Nicole Porter Associate Professor of Law Office: LC 2007E Campus Phone: (419) 530-4785 E-Mail:  Nicole.Porter2@utoledo.edu Secretary: Sandy Garcia; (419) 530-2878

Nicole B. Porter joined the College of Law faculty in 2007. She teaches Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Disability Discrimination, Contracts, Criminal Law and Feminist Legal Theory. She was previously Assistant Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law since 2004. Her research interests focus on the employment rights of women and individuals with disabilities. Prior to her academic career, Porter was in-house counsel for a manufacturing company in Michigan, and also practiced employment law in a large law firm in Detroit. Porter received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was the Editor in Chief of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. Porter graduated from Michigan’s law school with honors, magna cum laude, and she is a member of the Order of the Coif. After law school, Porter began her law career clerking for the Honorable James L. Ryan, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Publications

The Perfect Compromise: Bridging the Gap between At-Will Employment and Just Cause, 87 Nebraska L. Rev. --- (forthcoming 2008).

From Law School to Law Practice: Seamless Transition or Giant Leap?, St. Louis Bar Journal (Summer 2008)

Reasonable Burdens: Resolving the Conflict Between Employees with Disabilities and Their Co-Workers, 34 Florida State Law Review 313 (2007).

Victimizing the Abused? Is Termination the Solution When Domestic Violence Comes to Work? 12 University of Michigan Journal of Gender and Law 275 (2006).

Finding Balance in the Law Firm Environment, St. Louis Lawyer (March 2006).

Redefining Superwoman: An Essay on Overcoming the “Maternal Wall” in the Legal Workplace, 13 Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 55 (2006).

Saying Goodbye to Superwoman: Finding Balance in the Law Firm Environment, Saint Louis Brief , Fall 2005, at 22.

Sex Plus Age Discrimination: Protecting Older Women Workers, 81 Denver University Law Review 79 (2003).

Marital Status Discrimination: A Proposal for Title VII Protection, 46 Wayne Law Review 1 (2000).

Resurrecting a Dead Horse - An Old Solution to a 'New' Problem: Certification of Arbitrators to Achieve Diversity, 76 University of Detroit Law Review 483 (1998).

Book Reviews

6 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 467 (2004) (Reviewing Holly English, Gender on Trial: Sexual Stereotypes and Work/Life Balance in the Legal Workplace (2003)).

Works In Progress

Why Care?: A Communitarian Approach to Defining the Caregiver Conundrum

A Foursome of Flaws: Identifying the Four Most Common Errors Made in Proposals to Remedy Caregiver Discrimination

Professional Service

Presenter, Second Annual Colloquium in Labor and Employment Law, A Foursome of Flaws: Identifying the Four Most Common Errors Made in Proposals to Remedy Caregiver Discrimination, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, and University of Colorado Law School, October 2007.

Presenter, Labor and Employment Law Colloquium, The Employment Termination Equity Act: Finding a Compromise Between Employment At-Will and Just Cause, Marquette University Law School, October 2006.

Guest Speaker, Work/Life Balance Solutions, sponsored by The Women Lawyers Association of Greater St. Louis, May 2006.

Panelist, Plenary Panel: Jay Healey Teaching Session, "Clashing Perspectives in the Classroom," 30th Annual Health Law Teachers Conference, June 2006.

Presenter, Jurisgenesis: New Voices on the Law, “Accommodating Employers by Accommodating Employees: Resolving the Conflict Between Employees with Disabilities and Their Co-Workers,” Washington University, June 2006.

Panelist, "The Glass Ceiling, Sticky Floor, Maternal Wall, and Other Barriers to Advancement," Midwest Regional Conference for Women in the Law, June 2006.

Moderator, Employment Discrimination Update, Midwest Regional Conference for Women in the Law, June 2006.

"Stuck in the Middle...Is There a Compromise Between Employment At-Will and Just Cause Terminations?" International Contracts Conference at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, February 2006.

Workshop, "The Reasonableness of Equal Opportunity Under the Americans with Disabilities Act," University of Missouri Law School, February 2006.

Commentator, "Disabilities and Injured Athletes," Symposium: Sports Medicine: Doping, Disability and Health Quality, Saint Louis University School of Law, March 2005.

Commentator to Professor Rolf Wank on "Latest Developments in Antidiscrimination Law, EC, German, U.S.," Saint Louis University School of Law, October 2005.