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Professor Atiba R. Ellis graduated from Duke University School of Law in 2000 and received both his Juris Doctor and a Masters in History. From 2000-01, he clerked for Judge James A. Beaty, Jr., United States District Court in the Middle District of North Carolina in Winston-Salem, N.C. From 2001-02, he clerked for Judge Theodore McKee on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, PA. Following this clerkship, Professor Ellis joined the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C. where he worked on complex civil litigation. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar. He will teach Legal Research, Reasoning and Writing I and II and Legal Writing II for the 2006-07 academic term.

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