Lawrence C. Mann
Professor of Law
Address: Room 309 of New Building
Telephone: (313) 577-6553
E-mail: ae0291@wayne.edu
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EDUCATION:
B.A., University of Michigan;
J.D., Wayne State University.

PROFILE:
Professor Mann received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Wayne State University in 1980 and is a member of The Order of the Coif. Following law school he served as law clerk to Federal District Judge Horace Gilmore in the Eastern District of Michigan. He then practiced law with Dykema Gossett as an associate in the litigation section. In 1984, he became a member of the law school faculty and received tenure in 1990. In 1991, Professor Mann joined the partnership of Bowman and Brooke and for the next seven years tried products liability cases throughout the United States. In 1998, he stepped down from the law firm's management committee and returned to the Law School as an associate professor.

Professor Mann teaches courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, Trial Advocacy, Torts and Products Liability. He serves as the faculty representative to the Student Trial Advocacy Program [STAP] and coaches the STAP National Team. He is a specialist in vehicle products liability litigation having taken cases to verdict in state and federal courts of six states, including Michigan, Missouri, Alabama, Texas, Wisconsin and Washington. In the late 1980s he served as then-Governor Blanchard's Special Counselor on Products Liability and in that capacity published a study of Michigan products liability law.