Hilary Reed
Clinical Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Professor Hilary Reed teaches Lawyering Skills and Strategies, as well as an upper-level course in Trusts and Wills. She is active in the national legal writing community, including chairing several committees for both the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research (LWRR) 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 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.
She 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, where her work focused 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.
