Law Clinic Faculty

Bryan Adamson, Associate Professor of Law, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic
B.S., Ph.B., Miami University, 1985; M.A., Purdue University, 1987; J.D. Case Western Reserve University, 1990. Before arriving at Seattle University in 2002, Professor Adamson had been a member of the clinical faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Law since 1995. During that time, he also served four years as its Assistant Dean for Student Services. Before teaching full time, Professor Adamson served as a litigation associate with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, and a prosecutor for Cuyahoga County (Ohio). He is currently Chair-Elect of the AALS Section of Clinical Legal Education. Professor Adamson teaches the Civil Practice Clinic.

Robert C. Boruchowitz, Visiting Clinical Professor, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic
B.A. Kenyon College, 1970. J.D. Northwestern University, 1973. Professor Boruchowitz was an attorney at The Defender Association, a non-profit public defender office in King County, for 33 years, 28 years as Director. He handled appeals at all levels of the state and federal courts and argued the Seling v. Young case in the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging the application of Washington’s "sexually violent predator" law. Founding president of the Washington Defender Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the American Council of Chief Defenders, he has been instrumental in developing defender standards that have been endorsed by the Washington State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Honored as a Soros Senior Fellow in 2003, he documented the failure of many Washington courts to provide counsel to eligible accused persons and he persuaded local governments to begin providing lawyers at arraignments. He has continued to write and speak at continuing legal education seminars about the denial of the right to counsel. Professor Boruchowitz teaches in the Youth Advocacy Clinic.

Lisa Brodoff, Clinical Professor, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic
B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, University of Vermont, 1977; J.D., Hofstra University School of Law, 1980. Note and comment editor of the Law Review. Admitted to practice in Washington State, the Western District of Washington, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Before joining the faculty in 1997, Professor Brodoff served as chief review judge in the Office of Appeals for the Washington Department of Social and Health Services and was appointed chief administrative law judge for the Office of Administrative Hearings. She has also worked as an attorney for the Puget Sound Legal Assistance Foundation and as legislative staff counsel to the Washington Senate. Professor Brodoff currently teaches the Administrative Law Clinic, Trusts and Estates Clinic, and Elder Law.

Elizabeth Ford, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic
B.A. Mount Holyoke College, 1986; J.D. Northeastern University School of Law, 1992. Professor Ford has served as an adjunct professor and then Visiting Legal Writing Professor at Seattle University School of Law, teaching Dispute Resolution, Labor Law, and Legal Writing. Prior to coming to Seattle University, Ms. Ford practiced as a labor and employment attorney for 15 years, representing labor unions including the Washington State Nurses Association, for whom she was Chief Counsel. In 2005, Ms. Ford was appointed by the Governor to serve as on the Marine Employees Commission where she assists the Washington State Ferries and its unions resolve its disputes as a mediator or sitting as hearing officer. She is also a permanent member of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and Public Employment Relations Commission’s panel of arbitrators. Ms. Ford provides frequent trainings and workshops in the area of dispute resolution and serves as a lecturer with the University of Washington. Professor Ford is teaching in the Law School's first-ever Mediation Clinic.

Paul Holland, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic Director and Assistant Professor of Law, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic
B.A., Harvard University (with honors), J.D., New York University School of Law (with honors), L.L.M. in Advocacy, Georgetown University. Professor Holland joined the Seattle University faculty in 2004 and was appointed Clinic Director in June 2006. Before coming to Seattle, he taught for seven years at Georgetown – two as a Prettyman Fellow and five as visiting professor and deputy director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic; two years as the director of the ChildLaw Clinic at Loyola University Chicago School of Law; and three years as a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School’s Child Advocacy Law Clinic. Professor Holland’s teaching and practice have addressed juvenile justice, child welfare, special education and other school-related matters. In 2005, Governor Gregoire appointed Professor Holland to the Governor’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee; Professor Holland was recently named vice-chair of the committee.

Betsy Hollingsworth, Emeritus Clinical Professor, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic
B.A. cum laude, Occidental College, 1970; J.D., University of Washington, 1975. Admitted to practice in Washington State. Before joining the faculty in 1986, Professor Hollingsworth was chief of the Consumer Protection Section of the Washington Attorney General's Office. She has also worked in private practice and as a deputy prosecuting attorney in the Criminal, Juvenile, and Fraud Divisions of the King County (Seattle) Prosecutor's Office. Professor Hollingsworth was Interim Director of the Clinic from 2000-2002, and has taught Criminal Law and Evidence. She currently serves as vice-chair of the Washington Council on Crime and Delinquency. Professor Hollingsworth teaches in the Civil Practice Clinic.

Raven Lidman, Clinical Professor, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic
B.A., Cornell University, 1967; J.D., Seattle University School of Law, 1977. Admitted to practice in Washington State and the Federal District Court, Western Washington. Before joining the faculty in 1987, Professor Lidman was managing attorney in the Olympia office of Puget Sound Legal Assistance Foundation and in private practice in Olympia. Professor Lidman has taught Family Law, and currently teaches in the Law Practice Clinic/Youth Advocacy Clinic and International Human Rights Clinic.