Mireille Butler has taught Legal Research and Writing for many years at several institutions in the United States and abroad. She currently teaches in the first year Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing program at the University of Washington Law School in Seattle. She also teaches Legal Writing to international students at Berkeley Law and at Sciences Po in Paris, France. Prior to joining the University of Washington Law School, Mireille was the Director of Legal Research and Writing at Pepperdine University School of Law, a position that she held since 2011, and where she formerly served as an Assistant Dean and Director of Career Development. She received her first degree in law from the University of Bordeaux, France, where she was first in her class. She also received a J.D. degree from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, where she graduated Order of the Coif. Mireille has experience as a senior recruiting manager at three multi-national law firms in California, and earlier in her career practiced business law at firms in Seattle and St. Louis. She speaks French and Spanish fluently.