Laurie Kadoch

Professor Kadoch is a Portland native. She was a business entrepreneur involved in the early development of Portland’s Old Port. After graduating fourth in her law school class and earning an MA from the Muskie School she joined the law firm of Verrill & Dana in Portland as a member of the litigation department. As a highly respected member of the Maine Bar, among her accomplishments, she was appointed a dedimus Justice by the Governor of Maine, appointed to task forces on alternative dispute resolution and guardian as litem, and was a recipient of a Maine Bar Foundation Special Recognition Award for Outstanding Pro-Bono Service. She joined the faculty at Vermont Law School in 1997. She brought to teaching the experience of entrepreneurial business management and an active client-centered legal practice. At VLS she was a positive force in development of a dispute-resolution curriculum. She has teaching experience in, among other topics, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Conflict and Communication, Legal Reasoning and a broad spectrum of legal skills curriculum. In 2005, she coached a team of VLS students who won the National ABA Law Student Negotiation Competition and placed second in the International Competition in Dublin, sponsored by the Law Society of Ireland, in which the team represented the United States. Professor Kadoch returned to Portland when she retired from teaching and now looks eagerly forward to a return to the Muskie School as an Instructor of PPM 509: Negotiation in the Fall and PPM 570:Policy Argumentation & Advocacy in the Spring.