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Prof.
William M. Janssen
P.O.
Box 535
Charleston, S.C. 29402
843.377.2442
wjanssen@charlestonlaw.edu
Career
J.D.,
Washington College of Law at American University
B.A., with honors, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Adjunct
instructor of law, Temple University School of Law
Litigation
partner, Saul Ewing, Philadelphia, Pa.
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William
M. Janssen
Assistant Professor of Law
Professor William M. Janssen teaches civil procedure,
products liability and First Amendment law.
Janssen joined the faculty after a lengthy practice
with the mid-Atlantic law firm of Saul Ewing LLP, where he was
then a litigation partner, chair of the firm's interdisciplinary
Life Sciences Practice Group, and a member of the firm's seven-member
governing executive committee. Janssen concentrated his practice
in pharmaceutical, medical device, and mass torts defense, risk
management, and counseling.
Widely quoted on pharmaceutical and medical device
issues in legal journals, trade periodicals and newspapers, Janssen
has been involved in several high-profile drug and device cases,
including the national diet drug ("fen-phen") litigation.
Janssen's writings on drug and device law and civil procedure
have appeared in numerous publications.
He is also a co-author of two nationally-distributed
texts on federal practice and procedure published by Thomson/West,
the Federal Civil Rules Handbook and A Student's Guide
to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Janssen is also a
co-author of Volume 12B of the national federal civil rules treatise,
Wright & Miller, Federal Practice And Procedure.
Janssen, who served as an adjunct instructor at
Temple University School of Law for five academic terms, received
his bachelor's degree in international relations and history from
Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia and his law degree from
The American University's Washington College of Law. During law
school, he was the executive editor of the American University
Law Review, a Moot Court board member, and the first-year Moot
Court champion. After law school, Janssen served as a law clerk
to a federal district court judge and to a federal court of appeals
judge.
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