Clayton State University
Assistant Professor Sherry Richardson
Paralegal Studies
Sherry Richardson, J.D. - Assistant Professor of Paralegal Studies. Professor Richardson is a full-time Assistant Professor at Clayton State University with extensive legal, business and teaching experience. She teaches in the CSU Paralegal Studies and the Bachelor of Applied Science programs. Professor Richardson earned her Juris Doctor from Arizona State University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of Nevada. As the senior and managing associate with Forrest B. Johnson & Associates for six years, she worked as a trial attorney. Her areas of concentration were medical malpractice, catastrophic personal injury, tort and general litigation. In this position, she successfully argued Service Merchandise, Inc. v. Jackson, 221 Ga. App. 897, 473 S.E.2d 209 (1996) before the Georgia Court of Appeals.
After leaving that position in 1999, she worked as a sole practitioner. This transition gave her the independence to integrate her legal and business skills and share her knowledge. She has been engaged in numerous business ventures, including the co-ownership of a women’s consignment clothing boutique that sold couture designer merchandise in downtown Atlanta. Professor Richardson served as an adjunct instructor at Herzing College and in the Atlanta Public School System Law Magnet Program before she accepted a full-time teaching position at CSU. She has taught courses in business law, introduction to the law, contracts and torts, business organizations, legal issues for managers, legal research and writing, advanced writing, technical writing, leadership skills, speech and technology and the law. In order to further her professional skills while teaching, she served as a legal consultant and general counsel for various local corporations and an arbitrator for the Atlanta Better Business Bureau. She also served as an Advisory Board Member to the Legal Aid Society, an organization that provides quality legal services to low-income individuals.
Courses
Para 1109 - Business Organizations - See WebCT for all class information
Para 1111 - Computers and the Law - See WebCT for all class information
Tech 3115 - Legal Issues for Managers - See WebCT for all class information