Associate Professor of Law
Education
- J.D., University of Akron School of Law
- M.Ed., Lynchburg College
- B.A., Ohio University
Areas of Interest/Teaching
Lawyering Skills V, Torts, and Advanced Trial Advocacy
Experience
- Liberty University School of Law
- Member of the American Bar Association
- Admitted to practice in the State of Ohio
- Worked as an associate attorney for a large personal injury firm in Cleveland, Ohio
Biography
Prof. Grant Rost is a former plaintiff’s personal injury attorney who represented clients all over the state of Ohio while working for a large personal injury firm. As a former personal injury attorney, Prof. Rost teaches Torts as well as Basic and Advanced Trial Advocacy classes. He is one of a handful of moot court coaches for Liberty’s nationally ranked moot court teams. After competing as an advocate on the University of Akron School of Law’s nationally ranked trial team, Prof. Rost also coached mock trial teams at the high school, collegiate, and law school levels. In 2017, he was honored by the student body as the recipient of the Roger C. Bern Award for Faculty Excellence and received the Liberty Legacy award in 2024 for distinction in faculty service. In his free time, Prof. Rost is an avid outdoorsman and a professional photographer. He uses his certifications as a swimming stroke and turn official and as a level 1 venomous snake handler to serve his community as a YMCA swim meet official and as a snake relocator.
To supplement his legal education and advance his skill as a teacher and trainer, Prof. Rost earned a Master of Education from Lynchburg College in 2015. He has served as an adjunct professor of law for Stetson College of Law’s LL.M. in Advocacy program and is a yearly lecturer for the Temple University Beasley School of Law’s Advocacy LL.M. program. He has presented at numerous training conferences for lawyers and law professors at Stetson College of Law, American University’s Washington College of Law, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Nova Southeastern Shepard Broad College of Law, Samford University’s Cumberland College of Law, University of Puerto Rico School of Law, the Roanoke Inns of Court, and Fordham School of Law. Along with nationally recognized Evidence professor Jules Epstein, Prof. Rost is co-author of the monthly Brain Lessons blog published by Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Prof. Rost’s areas of research and writing focus on cognitive biases, heuristics, and courtroom persuasion. He is the author of Campfires, Car Accidents, and the Cosmos: Persuasive Appeals to Jurors Through the Human Appetite for Wonder. 4 Stetson J. Advoc. & L. 54 (2017)