Prior to joining the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2008, Professor Dickman clerked for the
Honorable Frank M. Hull of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2005 to
2008) and for the Honorable Beverly B. Martin of the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Georgia (2004 to 2005). Before that, he worked as an associate at the law
firm of Baker & Hostetler LLP in Washington, D.C., where he was a member of the
firm’s First Amendment and general litigation practice groups and worked on a wide
variety of litigation matters. Among other things, Professor Dickman drafted pretrial
briefs and motions and participated in all phases of discovery in government access,
defamation and trademark matters. He also served as local counsel for a major automobile
manufacturer in its Virginia "lemon law" litigation and defended a pro bono
client in a trademark action in federal court.
Professor Dickman is a 2002 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where
he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served on the editorial board of the Virginia
Law Review. He earned a B.A. in government with a minor in economics from the University
of Virginia in 1999. Professor Dickman is a member of the Virginia and District of
Columbia bars. He teaches legal writing at Chicago-Kent. His research interests lie in
the areas of civil procedure, federal courts, and law and technology, with a particular
focus on procedural issues arising out of new technologies.
Civil Procedure
First Amendment
