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Along with business communication, Gina L. Genova, Esq. specializes in legal writing and public speaking after a 22-year business litigation career in Southern California. In the Professional Writing Minor Business Communication series, she teaches the winter capstone course on client communication (WRIT 157A) as well as the spring internship course (WRIT 150) and the elective, Advanced Writing for Public Speaking (WRIT 162). She continues to teach Writing for Public Speaking (WRIT 105PS), Business and Administrative Writing (WRIT 107B), Legal Writing (WRIT 107L) and two First Year Exploration seminars on Legal Practice (INT94 UA) and Law Enforcement (INT94 TF). Gina loves working with students and served as faculty advisor for Mock Trial, Moot Court, Pre-law Society, and its Undergraduate Law Journal for many years through spring of 2026. Her research interests range from the function and process of collaborative work in business spaces to the intersection, interference, and imposition of laws on the workplace environment.
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Gina is a senior continuing lecturer and has been with the UCSB Writing Program since 2000. She holds a BA in English from UCLA and a Juris Doctorate from Pacific McGeorge School of Law. She was admitted to the California and Federal Bars in 1992 and practiced law until her retirement in 2015. She has published a multitude of supplemental materials for a variety of Pearson's best-selling textbooks on Business Communication and Business law. Since 2021, Gina has been the senior Co-Director of the Business Communication track in the Professional Writing Minor and enjoys mentoring students towards fulfilling careers outside of UCSB. She is a member of the UC Public Speaking Initiative and a regular presenter at the Association for Business Communication's conferences, serving as an active member of its Business Practices Committee for two decades.