Healing Ourselves, ABA Commission on Domestic Violence e-Newsletter (Winter 2008). The Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic, along with the Mental Health Association of Southwest Ohio, co-sponsored a program on Difficult Crossroads: Mental Illness and Domestic Violence.
Margaret moderated a panel on the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Massachusetts Abuse Prevention Act, sponsored by the Rosa Parks Committee of the Massachusetts Woman's Bar Association. Margaret was honored with a plaque for her “many years of standing up for justice and the rule of law.”
The ABA Commission on Domestic Violence distributed the Standards of Practice for Lawyers Representing Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking in Civil Protection Order Cases. Margaret was on the steering committee and acted as one of the drafters and editors.
Margaret presented Client Interviewing in Preparation for Trial as part of CLE webcast series for lawyers representing victims of violence sponsored by the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence.
Margaret attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City. She was quoted in More than One Family Grieving Loss, Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 13, 2008, at 13A.
Margaret gave the keynote address on Self-Care of Those Who Work with Victims of Domestic Violence at the annual meeting of the Rape Crisis and Abuse Center. She trained lawyers and staff at Legal Aid of Greater Cincinnati on the dynamics of domestic violence.
Margaret presented Advanced Issues in Property Division in Divorce and Negotiations in Domestic Violence Cases at conference on Working With Battered Immigrant Women sponsored by the National Network to End Domestic Violence, Legal Momentum, and the Department of Justice in Lexington, KY. She participated in a meeting of the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence and in joint meetings with the ABA and AMA on training for their members on legal- medical issues involving domestic violence.
Margaret presented The Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic to the faculty as part of the College's Faculty Development Series. She presented Recognizing Domestic Violence in Your Legal Practice to Law Women.
Margaret trained attorneys from Clermont and Brown County on the Dynamics of Domestic Violence in Family Law Cases. She attended the Mid-West Clinical Conference on Implementing the Carnegie Report Recommendations at Drake Law School in Des Moines.
Margaret was quoted in Ryan C. Hasanbasic, Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales: The Supreme Court Goes to Great Lengths to Ensure Police Discretion, But at What Cost? 36 Stetson L. Rev. 881 (2007).
Margaret attended the regional conference of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts in Columbus. She trained advocates for the UC Women's Center on the dynamics of stalking and related legal remedies.
Margaret attended a meeting of the Hamilton County Fatality Review (which reviews the circumstances of domestic violence homicides in order to determine areas where services to domestic violence victims might be improved.)
Margaret was appointed Associate Professor of Clinical Law.
Margaret trained sexual assault nurses in the dynamics of domestic violence and civil remedies. Along with clinic student Annal Vyas, Margaret participated in a mock trial demonstrating the use of a sexual assault nurse as witness. The training, which was held at University Hospital, was part of a regional training in Advanced Forensic Application in Caring for Survivors of Interpersonal Violence.
Margaret facilitated discussions at the Muskie Institute of Public Service Conference on Custody Evaluations in Domestic Violence Cases in Portland, Maine. She taught “Interviewing on Sexual Assault Issues in Domestic Violence Cases” at the National Child Custody Civil Law Institute held in San Francisco.
Margaret attended a meeting of the newly formed coalition organized to address issues of human trafficking in Greater Cincinnati. She participated in planning a conference on immigrant battered women sponsored by Legal Momentum's National Network to End Domestic Violence Against Immigrant Women. The Conference will be held in November.
Margaret attended meetings of the Youth At Risk Commission and the Commission on Domestic Violence at the ABA annual meeting held in San Francisco. She was reappointed as Special Advisor to the Commission on Domestic Violence. Her article, Lawyer Malpractice and Domestic Violence: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, 39 Fam. L.Q. 7 (2005), was cited in Linda D. Elrod & James P. Buchele, Kansas Family Law (Thomson-West, 2007 Supp.).
Margaret continued to meet with a subcommittee of the University Sexual Offense Response Team on defining the work of the Team. She participated in a planning group for a fall conference on Humanizing Law School Education to be held at Washburn University. Margaret attended a three-day conference in London, Ontario on Children's Issues in Domestic Violence Cases.
Margaret's article, Lawyer Malpractice and Domestic Violence: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, 39 Fam. L.Q. 7 (2005) was cited in Dana Harrington Conner, To Protect or to Serve: Confidentiality, Client Protection, and Domestic Violence, 79 Temp. L. Rev. 877 (2007).
Margaret presented a guest lecture to graduate students on The Dynamics of Domestic Violence and the Legal Process at the UC School of Social Work. The Domestic Violence Clinic participated in Sexual Assault Awareness Month activities on campus (clinic information was distributed at the Tangerman Center at a kick-off event, and the College provided bus transportation for "Take Back the Night" activities).
Margaret attended a meeting of the ABA Commission on Youth at Risk in Washington, D.C. She attended the inaugural meeting of community services providers to trafficking victims in Cincinnati. The meeting was held as part of a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services organizing event to build a Cincinnati coalition to build public awareness and a network of services around the issue of Human Trafficking.
Margaret attended a Washington, D.C. meeting sponsored by Holland & Knight of the clinical directors at American, Georgetown. Stanford, and Yale to determine how best to meet the civil legal needs of victims of human trafficking.
Margaret emceed the annual awards event held by Connections: A Safe Place. The event honors those who have worked to end childhood sexual abuse and to assist abuse survivors. She was quoted in Law Puts Mothers' Duty under Scrutiny, Cincinnati Enquirer, Apr. 2, 2007, at 1A.
Margaret published Do Ask and Do Tell: Rethinking the Lawyer's Duty to Warn in Domestic Violence Cases, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 447 (2006) (with Sarah Buel).
Margaret attended a two-day conference on Domestic Violence and Mediation at the Hamilton County Domestic Relations Court and spoke on the work of the Domestic Relations/Domestic Violence Clinic as part of a panel of local service providers.
Along with her clinic students, Margaret hosted a dinner for clinic students from Detroit's Mercy Law School Immigration Clinic and their clinical professor, David Koelsch, who were in Cincinnati to argue two immigration cases before the Sixth Circuit.
Margaret's article, Lawyer Malpractice and Domestic Violence: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, 39 Fam. L.Q. 7 (2005), was cited in Linda D. Elrod & Honorable James P. Buchele, Kansas Family Law (West, Kansas Law and Practice, 2007 Supp.).
Margaret's published a review of Violence Against Women in Domestic Violence Reports (Civic Research Institute, 2007). She attended the ABA mid-year meeting and the meeting of the Youth At Risk Commission.
Margaret participated in several training sessions:Margaret presented Interview Issues in Sexual Assault Cases at the National Civil Law Institute on Custody Issues in Domestic Violence Cases. She worked with Senator Biden's office in developing a plan to create a nationwide network of pro bono lawyers for victims of domestic violence. (The plan was announced this month by Senator Biden.)
At the invitation of Judge Jerry Bowles, Margaret attended the Jefferson County (KY) domestic violence fatality review team meeting. She also attended a conference on workplace violence issues at Sinclair Community College in Dayton.
Margaret was appointed by the ABA Family Law Section to a workgroup charged with forging a long term relationship with the American Psychological Association on issues of abuse, neglect and endangerment.
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