Professor Engel is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Texas School of Law. Following graduation from law school, Professor Engel clerked for Judge Homer Thornberry of the Fifth Circuit of Appeals in Austin, Texas. She then practiced law at Burnham & Hines in Boston, where she primarily represented plaintiffs in civil rights and housing and employment discrimination cases. Professor Engel has previously taught at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Northeastern University School of Law. She comes to Suffolk Law from the faculty at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law where she taught for the past 10 years. Professor Engel is teaching Credit and Catastrophe and Torts at Suffolk Law.

Before entering academia, Professor Griffith served as New York City’s chief of the Fiscal and Securities Division in the Office of the Corporation Counsel from 1976 to 1979. In this position, she negotiated with state, U.S. Treasury, financial institutions, and pension fund representatives to create and implement a four-year financial plan to restore municipal solvency to New York City. She later prepared legislation and financing agreements to effectuate this plan. Earlier in her career, she served as general counsel and assistant administrator for New York City’s Housing and Development Administration. Professor Griffith was an associate with the Wall Street law firm of Hawkins, Delafield & Wood before holding these governmental posts. Professor Griffith is a graduate of Colby College and the University of Chicago Law School.

Mr. Caristi is a three-time graduate of Suffolk University (B.A. '90, M.P.A. '93, J.D. '97). Following his graduation from Suffolk Law, Mr. Caristi represented policy owners during the alternative dispute resolution phase of the Duhaime v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company class action. Mr. Caristi has also worked as a litigation associate for Morrison, Mahoney LLP., as a real estate attorney in private practice, and in a management capacity. Mr. Caristi will teach Drafting Discovery Documents at Suffolk.

Mr. Graves received his B.A. in English from New York University and his J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the former Zaire. He will teach Immigration Law.

Prior to entering academia, she served as international legal counsel to the US Department of State, the US Agency for International Development, and the World Bank in Eastern and Central Europe, Asia and Africa on privatization, infrastructure development and legal reform projects. She recently served as Chief of Party for a State Department Delegation to Liberia on post-conflict reconstruction and workforce development. She has held several high level federal and state positions including Deputy Chief Legal Counsel to Boston's $14.7 billion Central Artery/Tunnel Project, General Counsel to the Executive Office of Education, appointments by the U.S. Attorney General as United States Trustee to the U.S. Department of Justice for the first and fourth circuits where she managed the successful reorganizations of Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant and the Bank of New England, and she served as Deputy Director and General Counsel to the Massachusetts Department of Economic Development.

Her academic background includes a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University, M.Ed. from Boston University, J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, LL.M. from Boston University Law School and she served as a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management.

Mr. Leduc holds a Bachelor's Degree in finance and philosophy from Boston College and received his law degree from Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, Indiana. He will teach Secured Transactions at the law schoo.