Lecturer Bio
Wendy B. Davis, Esq.
Prof. Davis earned her B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and her J.D. from Boston College Law School, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif. Prof. Davis practiced law at the firms of Hamblett & Kerrigan in Nashua, New Hampshire; Bingham Dana (now Bingham McCutcham) in Boston, Massachusetts; and Peabody & Brown (now Nixon & Peabody) in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in commercial real estate transactions and banking law. She was later employed as a Vice President of Shawmut Bank (now Bank of America), in charge of compliance and credit training. She has taught at Suffolk University Law School and Appalachian School of Law, and also taught paralegal courses including Corporate Law, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Business Law, and Fundamentals of Legal Assisting at The New England College of Finance, Suffolk University, and Northeastern University. She is currently on leave from the Appalachian School of Law, where she is Dean of Students and an Associate Professor of Law. She has published in the Interstate Tax Report, The University of Texas Forum on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, The Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law of the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College, American University Law Review, Stetson Law Review, Seattle University Law Review, the Appalachian Journal of Law, and the Bar Journals of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Boston, and New York. She is active in paralegal education, and participated in the drafting of the Paralegal Advanced Proficiency Exam by the National Federation of Paralegal Associations. She is admitted to practice in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. She is a private pilot and finished the 1999 Boston Marathon. Professor Davis teaches Commercial Law, Property, Natural Resources, Contracts, and Aviation Law.
