Steve Alagna

Steve Alagna is an Assistant Professor of Practice and Director of the Appellate Clinic, which focuses its practice on criminal and civil rights cases in federal courts of appeal. The Appellate Clinic also handles other kinds of appellate matters, including representing amici in high-profile appeals. Professor Alagna also teaches Legal Practice, a required writing course for first-year J.D. students.

Before joining the law school faculty full-time, Professor Alagna clerked for the Hon. Albert Diaz on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Before that clerkship, Professor Alagna was an associate at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP in St. Louis, where he practiced primarily in the areas of complex commercial litigation and appeals. Professor Alagna has briefed and argued cases before state and federal trial and appellate courts, and arbitral forums. He is an enrolled citizen of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska.