Heidi K. Brown, J.D., MAPP
Professor Heidi K. Brown is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Associate Dean for Upper Level Writing at New York Law School, and a former litigator in the construction industry.
Heidi is the author of a three-volume legal writing book series entitled The Mindful Legal Writer. She also has written and published three books about well-being and performance for law students and lawyers: The Introverted Lawyer, Untangling Fear in Lawyering, and The Flourishing Lawyer: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Performance and Well-Being.
In 2021, Heidi earned a master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the 2023 Award Recipient for “outstanding contributions to well-being in legal education” from the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Balance and Well-Being in Legal Education, and was selected as a 2023-2024 SCRIBES Fellow by the American Society of Legal Writers.
Building on a foundation of thirty years of experience in legal practice and academia, Heidi champions the importance of openly discussing stressors, anxieties, and fears in lawyering, and helping anxious law students and lawyers tap into individual strengths to become profoundly effective advocates—in their authentic voices.
Since Spring 2023, Heidi has been designing and teaching workshops and courses to introduce law students, law professors, and lawyers to GenAI tools in the context of legal research and analysis—endeavoring to demystify this exciting new technology for legal writers.
Heidi is an internationally-recognized public speaker on issues of lawyer identity, writer identity, introversion, fear management, public speaking anxiety, peak performance, and flourishing. She is also a novice boxer.