Ramona Lampley

Ph: (210) 436.3541
Email: rlampley@stmarytx.edu

Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., (with honors) 1999, Wake Forest University
J.D.,(magna cum laude) 2004, Wake Forest University School of Law

Before St. Mary's:

Lampley graduated magna cum laude from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2004, where she was named Outstanding Graduate from the National Association of Women Lawyers. Following law school, she served as a law clerk for The Hon. Harris L Hartz who sits on The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Before joining the faculty at St. Mary’s, Lampley practiced complex civil litigation at Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP in Denver, Colorado, where she specialized in commercial class action disputes, corporate disputes, arbitration enforcement, punitive damages, and professional malpractice. Lampley began her teaching career as a visiting assistant professor at Wake Forest University School of Law from 2007-2008.

While in Denver, Lampley was Chair of the Board of Directors The Gathering Place, a day shelter that provides a wide range of services to individuals in need. Lampley was also named one of Denver Business Journal’s 2012 “Forty under Forty” of promising business professionals and a Colorado Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2011. She now lives in San Antonio with her husband and two-year old daughter. Her hobbies include hiking, tennis, and investment market analysis.

Specialties:

Commercial Law
Civil Procedure
Class Actions
Evidence
Contracts-Sales
Consumer Law
Evidence
Poverty Law

Publications:

Is Arbitration Under Attack?: Exploring the Recent Judicial Skepticism of the Class Arbitration Waiver and Innovative Solutions to the Unsettled Legal Landscape, 18 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 477 (2009).
In Memoriam: The Honorable Philip S. Figa, 86 Denv. U.L. Rev. 851 (2009) (co-authored).
False Security: How Courts Have Improperly Rendered the Protections of the Protective Order Illusory, Denver University Law Review Online, March 31, 2011.

Highlights:

Chair, Board of Directors, 2011-2012; Board of Directors, 2009-present at The Gathering Place, Denver, a day shelter for women and children experiencing poverty
Denver Business Journal’s Forty-Under-Forty Award Recipient, 2012
Colorado Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2011
Law Week Colorado’s Up-and-Coming Lawyers, 2011
Denver Business Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business Nominee, 2011
American Constitution Society, Member
Colorado Women’s Bar Association, Member