About Suzanna
Suzanna Moran has built a career that moves between classrooms and courtrooms. She combines classroom experience, an advanced degree in natural-resources management, and decades of bar membership across three states. Her path shows a steady progression from student instructor to law professor and practicing lawyer.
She earned a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. She stayed in Michigan for graduate work and in 1992 received both an M.S. from the University of Michigan Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Natural Resources Management and Policy and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Early in law school she served as a teaching assistant in legal research and writing, work that presaged later teaching roles.
After law school Moran gained experience in private practice. She joined Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP as an associate in 1997 and moved to Fognani & Faught, LLP as an associate in 1999. Those years in firm practice gave her exposure to litigation and client counseling in multiple settings. She was admitted to the Texas bar in 1993, joined the Colorado bar in 1998 and added New York bar membership in 2023.
In 2007 she took on a formal academic appointment as Professor of the Practice of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. That position aligned with her long-standing interest in legal writing. She has been involved with the Legal Writing Institute since 2007 and has held membership in the Association of American Law Schools since 2010. Her work in legal education has emphasized the craft of clear appellate and trial writing and the methods of teaching those skills to law students.
More recently Moran has combined academic work with practice. She is listed as a lawyer at Leventhal Lewis PC while maintaining ties to the University of Denver. Her background in law and in natural-resources management gives her a framework for addressing regulatory and policy questions that come up in both teaching and practice.
Colleagues describe her career as steady and carefully built, with deliberate moves between the bench of the academy and the realities of firm work. She remains an active member of the Texas, Colorado and New York bars and continues to teach and practice. She currently practices law at Leventhal Lewis PC and concentrates on legal writing, litigation support and matters that intersect with natural-resources policy.
