About
Professor Taylor J. Freeman Peshehonoff is an Associate Professor of Legal Practice and Director of Competitions at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. She teaches professional development, oral advocacy, trial advocacy, and other skills-based courses designed to prepare students for the demands of legal practice.
As Director of Competitions, Professor Peshehonoff oversees interscholastic advocacy opportunities for approximately 90 students each year. Under her leadership, OU Law’s moot court program returned to the top of the Blakely Advocacy Institute rankings, earning the College invitations to a national moot court invitational reserved for top-ranked programs.
Professor Peshehonoff is also active in the national legal advocacy education community. She serves as Vice President of Moot Court for the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators. She has presented at conferences hosted by Temple University and Stetson University on advocacy coaching, program funding, the transition from legal practice to coaching and teaching, and the importance of advocacy education in the current academic landscape.
Before joining OU Law, Professor Peshehonoff practiced civil litigation in Oklahoma City, focusing on labor and employment matters and insurance defense. She managed cases through discovery and substantive motion practice and prepared for and served as an associate on a federal trial team. She previously served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Leslie H. Southwick of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Professor Peshehonoff earned both her B.B.A., summa cum laude, and her J.D. with honors from the University of Oklahoma. At OU Law, she served as Managing Editor of the Oklahoma Law Review and earned membership in the Order of the Coif, Order of Barristers, and National Order of Scribes. As an active member of the Competitions Program, she earned both team and individual honors at national moot court competitions. Her scholarship includes “Title VII’s Deficiencies Affect #MeToo: A Look at Three Ways Title VII Continues to Fail America’s Workforce,” published in the Oklahoma Law Review.