Vanessa Beary

Vanessa Beary oversees career development initiatives in the Tulane Law community. She cultivates and strengthens relationships with employers and alums and counsels Tulane law students on professional development issues with a focus on judicial clerkships and careers within the sports law industry. She has substantial private practice experience with major law firms in California and New Orleans, where she practiced appellate and trial court litigation on a range of complex business issues, including employment discrimination and compensation matters and insurance coverage disputes.  Additionally, she has five years of experience as faculty and staff at UC College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), where she served both as a professor in the legal writing and moot court programs and as Associate Director for LLM Advising.

A native of New Orleans, Dean Beary earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from Tulane and her J.D. from UC Hastings.  During law school, she studied international and comparative law in the Netherlands and served as a judicial extern for the Hon. Martin Jenkins in the Northern District of California. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the New Orleans chapter of the Federal Bar Association and also teaches Legal Research and Writing at Tulane.

Dean Beary loves baking, running, and rooting for the New Orleans Saints.