Professor Shestowsky gives talk about 'Litigation from the Client's Perspective'

Professor Donna Shestowsky addressed a lunchtime Yolo County Bar Association gathering on Sept. 20 in Woodland. Her topic was “Understanding Litigation from the Client’s Perspective.”

Shestowsky shared the results of her multi-court study of state court litigants. It examines how litigants evaluate and compare procedures at the start of their court cases.

Donna Shestowsky, who has both a law degree and a Ph.D. in psychology, is director of the Lawyering Skills Education Program, a professor of law and a Martin Luther King, Jr., Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law, where she teaches Criminal Law, Negotiation Strategy, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and a seminar in Legal Psychology.  She was the 2007 recipient of the Law School's Distinguished Teaching Award.