Yale Law alumnus named Guggenheim Fellow in poetry
YALE LAW SCHOOL — Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16, who is a PhD in Law candidate at Yale Law School, has been named a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. Raised in Suitland, MD, Betts is a poet, memoirist, and lawyer, his writing and research investigate, explore, and grapple with the central role of incarceration to the American…
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — Wayne State Law alumna Valerie Newsman ’92, renowned as a champion for the rights of the wrongly accused, has a new job as head of the Conviction Integrity Unit with the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. Newsman spent 23 years with the State Appellate Defender Office.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — Wayne State Law alumna Laura Barrera ’16 works for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law Immigration Clinic. Barrera represents unaccompanied refugee children in deportation proceedings before the Immigration Court and before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency of the Department of Homeland Security.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — Wayne State Law alumnus Farah Al-khersan ’15 knows on many levels what her clients go through in their quest to live in America. Al-khersan is an immigration attorney in the Law Office of Michael Carlin PLLC in Ann Arbor, practicing family-based immigration and removal cases.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — Wayne State law alumnus Ruby Robinson ’11 is co-managing attorney for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, an organization that spearheads the effort to stand up for immigrant rights in the state. The 11 attorneys of MIRC represent without charge all of the immigrant children in Michigan in federal foster care.
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THE COLUMNS — Washington & Lee Law alumnus Sam Petsonk ’13 was featured in West Virginia Living, detailing his advocacy work for the homeless in Charleston. Petsonk came to the assistance of the residents of a large tent city along the Elk River after local officials ordered the police to break up the camp.
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THE COLUMNS — From corporate big-law to outdoors gear connoisseurs, Washington & Lee Law couple Ferrell & Koral Alman, Class of 2012, are trailblazers. The dynamic duo walked away from lucrative corporate law gigs in Silicon Valley to build an eco-friendly outdoor company from the ground up.
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THE COLUMNS — Daniel Goldman ’11 serves as the lead Capital Defender for the Northern Virginia Capital Defender Office, which represents poor persons charged with capital murder and facing the death penalty in the state courts. Goldman is the first Washington & Lee Law alumnus to head one of Virginia’s four regional capital defender offices.…
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THE COLUMNS — Washington & Lee Law alumna Katie Abplanalp Brown, a partner with Maddin Hauser in Detroit and a 2005 graduate of the College and 2011 graduate of the Law School, has been named the recipient of the 2018 Regeana Myrick Outstanding Young Lawyer Award from the State Bar of Michigan Young Lawyers Section.
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WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Washburn Law alumna Samantha Chechele ’88 presented the Lunch and Learn “How to Make a Living With a Transactional Practice” on March 2, 2018. In 1991, Chechele founded her own practice, which mainly focuses on estate planning, taxation, and real estate.
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