Course Mentors

WILLIAM J. MULKEEN, program director, is a graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law. He has been active in legal education for more than 30 years and has most recently served as the president of the American Association for Paralegal Education (AAfPE). Mulkeen is also a member of the AAfPE Technology Task Force. He has been an active team member with various national paralegal accrediting agencies that are part of the Council of Higher Education Accreditation of the United States Department of Education and has served as a civilian and military paralegal program reviewer with the American Council on Education (ACE). Mulkeen is also the past president of the Academic Council at Thomas Edison State College.

NANCY WILSON SOGA, RN is a graduate of Cameron University in Oklahoma and Long Island University in N.Y. Wilson Soga is currently completing her doctoral studies. She has practiced nursing for more than sixteen years and has maintained an independent legal nurse consulting practice since 1990. She is a charter member of the Morristown, N.J. chapter of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, holding executive board positions including serving as president in 2002. She was active in providing assistance in crisis management to rescue and relief workers during the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Wilson Soga is an associate editor of Legal Nurse Consulting, Principles and Practice, 2nd edition (2002).

MICHAEL C. KING is a graduate of George Mason School of Law and is currently chair of the Business Division at Essex County College. He has been involved in legal education for more than 20 years and is currently a member of the Thomas Edison State College Business Advisory Board and the Manhattan College School of Business Advisory Board. He will be mentoring the Torts course.

RAQUEL Y. BRISTOL is a graduate of Rutgers Law School and is currently an appellate attorney in New Jersey. She has significant experience teaching English composition and legal research and writing at both introductory and advanced levels and has served as an editor at a national legal publishing company. She will be mentoring the Legal Research and Writing course.

CHARLOTTE RISER HARRIS is a graduate of Virginia Tech and the Southwestern Paralegal Institute. She has been a paralegal for more than 10 years and was the manager of Practice Support at Vinson & Elkins, an international law firm, where her duties included coordination of the firm’s litigation support technology, electronic discovery, data and document management, trial presentation and internal training. She is currently a partner with Five Star Legal Compliance, Inc. in Los Angeles. She will be mentoring the Litigation course.

WILLIAM JENSON is a graduate of the Suffolk University Law School and is the judicial officer of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The judicial officer is the final deciding officer in administrative adjudicatory proceedings conducted by the USDA. He is also vice-chair of the American Bar Association’s section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice in Agriculture and has taught administrative law at the USDA Graduate School for many years. He will be mentoring the Administrative Law course.

THOMAS GOLDMAN is a graduate of Temple Law School and is the author of several leading paralegal textbooks, including The Paralegal Profession and Technology in the Law Office. He has served as a paralegal program director for many years and as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for Paralegal Education (AAfPE). He is currently the chair of the AAfPE Technology Task Force. He will be mentoring the Introduction to Technology in the Law course.