Three join Charleston School of Law faculty
Collins, Marcantel, North are teaching legal writing to law students

OCT 30, 2006 -- Three lawyers with extensive writing experience have joined the Charleston School of Law faculty to teach legal research, analysis and writing, Dean Richard Gershon announced.

Collins pursues teaching career

After 10 years of judicial clerkships, N. Brock Collins has joined the faculty to teach legal research and writing to first-year students. Prior to teaching at the school, he served as career clerk to senior U.S. District Judge Sol Blatt, Jr., in Charleston, S.C

Collins is a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he served as notes editor of the Kentucky Law Journal. He also holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Indiana University. Collins also clerked for U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck in Florence, S.C., and U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley Jr., in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Former Marine North trains students

Jennifer L. North received her law degree from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2000. At Texas Wesleyan, she served as the managing editor for the Law Review. Following graduation in 2001, Ms. North received an LLM in admiralty law from Tulane Law School in New Orleans, La.., where she also participated as an editor on the Maritime Law Journal. From December 2001 until August 2006, North was in private practice litigating business and maritime issues.

North received a bachelor's degree from Tulane University. Following graduation in 1991, she received an officer's commission in the U.S. Marine Corps. While on active duty, she worked as a communications officer in Okinawa, Japan. She also trained recruits at Parris Island, S.C., where she was promoted to captain.

Litigator Marcantel joins faculty

Jonathan A. Marcantel, formerly a law clerk to S.C. Court of Appeals Judge William L. Howard Sr., most recently worked as an attorney at the Finkel Law Firm LLC where he focused on commercial and insurance litigation.

A graduate from the College of Charleston with bachelor degrees in political science and history, Marcantel received a law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. While in law school, he interned for the S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal and served as a research editor on the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal.

Marcantel also serves as an adjunct professor of political science at the College of Charleston and serves on the S.C. Bar's Ethics Advisory and Professional Responsibility Committees.

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