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Denise DeForest

About Denise DeForest

Denise was a tutor for Law School Toolbox and Bar Exam Toolbox. Denise currently teaches bar preparation skills at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She thoroughly enjoys trying new and better ways to teach difficult concepts to smart people who are trying to wrap their minds around our legal system.

Prior to her work at DU, Denise decided civil service appeals for a decade as an Administrative Law Judge for the Colorado State Personnel Board. This work built on her years as a disciplinary prosecutor and general counsel to administrative agencies as a Colorado Assistant Attorney General. Denise has also served as a mayoral appointee performing police oversight functions for the cities of Denver, Colorado, and Omaha, Nebraska. At the very start of her legal career, Denise had the pleasure of clerking for the Honorable Stephanie Duncan-Peters of the D.C. Superior Court. Denise attended Georgetown University Law Center.

During those pre-law school years, Denise was an investigator on criminal, civil and administrative cases. Denise still carries a torch for a great investigation. She now teaches the investigative process for state and provincial authorities in the U.S. and Canada as a senior instructor for the National Certified Investigator Training program.

This is Your Brain on Stress

May 8, 2017 By Denise DeForest Leave a Comment

Your Brain On StressDo you want to hear the bad news, the worse news, or the good news?

Let’s start with the bad news. Recent studies have demonstrated (to no lawyer’s surprise) that the study of law and the practice of law are highly stressful situations. This is hardly news, though. Big yawn. You and I both know that the law’s I-can-handle-anything culture shrugs at such pronouncements. [Read more…] about This is Your Brain on Stress

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