Biography

Hollee Temple is an experienced professional writer and legal writing professor with credits across multiple genres of storytelling. The co-author of Good Enough Is the New Perfect (Harlequin Nonfiction, 2011, HarperCollins 2021 anniversary edition), Hollee spent several years writing a work/life balance column for the American Bar Association Journal and talking work/life balance at speaking engagements across the country. Hollee has worked in teaching and administrative positions in academia since 2003, and published the first edition of her legal research textbook in 2013. 

Hollee holds an online teaching certification from Quality Matters and is a proponent of online legal education. She has taught online for law schools and master of legal studies programs. She spearheaded multiple strategic initiatives at West Virginia University College of Law, where she served as the Director of Special Projects and taught legal writing and legal research classes between 2003-2024. 

Hollee is also a screenwriter, and has multiple projects in various stages of development, including several adaptations of nonfiction books written by her husband, John. Hollee and John have co-written multiple screenplays and produced a staged concert of their first musical, Star Machine, written with their two sons, at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music in April 2024.

Publications

• Good Enough is the New Perfect: Ditch the Worry and Love the Mom You Already Are, with Becky Beaupre Gillespie (HarperCollins, May 2021 updated 10th anniversary reissue).
• They’re Not All Racist Nutjobs — and 4 Other Observations about the Patriot Militia Movement, by Hollee and John Temple, The Conversation, October 23, 2019.
• West Virginia Legal Research, Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press (2018).
• West Virginia Legal Research (Carolina Academic Press 2014).
• Attorney as Healer Business of Law, 99 A.B.A. J. 26 (2013).
• Harmonic Practice Business of Law, 99 A.B.A. J. 28 (2013).
• Fading Past: Are Digitization and Budget Cuts Compromising History?, 99 A.B.A. J. 36 (2013).
• Treasures 2.0 Business of Law, 99 A.B.A. J. 29 (2013).
• No Bar to New Careers Business of Law, 99 A.B.A. J. 28 (2013).
• Short Term, Big Benefit: Secondments Grow as a Better-Life Option, 99 ABA Journal 27 (2013).
• Clogged Pipeline: Lack of Growth at Firms Has Women Skipping Law School, 98 A.B.A. J 29 (2012).
• Time out: Sabbaticals Help Lawyers Reassess, Redirect Careers, 98 ABA Journal 27 (2012).
• Speaking up: Helping Law Students Break through the Silence of Depression, 98 ABA Journal 23 (2012).
• Mission Accomplished: Military Spouse Network Gets ABA, White House Attention, 98 ABA Journal 1 (2012).
• Hunting Happy: In Grim Times, a Search for Joy in Law Practice Gains Ground, 97 A.B.A. J. 41 (2011), with Becky Beaupre Gillespie.
• Good Enough is the New Perfect: Why Modern Moms Are Aiming Lower – Yet Reaching New Heights, with Becky Beaupre Gillespie (Harlequin Nonfiction, April 2011 nationwide release).
• WINE TIME: A Firm Finds Common Interests on the Vine, 97 ABA Journal 30 (2011), with Becky Beaupre Gillespie.
• Seeking The ‘New Perfect’: Survey of Female Lawyers Highlights Their Struggles and Skill, 97 ABA Journal 29 (2011), with Becky Beaupre Gillespie.
• Not Man’s Work? A Lawsuit Claims’ Macho’culture Led to Associate Dad’s Firing, 97 ABA Journal 28 (2011), with Becky Beaupre Gillespie.
• The Track Back: Firms’ Re-Entry Programs Open Doors, 97 ABA Journal 26 (2011), with Becky Beaupre Gillespie.
• WORK-LIFE BALANCE: MAKING THE HOME WORK: It Takes More than Space to Find Home Office Success, 96 ABA Journal 30 (2010), with Becky Beaupre Gillespie.
• WORK-LIFE BALANCE: VIRTUAL ESCAPE: Lawyers Wrestle with 24/7 Technology, 96 ABA Journal 27 (2010), with Becky Beaupre Gillespie.
• National Work/Life Balance Columnist,  ABA Journal (bimonthly, starting February 2009 issue), with Becky Beaupre Gillespie.
• Contributing Editor, A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO APPELLATE ADVOCACY (American Bar Association publication 2009).
• WORK-LIFE BALANCE: MOM MAKES IT WORK: Her Search for Balance Now Helps Others, 95 ABA Journal 32 (2009), with Becky Beaupre Gillespie.
• Taking Charge of Work and Life, 95 ABA Journal 31 (2009).
• Want a Life? Get More Clients, 95 ABA Journal 29 (2009), with Becky Beaupre Gillespie.
• WORK-LIFE BALANCE: SICK CALL: Prepare Ahead for Days When Kids Fall Ill, 95 ABA Journal 25 (2009), with Becky Beaupre Gillespie.
• Did Your Legal Writing Professor Go to Harvard?: Credentials of Legal Writing Faculty at Hiring Time, with Susan Liemer, 46 Louisville L.J. 383 (2008-2009).
• Did Your Legal Writing Professor Go to Harvard: The Credentials of Legal Writing Faculty at Hiring Time, 46 U. Louisville L. Rev. 383 (2007), with Susan P. Liemer.
• Tripped up by Electronic Plagiarism, 14 No. 2 Persp. Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 114 (Winter 2006).
• Using Formulas to Help Students Master the “R” and “A” of IRAC, 14 No. 3 Persp. Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 129 (Spring 2006).
• Here’s the Scoop for the Law Profs: Teach Your Student to Think Like a Journalist, Volume 81, University of Detroit Mercy Law Review (Spring 2004).
• Raining on the Litigation Parade: Is it Time to Stop Litigant Abuse of the Fraud on the Court Doctrine?, 39 U. San Fran. L. Rev. * (Aug. 2005).
• A Telling Last Class, 20 The Second Draft (Fall 2005 publication expected).
• Raining on the Litigation Parade: Is It Time to Stop Litigant Abuse of the Fraud on the Court Doctrine, 39 U.S.F. L. Rev. 967 (2004).
• Here’s a Scoop for the Law Profs: Teach Your Students to Think like a Journalist, 81 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 175 (2003).
• 50-State Survey: Media Privacy& Related Law. Pennsylvania Chapter. Libel Defense Resource Center (2002-2003) (Co-author).
• Free Speech, Protecting Children: Tough Choices and the Children’s Internet Protection Act , American Bar Association Media Law and Defamation Torts Committee Newsletter (Summer 2002).
• Pennsylvanians Shouldn’t Expect Privacy on the Telephone: State Supreme Court Says Government Can Tape Without Neutral Tribunal’s OK, Libel Defense Resource Center LibelLetter (September 2001) (with David G. Klaber) (republished in K&L Media Law Alert, October 2001).
• 50-State Survey: Media Privacy & Related Law, Pennsylvania Chapter. Libel Defense Resource Center (2001-2002) (Co-author).