Alan J. Couture

Full-time legal practice, mainly representing plaintiffs in personal injury litigation; also providing estate planning services and court-approved mediation services throughout northern Michigan; and developing AI and other marketing media.

Full-time legal practice, mainly insurance defense and other civil litigation; and providing mediation services as a court-approved mediator.

• Wrote, developed and revised curricula and lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning in the MBA and MAOM programs.
• Graded quizzes, tests, forum discussions, and projects to provide students with timely academic progress information and feedback.
• Encouraged class discussions by building discussions into lessons, actively soliciting input, asking open-ended questions and employing the Socratic method.
• Managed student performance using automated reporting systems and provided detailed feedback.
• Taught both in-class and online courses (one of the first instructors to teach online courses for Spring Arbor University)

Began as an associate attorney, then became a partner, mainly handling insurance defense cases and counseling clients in a wide variety of civil matters.

Full-time active trial practice in insurance defense litigation for a mid-size Texas law firm that had offices in three cities.

Assisted six appellate judges with a wide variety of civil and criminal cases; research and writing of numerous legal memos; and supervision of newer attorneys.