Elizabeth Lippy joins Temple as a Practice Professor of Law and Director of the Trial Advocacy Program after serving as Assistant, and then Associate Director of Trial Advocacy at American University’s Washington College of Law for almost a decade. She brings extensive experience in both advocacy education and litigation training, and particular expertise in courtroom technology and remote advocacy; the military judicial system; the prosecution and defense of complex sexual assault cases; and coaching student-advocates for success in trial competitions and in the courtroom.
In addition to her work in advocacy education, Professor Lippy is an experienced litigator. She is Of Counsel at Fairlie and Lippy, P.C., which she co-founded in 2009, and Executive Director of Trial Advocacy Consulting and Training, LLC (TACT), which provides trial advocacy training and consulting to practicing attorneys nationwide. She is a 2003 graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she excelled as a member of the National Trial Team and served as a trial team coach and Visiting Lecturer for the LL.M. in Trial Advocacy program from 2003 to 2009.