11/17/2025
Please join us for our next CCBA meeting on November 20, 2025. We welcome Professor Traynor and Interim Dean Meyers to speak to us about updates at the law school.
📅 Date: November 20, 2025
⏰ Time: 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Avalon Event Center, Sheyenne Ballroom
Pre-register by Tuesday, November 18th at noon.
RSVP to [email protected]
Bios:
Bradley Myers is the Interim Dean and the Randy H. Lee Professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law. He became a Fellow of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel in 2017. Governor Hoeven named him one of North Dakota’s Commissioners to the Uniform Law Commission in 2007 and he has served on several drafting committees for Uniform Acts in the Trusts & Estates area. Professor Myers joined the faculty at the University of North Dakota in 2001 and teaches courses in the Trusts & Estates area. Professor Myers formerly practiced law in the states of Nevada, California and Oregon, with his practice focused primarily in tax, business and estate planning with a special focus on the issues surrounding the development of low-income housing. Professor Myers received BS and MS degrees in Kinesiology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He then spent two years at the University of California, Davis, doing post-graduate research in avian respiratory control. Professor Myers received his J.D. from the University of Oregon. He served on the editorial staff of the Oregon Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Professor Myers continued his training at New York University, earning an LL.M. in Taxation.
Paul E. Traynor is a native of Devils Lake, ND and a 1988 graduate (JD) of the University of North Dakota School of Law and a 2002 graduate (LLM) of the University of Connecticut School of Law. Professor Traynor spent most of his professional career as in house counsel for insurance companies including State Farm Ins. Co., (Minneapolis) Nodak Ins. Co. (Fargo) Horace Mann Companies (Springfield, IL), Kemper Cos. (Chicago) and Coverys (Boston). In 2018 Professor Traynor moved back to North Dakota and was hired as a special appointment faculty member by the UND School of Law. He joined the tenure track
faculty in 2024 where he teaches Business Associations I and II, Insurance Law, Health Law and Advanced Torts. In January of 2025, he restarted the UND School of Law Business & Non-Profit Law Clinic to provide experiential learning opportunities for UND Law Students. His academic publications include articles in the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal, and in Spring 2026 the University of
Oklahoma College of Law’s Oil & Gas, Energy and Environmental Law Journal. In January of 2025, Professor Traynor published the Third Edition of West Publishing’s Insurance Law And Practice, Cases, Materials And Exercises (Third Edition), a casebook used by law schools across the United States. In his spare time he is a cellist with the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra and serves on the Board of Directors of the Grand Forks Public Library and Grand Forks Public Schools Foundation. He also serves on the UND Budget Committee and the UND Inter-Collegiate Athletics Committee.
