Trial practice class motivates Ohio State Law alumnus to pursue career in litigation
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW — Ohio State Law alumnus Hal Baker ’17 has always dreamed of becoming a courtroom trial attorney. Now, Baker is on his way to pursuing a career in litigation. Following his clerkships, Baker plans to start in the Jones Day Columbus office.
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MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — After graduation, Mitchell Hamline Law alumnus Brandt Devich ’16 worked on a case he was assigned in the Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners clinic. Devich represented a man who was charged $25 a day while he was locked up in Martin County Jail in southern Minnesota.
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MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Mercer Law alumna Adriana Ibarra Vazquez ’15 became the first Licensed Foreign Law Consultant in the state of Georgia. Vazquez practiced intellectual property law in Mexico for 11 years, until she fell in love with her husband Dan, an American. Vazquez currently serves as Legal Counsel for the Americas at…
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THE JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL — John Marshall Law alumnus Evan Schanerberger ’15 was a 2018 recipient of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Board of Governors Award. He is one of the youngest persons to ever receive the award. Schanerberger is currently employed as a Special Assistant Attorney General at the Illinois Department of Revenue.
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY MCKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW — IU McKinney alumna Pervin Taleyarkhan ’13 has been named a Young Lawyer Fellow for 2017-2020 by the Section on Intellectual Property Law. The Associate Legal Counsel joined Whirlpool Corporation in 2016 after working as a legal associate at the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization.
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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 alumnus Matthew Whitlock ’17 is the first alumnus to take advantage of Renmin University of China Law School’s scholarship for IU McKinney graduates who want to pursue a Master of Laws degree in Chinese Law.
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY MCKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW — IU McKinney School of Law alumna and judge Shequitta Kelly ’03 joined with three other Dallas County (Texas) judges to create Pipeline to Possibilities, an effort to change the “pipeline to prison” narrative of the American criminal justice system.
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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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