In July 2005, Margaret Drew became director of the newly organized Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic.  (Formerly named the Domestic Relations/Domestic Violence Clinic.) The clinic is in partnership with Legal Aid of Greater Cincinnati.

Professor Drew began practicing law in Massachusetts in 1980. She represented victims of violence in the District, Family and Appellate Courts of Massachusetts. For the 2001-2002 academic year, she was a teacher and supervising attorney with the Domestic Violence Clinic at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. From 2002-2005 Professor Drew was an adjunct professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law while continuing her representation of domestic violence clients, primarily in the Appellate Courts.

Professor Drew continues to train attorneys on effective representation of victims of domestic abuse and she consults on domestic violence cases.   

Professor Drew is a former executive committee member of the National Association of Women Lawyers; previously, she served as the NAWL delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. Professor Drew is a member of the amicus committee for NAWL and chaired the committee from 1998-2005. She continues to co-chair the committee.  She is a member of the NAWL Supreme Court Committee, which reviews the President’s nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Professor Drew is immediate past chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic Violence and is special advisor to the Commission. She is a member of the Hamilton County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council and the Fatality Review Team.

In addition to having an interest in financial aspects of abuse and the isolation of suburban victims, Professor Drew, a Reiki Master, has a particular interest in the spiritual healing of victims of violence.

Professor Drew is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts (B.A) Northeastern University School of Law (J.D.) and of Boston University School of Law (LL. M. in Taxation.).

Professor Drew published an article entitled Lawyer Malpractice: Are We Re-Victimizing Our Domestic Violence Clients? in the 2005 spring volume of The Family Law Quarterly.  In the winter, 2006 volume of the University of Cincinnati Law Review, Professor Drew and her co-author, Sarah Buel, published “Do Ask and Do Tell:  Rethinking the Lawyer’s Duty to Warn in Domestic Violence Cases”.  The article was part of a symposium held on the 30th anniversary of the Tarasoff case.  Her current projects include a domestic violence discovery handbook. Her essay on self-care in 2008 can be found at www.ABA.org.

Professor Drew was an editor and contributing author of the ABA 2005 publication The Impact of Domestic Violence on Your Legal Practice, 2d ed. She assisted the National Consumer Law Center in editing its publication: Massachusetts Guide On Consumer Credit for Victims of Domestic Violence.

Download a copy of Professor Drews's Curriculum Vitae (pdf).