Albany Law School Welcomes New Full Time Faculty for Fall 2025
The Albany Law School community is excited to welcome four new full-time faculty members for the upcoming academic year.
Professor Meredith R. Miller, Professor of Law
Professor Meredith R. Miller joins the Albany Law School faculty from the Touro University, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.
Professor Miller teaches, writes and practices in the areas of business, employment and contract law. She started her teaching career as an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Fellow and Lecturer at Temple University School of Law, and then taught for nearly two decades at Touro.
Professor Miller’s writing focuses on contract doctrine and theory, employment law and closely-held business law. Her scholarship includes articles in the Missouri Law Review, Tennessee Law Review, Indiana Law Review, Villanova Law Review, UKMC Law Review and Cornell Real Estate Review. Professor Miller’s articles have helped shape the path of the law and have been cited in leading Contracts casebooks, as well as by several courts, including the Maryland Supreme Court and the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Prior to teaching, Professor Miller was a law clerk to the New York Court of Appeals. She also worked as an associate at Proskauer Rose LLP, where she litigated commercial and pro bono matters.
Professor Miller passionately believes that her knowledge should extend beyond the classroom and her teaching aims to reflect the realities of law as it is actually practiced. In addition to her work as a law professor, Professor Miller continues to consult and co-counsel with other attorneys on complex litigation, arbitrations, and appeals in corporate, commercial and employment matters. She also provides transactional representation to employees, freelancers and emerging and established businesses. Additionally, she is trained as a commercial and employment law mediator and a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitrator.
Professor Miller has also witnessed firsthand the power of bar associations to lift the profession and the communities they serve. She is a past president of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York (LGBT Bar NY), where she was on the board for a decade. In 2024, the LGBT Bar NY recognized Professor Miller’s service with a Community Excellence Award. She is also a past president of the Network of Bar Leaders, where she continues to be involved as a member of its Leadership Advisory Council. She serves on the Lawyer’s Division of the Board of Directors of the Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert (JALBCA).
Professor Miller has dedicated significant efforts to ensuring a diverse and qualified judiciary in New York, and has been appointed the administrator of judicial screening panels for Civil and Supreme Court in Manhattan. In addition, by appointment of the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, she is a member of the Richard C. Failla LGBTQ Commission of the New York State Courts.
Professor Miller received a B.A., cum laude, from Union College, where she pursued an interdisciplinary major in English and Studio Fine Art and was recognized with the Josephine Daggett Prize, the college’s highest non-academic honor. She received her J.D., cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School, where she was an Executive Articles and Research Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review, an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Fellow and a Richardson Merit Scholar. She earned an LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple University Law School.
Professor Randle B. Pollard, Assistant Professor of Law
Assistant Professor of Law Randle B. Pollard joins Albany Law School from the Washington and Lee School of Law.
His teaching experience includes courses in Business Associations Law, Corporate Income Tax, Federal Income Taxation of Individuals, State and Local Taxation, and Tax Planning & Representation of Non-Profit Organizations Practicum. He is the principal of the law offices of Randle B. Pollard in Washington, D.C.
In his practice, Professor Pollard specializes in non-profit and for-profit entity formation, corporate governance, and federal and state tax compliance. He has over twenty years of tax law experience as in-house counsel and from prior positions within government, public accounting, and academia.
In his academic career, Professor Pollard has served as an adjunct professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law, as well as an assistant professor of business law and taxation at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. From 2012 to 2016, he taught Introduction to Federal Income Taxation and State and Local Tax in the Master of Science in Accounting and Master of Science in Taxation programs. He also taught from 2009 to 2012 as an Associate Professor of Law at Widener University Commonwealth School of Law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. At Widener, he taught Business Organizations Law, Comparative Corporate Law (in Sydney, Australia), Corporate Income Tax, Federal Taxation of Individuals, and State and Local Tax.
Prior to a career in academia, Professor Pollard was senior counsel at the law office of Ice Miller in Indianapolis. Subsequently, in Indianapolis, he served as Domestic Tax Counsel for Eli Lilly and Company and as Senior Counsel at the law firm Ice Miller LLP.
Professor Pollard is a regular panelist and presenter at national conferences and meetings, including those associated with the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, the National Bar Association, and the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. His scholarship focuses on municipal bonds, state and local tax policy, and state and local tax incentives.
Professor Pollard is a graduate of Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, where he earned a B.S. in Accounting, High Honors. Professor Pollard earned Juris Doctor and LL.M. degrees from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where he was Business Editor for the Journal of Law and Technology.
Professor Lauren DesRosiers, Assistant Professor of Law
Assistant Professor of Law Lauren DesRosiers first joined the law school in 2021 as the Immigration Law Clinic (ILC)’s staff attorney and has since taken on various roles, including Visiting Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic.
Before coming to Albany, Professor DesRosiers spent several years with the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) representing queer and trans survivors of violence in immigration matters and related civil proceedings, first as an Equal Justice Works Fellow and later as a Senior Staff Attorney.
She was a visiting professor and Judith S. Kaye Teaching Fellow with the Historical Society of the New York Courts and Bard Early Colleges, where she developed and taught an undergraduate course that explored New York State’s place in the historical development of U.S. immigration law and policy.
Professor DesRosiers began her legal career as a litigation associate at a large law firm in New York City, where she represented clients in civil matters in state and federal courts while maintaining an active immigration pro bono docket.
Professor DesRosiers received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and B.A. from Bard College at Simon’s Rock.
Professor Michael C. Wetmore ’14, Assistant Professor of Law
Assistant Professor of Law Michael C. Wetmore first joined Albany Law School in August 2022 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He teaches Introduction to Lawyering to first-year students and has previously taught courses in Evidence, Criminal Law, Criminal Trial Practice, Civil Trial Practice, and Client Interviewing and Counseling.
Prior to joining Albany Law School, Professor Wetmore served as an Assistant District Attorney with the Albany County District Attorney’s Office, where he worked as both a trial and appellate prosecutor. In that role, he handled a wide range of cases, including homicides, violent crimes, and appeals. He tried more than twenty felony cases to verdict, filed hundreds of appellate briefs and memoranda, and appeared before local and state trial courts, intermediate appellate courts, and the New York Court of Appeals.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Professor Wetmore regularly lectures at continuing legal education (CLE) programs and professional trainings hosted by the New York State Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the New York Prosecutors Training Institute. He also provides legal commentary for local media outlets.
A 2014 graduate of Albany Law School, Professor Wetmore was an active competitor in the Anthony V. Cardona ’70 Moot Court Program. He is a former winner of both the Donna Jo Morse Negotiations Competition and Client Counseling Competition. Today, he continues to support the moot court program as Faculty Advisor to the Karen C. McGovern Senior Prize Trials Competition and the Domenick L. Gabrielli Appellate Advocacy Competition, and coaches Albany Law School’s trial travel teams.
