Jennifer Zedalis

Professor Jennifer Zedalis is the Director of Trial Practice and a senior legal skills professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Before joining the faculty full-time, she practiced law for almost 20 years. She has extensive trial experience. She has handled a wide variety of cases, including capital murder cases, mental health cases, and juvenile cases. Professor Zedalis teaches trial and pretrial litigation courses and advises Florida's nationally competitive trial team. She...See more

Professor Jennifer Zedalis is the Director of Trial Practice and a senior legal skills professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Before joining the faculty full-time, she practiced law for almost 20 years. She has extensive trial experience. She has handled a wide variety of cases, including capital murder cases, mental health cases, and juvenile cases. Professor Zedalis teaches trial and pretrial litigation courses and advises Florida's nationally competitive trial team. She has lectured and taught short courses in trial advocacy and American trial procedures in Poland, Costa Rica, and the United Kingdom. She is the Co-chair of the Florida Bar Gerald T. Bennett Public Defender/Prosecutor Trial Training Program. She is an active member of the criminal law and trial law sections of the Florida Bar. She has served on the executive council of the criminal law section for several terms. She has a bachelor's degree from Duke and a juris doctorate from the University of Florida. See less