About
Professor DeWalt is the Director of Legal Writing and a Professor of Legal Writing at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she teaches first-year legal writing and upper-level writing and legal skills courses. She coaches several competitive negotiation and skills teams and served for three years as the national problem writer for the ABA Negotiation Competition. An active member of the Legal Writing Institute and the Association of Legal Writing Directors, she regularly presents on legal writing pedagogy at national legal writing conferences across the country. Professor DeWalt also serves as faculty advisor for the Organization for the Advancement of Women in Law.
Professor DeWalt joined OU Law in 2012 after practicing civil litigation at Gungoll, Jackson, Collins, Box & Devoll, P.C., in Enid, Oklahoma, where the Garfield County Bar Association recognized her as its Outstanding Young Lawyer. Her private practice focused on litigation in oil and gas law, construction law, commercial law, negligence, contract disputes, and property disputes. She earned her J.D. with Honors from OU, served as a Note Editor for the Oklahoma Law Review, and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Professor DeWalt has previously served on the Board of Editors for the Oklahoma Bar Journal and as a Director for the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division.
Additional Information
Member of the Board of Editors for the Oklahoma Bar Journal