Spotlights
- Lily Arbab Camet '95
- Linda M. Correia '91
- Ronald L. Early '68
- Karen M. Lockwood '78
- Kenneth Lore '73
- Cheryl L. Williams '99
Alumni Spotlight
LILY ARBAB CAMET '95
Lily Arbab Camet '95 is a Practitioner-in-Residence with the Criminal Justice Clinic at the American University Washington College of Law (WCL). In the Criminal Justice Clinic, Ms. Camet teaches students about the lawyering process and supervises their representation of indigent clients before Maryland courts. Prior to joining the clinical faculty, she was a member of the Adjunct Faculty at WCL, where she supervised students in a fieldwork course involving the investigation of factual innocence claims raised by indigent prisoners through The Innocence Project of the National Capital Region. In this course, she taught post-conviction case investigation strategy, and assisted students in developing viable exoneration theories for individuals who had been wrongfully convicted of crimes. The investigative work included the location of physical evidence, interviewing witnesses, arranging forensic testing and preparing motions on behalf of prisoners. Last year, along with Professor Binny Miller of WCL, Ms. Camet organized a Founders' Celebration Panel featuring Marvin L. Anderson, the 99th person in the United States to be exonerated by post-conviction DNA testing.
Prior to joining WCL, Ms. Camet worked as an associate with the litigation practice group of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, in the firm's Washington, DC office. Her work included the defense of witnesses in congressional investigations, as well as in matters before independent counsel and the Department of Justice regarding allegations of election law violations, campaign finance improprieties, obstruction of justice and perjury. Ms. Camet handled matters that required concurrent representation in the civil, criminal and political arenas, including the representation of a White House Deputy Chief of Staff and an executive of a national political party. In addition to civil litigation before state and federal courts, she also represented clients subject to enforcement actions by government agencies, including the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Housing and Urban Development and state attorneys general. Ms. Camet also handled a number of pro bono cases involving adoption, child custody and criminal domestic disputes.
Before joining the firm, Ms. Camet served as a law clerk to The Honorable Pasco M. Bowman, II, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from WCL, receiving The Mooers Trophy and The Dean's Awards for Professional Responsibility. While at WCL, she served as a Note and Comment Editor of The American University Law Review, participated as a Dean's Fellow in the Legal Methods Program, worked as a Research Assistant to Professor Burton Wechsler, and participated in the Criminal Justice Clinic.
Ms. Camet's undergraduate degree is from Georgetown University where she graduated cum laude and majored in American Government and History. She was an Academic-All-American and captain of the Women's Varsity Field Hockey Team. Ms. Camet was born in New York, New York and raised in Mission Hills, Kansas.
Ms. Camet is actively involved in the WCL community. She is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council and assisted in WCL's 2002 American Bar Association Accreditation Review & Faculty Self-Study. She is a member of WCL's G.O.L.D. committee and the John Sherman Myers Society. She served as a judge in the Alvina Reckman-Myers First-Year Moot Court Competition and counsels students with regard to legal employment and judicial clerkship opportunities. She also serves on the Student Groups Committee of The Innocence Project of the National Capitol Region. In addition to her involvement with the law school, Ms. Camet is a member of the American Bar Association, the Association of American Law Schools, and a past member of The Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court. She is a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland bars and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the federal district courts for the District of Columbia and Maryland.
Ms. Camet resides in Maryland with her husband, Gregory W. Camet, who is Assistant General Counsel to Entergy Corporation, and a 1996 graduate of WCL.
