Julie Mayoral is a Legal Writing Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law, where she teaches legal research and writing.

She brings to the classroom a rare breadth of practice experience — spanning trial and appellate work, and civil and criminal matters — that grounds her teaching in the full range of contexts students will meet as lawyers. As an appellate attorney, she has drafted briefs and memoranda and argued appeals in complex civil cases. As a civil litigator, she has carried matters from the pleadings through trial and appeal, preparing and arguing dispositive motions along the way. And as a former assistant public defender, she tried criminal cases to verdict and litigated substantive pretrial motions, defending hundreds of felony and misdemeanor cases.

That breadth is what lets her offer students a well-rounded foundation. Because she has researched, written, and argued across so many settings, she can show students that legal writing is not an abstract exercise but the connective tissue of practice, and prepare them to write and advocate confidently across trial and appellate work in whatever matters their careers bring.

Professor Mayoral has also taught legal skills and writing as an adjunct professor and teaching assistant in South Florida, and has coached student advocates in national moot court competition.

She earned her J.D. from Florida International University and her B.S. in psychology from the University of Central Florida, and she is a member of The Florida Bar.