Deborah A. Schmedemann*
* © Deborah A. Schmedemann 2008. Professor, formerly Associate Dean for Skills and Clinics, at William Mitchell College of Law. I began teaching in 1982 and have spent most of my teaching time with first-year students, teaching Contracts and coordinating and teaching our firstyear skills course. Many of the ideas stated here have grown out of collaborations with colleagues on the William Mitchell faculty, including Chris Kunz, Ken Kirwin, Ann Iijima, and Mehmet Konar-Steenberg; many thanks to all of them.