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Biography

Ms. Starr, a litigator, graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2000.  At Georgetown, Ms. Starr was the Executive Notes and Comments Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.  She was also a Founding Editor of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law and served as one of that journal's first Article and Notes Editors.  From 2000 to 2001, Ms. Starr served as a law clerk to the Honorable Barefoot Sanders, Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas.  Prior to joining Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, Ms. Starr was an Assistant Defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia litigating felony and misdemeanor cases. 

Ms. Starr received her A.B. in Anthropology from Brown University in 1993 where she focused her studies on Archaeology, excavating both in Rhode Island and in Israel.  Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Starr was an Assistant Director of Admission at Brown University and the Program Director at the Dorot Foundation.

Ms Starr practices both criminal and complex civil litigation in state and federal court.

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, 2000
J.D.
cum laude
Dean’s List

Brown University, Providence, RI, 1993
A.B.
Phi Beta Kappa
W. Gaston Premium Scholarship in Anthropology for Best Archaeology Student

Clerkship

Hon. Barefoot Sanders, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas, Texas, 2000 - 2001

Honors and Awards

Pennsylvania Rising Star, 2005
Georgetown Law Journal, Executive Notes and Comments Editor
Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Founding Member, Article and Notes Editor

Publications

Termination of Representation: A Call for Class-Conscious Ethical Deliberation, Essay, 7 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol'y 147 (2000).

The Authority of the Trial Judge, Twenty-eighth Annual Review of Criminal Procedure, 87 Geo. L.J. 1059, 1590 (1999).

 

Professional Associations and Memberships

American Bar Association
Philadelphia Chapter Criminal Justice Section White Collar Criminal Young Lawyers Division, Steering Committee
American Constitution Society, Philadelphia Chapter, Steering Committee
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Philadelphia Bar Association
Professional Women's Roundtable

Teaching / Lecturing

Panelist, "The Constitution in the 21st Century."  American Democracy Institute, Regional Summit, Philadelphia, 2006.

Associate Lecturer in Law, Appellate Advocacy, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Fall 2005

Law Fellow, Legal Research and Writing, Georgetown University Law Center, 1998-2000

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania
New Jersey  
Massachusetts
United States District Court, Northern District of Texas
United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
United States Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit