University of Mississippi Law student Terrence Hunte interns with NAACP legal defense fund
OLE MISS LAW — Terrence Hunter’s goal is to help disadvantaged African Americans and their communities. His passion for civil rights was the driving force behind his decision to attend law school.
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY MCKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW — IU McKinney Law presents this history of its first African-American female graduate, Harriette Vesta Bailey Conn, ’55. Conn had a storied career as an attorney in the state government of Indiana. On May 1, 1970, Conn was appointed State Public Defender by the Supreme Court of Indiana, a…
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY MCKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW — IU McKinney Law alumnus Mauricio Videla, ’12, was chosen by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession to take part in the 2018 Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy. The event will take place June 24-26 at the law firm of Greenburg Traurig in Miami.
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HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY DEANE SCHOOL OF LAW — The New York City Bar Association announced that Hofstra Law alumna Deborah Martin Owens ’04 has joined the organization as Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusion. Owens came to the City Bar from the New York office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, where she focused on complex commercial litigation.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — Harvard Law alumna Ethel Branch ’08 was honored this year by the law school’s Women’s Law Association. As the attorney general of the Navajo Nation, Branch oversees a staff of 88, handling all the legal affairs of the sprawling Nation, which extends into Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — When Harvard Law student Heather Artinian ’18 walks on stage to receive her law degree later this month, it will be the culmination of 18 years working toward the goal of becoming a lawyer. Artinian is also deaf, and uses this motivation to speak up when she sees injustice.
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — Georgia Law alumna and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (J.D. ’94) was honored by the Ronald J. Freeman Chapter of the National Black Law Students Association. Bottoms discussed the value of her law degree and legal training when she joined the Atlanta City Council.
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FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Fordham Law alumna Márquez Morales ’02 currently serves as East Coast diversity director at Sidley Austin LLP, where she promotes the firm’s diversity and inclusion efforts through the recruitment, retention, and training of women and diverse lawyers.
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FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Nearly two decades of varied career experiences as a federal prosecutor, private practice litigator, and judicial law clerk prepared the Hon. Lauren Louis ’00, for nearly everything she has encountered as a magistrate judge with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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DRAKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — President Donald Trump announced the appointment of Drake Law alumnus Johnny Taylor Jr. ’92 as chairman of the President’s Board of Advisers on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resources Management.
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