Professor in the Practice of Law and Executive Director, Center for Transactional Law and Practice

Areas of Expertise
Transactional Law

Biography

Carol D. Newman, professor in the practice of law and executive director of Emory’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice, is a retired partner from Powell Goldstein LLP, where she served as the firm’s director of corporate/transactional training and chair of its corporate training committee. Prior to becoming executive director of the center, Newman served as of counsel at Bryan Cave LLP. 

Established in 2007, Emory Law’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice focuses on the business and legal aspects of transactional law and skills. Newman has taught the program’s Deal Skills course since the program’s inception.

While at Powell Goldstein, she developed transactional skills simulation programs and corporate training seminars for associates. In her practice, she focused on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate compliance and general corporate and business law. Her mergers and acquisition practice included negotiated business acquisitions and financing for both public and privately owned companies in a variety of industries.

Newman serves as co-chair of the Business Law Education Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. She is an adjunct professor of practice at Washington and Lee University School of Law, where she teaches in the transactional skills immersion program and serves on the Third Year Advisory Board.

Before beginning her legal career, Newman earned a PhD at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill.  Her undergraduate teaching experience includes three years at Bridgewater College and a year at Sweet Briar College. Newman also completed an administrative internship, sponsored by the Carnegie Corp., in academic administration for women in higher education at Skidmore College.

Past president of the  Atlanta Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG-Atlanta), Newman serves on the board of the Board of Directors Network and is a former board member of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation and The Women’s Finance Exchange.

Education:  JD, Duke University School of Law, 1985; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981; AB, Sweet Briar College, 1971.