Dale Margolin: Youth Advocate

What I do:

Dale Margolin Cecka is a clinical professor of law and the founder and director of the Jeanette Lipman Family Law Clinic at the University of Richmond School of Law. A graduate of Stanford University and Columbia University School of Law, Professor Cecka is a member of the Virginia State Bar and the New York State Bar. Her scholarship has appeared in Catholic University Law Review, South Carolina Law Review, and West Virginia Law Review, among others, and she was a contributor to the book to Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court, published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Professor Cecka is the lead author of the treatise Family Law: Theory, Practice, Forms, 2018 and 2019 editions.  Professor Cecka was a recipient of a prestigious Skadden Fellowship and serves on the board of directors of the Virginia State Bar Section on the Education of Lawyers.