Judge William Bauer and Judge Pat Spratt guest lecturing for Ted Donner's class in jury selection at Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Classes at Loyola University Chicago

Ted Donner is an Adjunct Professor with Loyola University Chicago School of Law where he has instructed an array of courses since the summer of 1990, when he first joined the faculty a week after graduating to teach a course in Litigation Thinking Schools with Professor John ("Jack") Cooley. Since then, he has taught courses for Loyola in:

• Litigation Thinking Skills (with Prof. John W. Cooley)
• Appellate Advocacy (with Prof. John W. Cooley and Prof. Mike Siegel)
  
• Pre-Trial Litigation
• Client Counseling (with Dean Jean Gaspardo)
  
• Legal Negotiations (with Dean Jean Gaspardo)
  
• The Preparation and Trial of an Antitrust Case (with Prof. Granvil Specks)
• Advanced Trial Practice (assisting Prof. William Elward)
  
• The Law of Jury Selection
  

Ted also served for many years as the coach for Loyola's moot court team in the annual Chicago Bar Association moot court competition and as a coach for the school's team in the annual ABA Negotiation competition. He was recognized by the school's Moot Court Board at the second dinner after the group's founding, in 1999, with was later known as the law school's "Coach of the Year" award.

Seminars Presented by Ted A. Donner

• Insurance Coverage Law in Illinois, National Business Institute (2002 )
• Insurance Coverage Law in Illinois, National Business Institute (2003)
• Bad Faith Litigation, National Business Institute (2004)
• Bad Faith Litigation, National Business Institute (2005)
• The Law of Jury Selection, American Society of Trial Consultants (May 2005)
• Plain English Jury Instructions, American Society of Trial Consultants (May 2005) (Panel)
  
• Insurance Coverage Litigation, National Business Institute  (2006)
• Behind the Scenes: The Law of Jury Selection, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (August 2006)
• Insurance Coverage Litigation, National Business Institute  (2008)
• Bad Faith Insurance Claims in Illinois, National Business Institute  (June 2008)
• Jury Success Strategies, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (October 2008)
  
• Litigating Insurance Coverage Claims: From Start to Finish, National Business Institute  (May 2010)
• Inside and Outside the Jury Box, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (October 2010)
• Surviving Your First Jury Trial: Criminal Trial Focus, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (May 2012)
  
• Insurance Coverage Litigation, National Business Institute  (2013)
• Insurance Coverage Issues in Personal Injury and Other Multiparty Tort Actions, National Business Institute  (2013)
• Inside and Outside the Jury Box: Effective Trial Strategies, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (May 2014)
  
• The Art of Jury Selection (with Hon. Ron Sutter), DuPage County Bar Association (December 2014)
• The Law of Jury Selection, Office of the Illinois Attorney General (July 2014)
  
• Handling the Bench Trial, National Business Institute  (2015)
• How to Train Your Mediator: Using Intermediaries to Reframe Negotiations, DuPage County Bar Association (May 2015)
  
• Making the Implicit Explicit, Uncovering Bias in the Courtroom (with Ruta Stropus), Office of the Illinois Attorney General (October 2015)
• The Law of Jury Selection, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Chicago (July 2017)
• The Law of Jury Selection, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Springfield (December 2017)
  
• Implicit Bias in the Courtroom, DuPage County Bar Association (May 2018)
  
• Jury Selection at the 505 (with Hon. Ron Sutter), DuPage County Bar Association (September 2018)
  
• Advanced Business Contracts, National Business Institute  (June 2019)
  
• The Law of Jury Selection, Office of the Illinois Attorney General (September 2019)
  
• Best Practices for Marijuana Product Packing and Testing , National Business Institute (November 2019)
  
• Legal Ethics Regarding Recreational Marijuana in Illinois , National Business Institute (February 2020)
• Jury Selection in Criminal Cases, Will County Bar Association (May 2020) 
• Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court Eviction Mediation Training, Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court/DuPage County Bar Association (September 2021)
• Law of Jury Selection, DuPage County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (December, 2021)
• Implicit Bias, Illinois Workers Compensation Commission (April 2022)
• Oral Argument and Improvisation, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Moot Court Honors Board (October 2022)
• Jury Selection in the 505 (Post-Pandemic Edition) (with Hon. Ron Sutter), DuPage County Bar Association (December 2022)
• Real Estate Foreclosure in Illinois, National Business Institute (May 2023)