Rate My Professor Hilary Reed

Professor Hilary Reed is a Clinical Professor of Lawyering Skills and Strategies at the University of Houston Law Center. She teaches Lawyering Skills and Strategies as well as an upper-level course in Trusts and Wills. Professor Reed is active in the national legal writing community, having chaired several committees for the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research and the Association of Legal Writing Directors. She currently serves on the Executive Board for the AALS LWRR Section. In 2023, she was part of the University of Houston Legal Writing faculty awarded the University of Houston Group Teaching Excellence Award.

Professor Reed earned a B.A. in History from Abilene Christian University, magna cum laude, and a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law, magna cum laude. After law school, she practiced at O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles, focusing on general litigation and corporate bankruptcy. From 2007 to 2017, she taught Legal Research and Writing at Pepperdine. From 2014 to 2017, she also taught Honors Appellate Advocacy and directed the Appellate Moot Court Program there. Professor Reed is passionate about student learning and well-being. She emphasizes practical, problem-based, collaborative instruction to promote bar and practice readiness. She is also interested in the impact of artificial intelligence on legal education and law practice, recently teaching a CLE to several hundred attorneys on the use of generative AI in legal writing.