DEBORAH B. WALSH is chair of the paralegal studies department at Middlesex Community College with campuses in Lowell and Bedford. She is a graduate of UMass-Lowell, where she majored in music education. She then taught high school music in Ayer, MA for six years before she realized that she would rather be Perry Mason than Perry ComoMitch Miller, and she enrolled at Suffolk University Law School. After graduation from law school, she taught in the legal practice skills program at Suffolk Law from 1980–1982. After leaving Suffolk Law School, she worked as in-house counsel for ComFed Savings Bank and taught legal research and writing and paralegal ethics as an adjunct in Bentley College’s evening paralegal program. When Bentley discontinued its paralegal program, she took her obsession for teaching to Middlesex, where she has been ever since.  Prof. Walsh ishas been a member of the Distance Education Committee for the American Association for Paralegal Education. She is a frequent presenter at numerous legal and educational conferences, and a regular contributor to the AAfPE Bytes column in The Paralegal Educator.  In 2007 sherecently received the NISOD 2007 Award for Excellence in Teaching.