Noah A. Messing

Noah Messing is Yale Law School’s Lecturer in the Practice of Law and Legal Writing. He teaches appellate advocacy, advanced legal writing, drafting, and arbitration, and he will help to run Yale’s Supreme Court Advocacy clinic during the 2013-2014 academic year. Noah has trained more than 1,000 judges and attorneys to write more effectively. During law school, Noah served as a Coker Fellow and as an editor of The Yale Law Journal. For his work in the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals program, he received both the Benjamin Cardozo Prize for the year's best brief and the Potter Stewart Prize for winning the Spring semester moot court competition. Following graduation, Noah worked as a trial and appellate litigator in Washington D.C., as Counsel to Senator Hillary Clinton, and as Associate Counsel to the Hillary Clinton for President campaign. In 2013, he chaired the Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research section’s panel at the annual conference of the Association of American Law Schools, speaking about the “Past, Present, and Future of Appellate Briefs.” His work on commercial speech has appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, and he is an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association.