Timothy Everett

Professor Everett teaches in the Trial and Appellate Divisions of the Criminal Clinic. He also regularly teaches criminal procedure. Professor Everett received a B.A. in English and an M.A. in English Linguistics from Clark University, and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Professor Everett taught law elsewhere and then worked in private practice (land use and environmental law) before joining the clinical staff here in 1987. His special interests include appellate brief writing, use of lexicographic authority in the law, and linguistic perspectives on the practice of law.  He has served on the Board of Directors of Community Partners in Action since 1998, on the IRB at the University of Connecticut Health Center as its prisoner representative since 2003, as a pro bono coordinator at the law school since 2009, and is on the founding committee for the Connecticut Innocence Fund which will provide support to exonerated inmates upon their release from prison (a joint venture of the Connecticut Bar Foundation and Community Partners in Action).