Joseph W. Rand
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EDUCATION
1996-1998 STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, Stanford, CA.
3.85/4.0, J.S.M degree.
Individually-designed masters program specializing in cognitive psychology in legal negotiation and decision-making.
1989-1992 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER, Washington, D.C.
J.D., magna cum laude, May 1992.
Order of the Coif
Dean’s List (all semesters)
Georgetown Law Journal, Senior Notes & Comments Editor
Robert Wagner Moot Court Team
1985-1989 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C.
B.A., Government, May 1989. Georgetown University Student Association Representative, University Presidential Search Committee Member, Georgetown Voice Editor, Georgetown University Chimes Member.
EMPLOYMENT
2001-present RWSP REALTY, LLC, New City, N.Y.
Managing Partner and General Counsel for real estate brokerage and affiliated companies with over 100 employees and 800 independently contracted agents, including Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty, Rand Commercial Services, Hudson Abstract Services, Rand Mortgage, and Hudson General Insurance.
2001-2005 FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL, NEW YORK, N.Y.
Adjunct Professor of Law. Subject: Property I, II.
1998-2001 BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL, BROOKLYN, N.Y.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Instructor of Law. Subjects: Legal Process, Appellate Advocacy, Legal Decision-Making and Judgment, Legal Writing.
1996-1998 STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, STANFORD, CA.
Teaching Fellow. Subject: Legal Writing (concurrent with J.S.M. program).
1994-1996 DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON, N.Y., N.Y.
Litigation Associate. Involved in all phases of commercial litigation and lead pro bono counsel for nonprofit theater for copyright licensing issues. Briefed and argued case before United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
1992-1994 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT.
Law Clerk to the (late) Hon. Frank X. Altimari.
1991 BREED ABBOTT & MORGAN
Summer Associate.
1990-1991 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Research and Teaching Assistant to Prof. William N. Eskridge, Jr. for Procedure class.
LEGAL PUBLICATIONS
Understanding Why Good Lawyers Go Bad: Using Case Studies in Teaching Cognitive Bias in Legal Decision-Making, 9 CLINICAL L. REV. 731 (2003). Article introducing decision-making concepts deriving from prospect theory and cognitive biases, and evaluating case studies of lawyering behavior.
The Demeanor Gap: Race, Lie Detection, and the Jury, 33 CONN. L. REV. 1 (2000) (lead article in volume) (article exploring whether cross-racial differences undermine effective jury demeanor evaluations based on established social science principles of lie-detection).
What Would Learned Hand Do?: Inadvertent Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege and the New Information Technologies, 66 BROOK. L. REV. 361 (2000) (article examining effect of new information technologies on ethical rules governing protection of attorney-client privilege).
A Portrait of an Artist as a Wise Man: Judge Altimari’s Jurisprudence, 15 TOURO L. REV. 1439 (1999) (co-author) (essay reviewing the personal political theory of the late Hon. Frank X. Altimari on the United States Court of Appeals).
The Residual Exceptions to the Federal Hearsay Rules: The Futile and Misguided Attempt to Restrain Judicial Discretion, 80 GEO. L. J. 873 (1992) (student note)
Influences on the Jury, 79 GEO. L. J. 1004 (1991) (contributing student author)
LEGAL PRESENTATIONS
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW
Fifth International Clinical Conference: Problem Solving in Clinical Education (November 2001). Presenting paper on teaching legal decisionmaking through an introduction to cognitive psychology literature on judgment.
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES (LONDON, ENGLAND).
W.G. Hart Workshop: The Changing Work and Organisation of Lawyers: Educational Implications (June 2001). Presenting paper on the use of management-style case studies to teach students on ethical issues implicated by their own bounded rationality.
PRACTICING LAW INSTITUTE.
Practicing Law Institute on Privacy Law: Strategies for Legal Compliance in a High-Tech & Changing Regulatory Environment (June 2001). Presentation on “Client Confidentiality and Ethics,” including the ethical implications for lawyers in the use of new technologies for client communication.
