RALEIGH – T.G. Falcon and Stephen Gordon will join Campbell Law School as visiting professors for the 2023-24 academic year, Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced.
Falcon, who is an associate at Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan LLP, will teach property for the law school this fall. Falcon is in the Technology, Transactions and IP Group at Smith Anderson. His research areas include intellectual property, technology, entertainment and disability rights.
Previously, Falcon has worked as an associate corporate counsel for Amazon.com in the PMX group in Seattle, as an associate for Fenwick and West LLP in Silicon Valley and for Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York.
In 2015, Falcon earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Duke University School of Law, where he was named to the Order of the Coif, served as the Online Editor of the Duke Law Journal, vice president of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society and received the Siegel Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Performance.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in 2005 in political science. He is currently licensed to practice law in New York and California.
Since 2021, Gordon has been a federal public defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina, where he served as an assistant Federal Public Defender from 1997 to 2021. In these roles, he represented indigent defendants charged with federal felonies and misdemeanors at all stages of the litigation phase, from initial appearance through sentencing. In addition, he has represented convicted clients in the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He wrote and argued numerous appeals in the Fourth Circuit and argued McNeill v. United States in 2011 in the Supreme Court.
From 1990 to 1997, Gordon was a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Atlanta in the Antitrust Division and served as Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia, where he investigated and prosecuted complex conspiracies, including price fixing and bid rigging conspiracies, involving companies in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
He has supervised law student interns, working closely with them on their legal writing and providing them opportunities to appear in court and to work with clients.
After graduating from Duke University School of Law with honors in 1988, Gordon clerked for the Honorable Charles L. Becton and the Honorable Allyson K. Duncan in the North Carolina Court of Appeals. He earned a master’s degree in English from California Polytechnic State University Pomona in English and a B.A. in English from Pitzer College.
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