Barbara McFarland

Barbara McFarland - Chase College of Law

Director of Student Success Initiatives

Assistant Professor

"I chose Chase after several decades at another law school because I perceived a true commitment here to assisting all students in acquiring the knowledge, skills, ethics, and dedication required for success in law school, on the bar exam, in the practice of law, and in service to the community. It was both a good choice and an accurate perception."

  • Education

  • BS Education, The University of Virginia
  • JD, University of Cincinnati College of Law

  • Courses Taught

  • Basic Legal Skills - Writing

Profile

Professor McFarland is the Director of the Office of Student Success Initiatives, counseling and providing information and programs for everyone from prospective students through former students sitting for the bar exam. She received her B.S. in Education from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She joined the NKU Chase faculty in 2006.

In more than twenty years as a Legal Research and Writing Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, Professor McFarland also taught the Academic Success seminar, the Judicial Extern course, Civil Procedure II, and a senior seminar in Legal Drafting. She coached numerous moot court teams and is a proud member of the Order of Barristers. One day each week, she clerks for a federal magistrate judge, where she specializes in criminal motions and prisoner petitions. She previously clerked for the late Timothy S. Hogan of the Southern District of Ohio, a senior judge in his mid-70's who had never before employed a female law clerk.

Past publications include practitioners' manuals in evidence and a revision of a premises liability treatise, all with Dean Glen Weissenberger of DePaul. Current research interests involve learning style theory as applied to law students with different backgrounds, temperaments, educational experiences, and modes of focusing and acquiring knowledge.

Professor McFarland is a member of the Ohio and federal bars and of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute. In what free time remains, she works on her home and garden or prowls the sidelines of assorted athletic events with her digital camera.

Latest Publications

Five Tips on Writing to a Judge, Bench & Bar 33 (January 2008)

Expletives: Usurpers of Space and Emphasis, 71 Ky. Bench & Bar 30 (2007)