CASSANDRA L. HILL, ESQ.
Cassandra L. Hill, Esq. teaches legal research, writing and advocacy to first year students at UCLA School of Law. She also teaches other legal skills including statutory interpretation, fact development, interviewing and client counseling. In her teaching capacity, Professor Hill critiques and edits students’ written work, provides students with substantial written comments, meets individually with students about their work product and organizes student mock oral arguments and trials.
As a clinical instructor, Professor Hill strives to create a supportive, interactive and engaging academic environment. In addition to her more traditional teaching duties, Professor Hill advises students on exam writing techniques and other academic and career matters. She served on the school’s Clerkship Committee, the Library and Technology Committee and Academic Support Committee.
Prior to joining UCLA School of Law’s faculty, Professor Hill was an associate with Baker Botts L.L.P. in Houston, Texas from 1999-2004. At Baker Botts, Professor Hill practiced in the area of Tax/ERISA/employee benefits. She has experience in drafting qualified retirement plans, incentive and bonus compensation plans and various executive compensation arrangements and conducting nondiscriminatory testing for ERISA plans. Professor Hill was also involved in transactional work, including due diligence review and drafting employment agreements. In addition, she conducted research on various topics, such as prohibited transaction and fiduciary duty issues under ERISA and prepared both dispositive and discovery motions for ERISA litigation and has attended hearings on related matters.
Professor Hill also served as a federal law clerk for the Honorable Vanessa D. Gilmore, a United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of Texas in the Houston Division, from 1997 to 1999. As a federal law clerk, Professor Hill conducted legal research, prepared bench memoranda, and drafted orders and opinions for dispositive motions in civil lawsuits, prisoner civil rights litigation, federal and state habeas corpus petitions, and criminal cases. Professor Hill also prepared the jury instructions for civil and criminal trials.
Professor Hill, a native Texan, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and Spanish from the University of Virginia in May 1994. She is also a recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Key. In May 1997, Professor Hill graduated first in her class from Howard University School of Law. While at Howard University, she served as an Articles Editor for the Howard Law Journal and was a member of Phi Alpha Delta and the National Moot Court Team. Professor Hill also received six American Jurisprudence Awards in Legal Writing, Federal Taxation, Evidence, Torts, Securities Regulation and Family Law.
Professor Hill was a summer associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC and McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe in Richmond, VA in 1996 and a legal intern at Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P in Washington, DC in 1997. She also has served as a teaching assistant with the Council for Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) and as a legal intern for the United States Department of Energy.
Professor Hill is licensed by the State Bar of Texas, New York and the District of Columbia. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Wesley Community Center and the Houston READ Commission and on the Executive Committee of the Houston Lawyers Association.
