Harvard Law alumna reflects on personal experience with religious discrimination
HARVARD LAW TODAY – Raheemah Abdulaleem ’01 is associate general counsel in the Executive Office of the President’s Office of Administration. She was one of several Muslim White House staffers who detailed their personal experiences with discrimination on the occasion of the first visit of President Barack Obama ’91 to a U.S. mosque.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY – Derek Manners ’16 is the winner of the Outstanding Clinical Student Award from the Clinical Legal Education Association. Over the course of his three years at Harvard Law, Manners excelled as a clinical law student and logged more than a thousand pro bono hours in service to the community.
Read More about Harvard Law student wins 2016 CLEA Outstanding Clinical Student AwardTwo Georgia State Law alumnae join first inaugural class of new incubator program
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Two alumnae, Candace Sneed ’13 and Alicia D. Mack ’13, are part of the inaugural class of the Lawyers for Equal Justice (L4EJ), a new incubator program directed by Stephanie Everett ’02 to help attorneys start innovative, socially conscious law practices providing services to low- and moderate-income clients.
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Georgia State Law student Brad Czerwonky ’18 and alumnus Kean DeCarlo ’97, a patent attorney at Taylor English Duma LLP, help a client through the Georgia Lawyers for the Arts Georgia PATENTS program, which connects solo inventors, nonprofits and small businesses with limited financial resources with patent agents and attorneys.
Read More about Georgia State Law alumnus and student offer pro bono assistance to inventorGeorge Washington Law alumnus wins affirmative action case before U.S. Supreme Court
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Gregory Garre ’91, partner at Latham & Watkins LLP, served as counsel of record on behalf of the University of Texas at Austin. In a 4-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the university’s race-conscious admissions program.
Read More about George Washington Law alumnus wins affirmative action case before U.S. Supreme CourtFordham Law alumnus wins high-profile case involving HIV drug scam
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Lead prosecutor and lead counsel Adam Shlahet ’02 won a high-profile case involving a massive black market HIV drug scam led by pharmacist Ira Gross and his shell company, Chaparral Services, Ltd.
Read More about Fordham Law alumnus wins high-profile case involving HIV drug scamEmory Law alumni reflect on the value of a legal education in nontraditional careers
EMORY LAW NEWS CENTER – Three Emory University School of Law alumni reflect on the value of a legal education in nontraditional careers: Omeed Malik ’06, Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York; David Tkeshelashvili ’06, Center for International and Comparative Law at Emory; and Ernesto Escobar ’14, VentureLab program at Georgia Tech.
Read More about Emory Law alumni reflect on the value of a legal education in nontraditional careersDuke Law alumna named president-elect of NCBA
SMITH ANDERSON – Caryn Coppedge McNeill, a partner at Smith Anderson and graduate of Duke University School of Law, has been named president-elect of the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA). McNeill will serve as the 123rd president of NCBA beginning in June 2017.
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NORTH CAROLINA BAR ASSOCIATION – Charles L. Becton, a 1969 graduate of Duke University School of Law, received the Lake Family Public Service Award at the 118th Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association in Charlotte.
Read More about Duke Law alumnus wins public service award at NCBA annual meetingCornell Law alumna Leslie Richards-Yellen assumes presidency of NAWL
CORNELL LAW SCHOOL – Leslie Richards-Yellen ’84 assumed the presidency of the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) on August 1. Richards-Yellen is the 89th president of the organization, which has worked to advance women in the legal profession and advocate for women under the law since 1899.
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