Professor DeLeith Duke Gossett

Assistant Professor of Legal Practice, 2010 (806) 742-3990 x313 Email: deleith.gossett@ttu.edu

Professor Gossett joined Texas Tech University School of Law in 2010 as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Legal Practice. Professor Gossett graduated with honors from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, where she served as Notes Editor and sat on the Editorial Board of the UALR Law Review. While in law school, her writing abilities earned her the top grade in both Legal Writing I and II, and she received the 2001 Arkansas Bar Foundation Legal Writing Award for her published article: Media Ride-Alongs into the Home: Can They Survive a Head-on Collision Between First and Fourth Amendment Rights? Wilson v. Layne, 22 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 679 (2000).

Following graduation, Professor Gossett accepted a federal clerkship with the late John Hannah, Jr., then Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. That initial term clerkship led to a career clerkship, and she assisted Judge Hannah with a docket heavy in qualified immunity cases for governmental actors, as well as Title VII, age, and disability discrimination cases. Following Judge Hannah's death, Professor Gossett then clerked for federal District Judges Leonard Davis and Michael H. Schneider, and federal Magistrate Judge John D. Love, all of the Eastern District of Texas. During the last five years she was with the federal courts, she experienced first-hand the explosive growth of the patent docket in the Eastern District of Texas.

In private practice, Professor Gossett returned to federal court, as she represented governmental actors in qualified immunity cases, employers in Title VII cases, and served as local counsel in patent cases. She also enjoyed appellate practice in both federal and state court. Professor Gossett is admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States District for the Eastern District of Texas, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and all Texas state courts.

Degrees

B.S.E., University of Central Arkansas, magna cum laude, 1998

J.D., University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, with honors, 2001