Cumberland Law alumna and judge Helen Shores Lee dies at 77
SAMFORD UNIVERSITY — Cumberland Law alumna and retired judge Helen Shores Lee passed away on July 2 at the age of 77. Lee was the daughter of famed civil rights attorney Arthur Shores, who defended Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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UVA LAW — U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse ’82 of Rhode Island will address climate change politics in a speech April 5 at the University of Virginia School of Law. He will deliver this year’s annual Lillian K. Stone Distinguished Lecture in Environmental Policy, titled “How We Win: The Path Forward in Congress on Climate Change,”
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PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Pepperdine Law alumnus Dane Ball (JD ’05), a partner at Smyser, Kaplan, and Veselka in Houston, TX helped secure the release of a Ugandan prisoner wrongly accused of murder during this summer’s Sudreau Global Justice Program Prison Project.
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PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Pepperdine Law alumna Meghan Milloy (JD ’12) has been selected to the 35th Class of Robert Bosch Foundation Fellows, consisting of 15 emerging leaders and experts from across the United States spanning the fields of law, government, business, international security, urban and regional planning, cultural management, and the NGO sector.
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PENN STATE LAW SCHOOL — The Penn State Alumni Association will honor Penn State Law alumna Rebecca Buckley-Stein ’15 with the Alumni Achievement Award, which recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of alumni 35 years of age and younger. Buckley-Stein currently works as a staff attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., in Delano, CA.
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PENN STATE DICKERSON LAW SCHOOL — Penn State Dickinson Law’s Women’s Law Caucus presented Barbara R. McLemore ’78, vice president and general counsel for Gannett Fleming, Inc., with the 24th annual Hon. Sylvia H. Rambo Award during a ceremony on February 22. McLemore received the award in recognition of her exemplary contributions to the legal…
Read More about Penn State Dickerson Law alumna honored with Rambo Award from Women’s Law CaucusOhio State Law alumna resolve billions of dollars in civil penalties following BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW — Ohio State Law alumna Abigail Andre ‘10 has been a trial attorney with the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division for eight years now, five of which she spent working on the BP/Deepwater Horizon case.
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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW — For Ohio State Law alumna Catherine Heigel ’95, president of Carolina Water Service, Inc., working in the utility industry offers the opportunity to make a significant difference in the quality of life of her customers.
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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW — If Ohio State Law alumna Cheyenne N. Chambers ’14 hadn’t participated in a First Amendment moot court case in her high school AP Government class, she probably would have become a history professor. Now an attorney with Tin Fulton Walker & Owen in Charlotte, N.C., Chambers still aspires…
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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW — Ohio State Law alumnus Timothy Myers ‘14, Legal Director of the Chicago Law & Education Foundation, rotates his office throughout eight public high schools in the city. His free legal clinics are meant to empower and educate some of Chicago’s most underserved students and their families.
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