She began teaching legal writing in 1998 as an adjunct professor at Marquette while she practiced environmental law in a large firm. She then taught legal writing full time at Penn State and Mercer Universities. In 2003, she took a hiatus from teaching to work as an attorney editor for Thomson Reuters. In 2010, she joined the full-time faculty at Marquette, where she teaches Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research and Advanced Legal Writing. She also serves as an associate editor of Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD.