Margot Cleveland

Margot Cleveland is a lawyer and a member of the Illinois State Bar, the Northern District of Illinois Bar, and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as a CPA, licensed in Illinois.  She is a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Price—the law school’s highest honor.  She later served for nearly 25 years as a permanent law clerk for a federal appellate judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  Cleveland is a former full-time faculty member and current adjunct professor for the college of business at the University of Notre Dame, where she received several teaching awards.  She also taught as an adjunct professor at the Ave Maria School of Law.  In addition to teaching, Cleveland is a freelance writer, covering business and legal issues as a Senior Contributor for The Federalist and as a Contributor to National Review Online and the Washington Examiner.  She has also been published in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Areas of Expertise

Business Law

Education

BS, Marquette University

JD, University of Notre Dame

Publications

"Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America", M.E. Sharpe, 2005.

Presentations

Margot O''Brien, National Structured Settlement Trade Association Certification Program, , Notre Dame, "Legal Issues & Implications" ( 2005).

Margot O''Brien, Ave Maria School of Law, , Ann Arbor, MI, "Distance-Learning: Development, Assessment, Lessons & Learning" ( 2004).

Margot O''Brien, National Structured Settlement Trade Association Certification Program, , Notre Dame, "Legal Issues & Implications" ( 2004).

Margot O''Brien, National Structured Settlement Trade Association Certification Program, , Notre Dame, ""Legal Issues & Implications"" ( 2003).

Margot O''Brien, Accounting Lyceum, , University of Notre Dame, "Enron: The Legal Landscape" ( 2002).

Margot O''Brien, National Structured Settlement Trade Association Certification Program, , University of Notre Dame, "Legal Issues & Implications" ( 2002).

Margot O''Brien, Owens-Illinois Executive Program, , University of Notre Dame, "Legal Environment of Business" ( 2002).

Margot O''Brien, National Structured Settlement Trade Association Certification Program, , University of Notre Dame, "Legal Issues & Implications" ( 2001).