ABA selects IU McKinney Law alumnus to participate in leadership academy
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.
Read More about Hofstra Law alumna joins NYC Bar as Head of Diversity and InclusionHarvard Law alumna returns to Navajo Nation to strengthen tribal law and native voices
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 — Harvard Law alumnus Blake Strode ’15 is back home fighting the criminalization of poverty as executive director of ArchCity Defenders, a nonprofit civil rights law firm in St. Louis that has filed landmark cases that have already improved the lives of tens of thousands of low-income people.
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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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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — Equal Justice Works has selected Georgia State Law alumnus John Gainey (J.D. ’17) to serve as a legal fellow for the Georgia Housing Corps, a new fellowship program sponsored by the Georgia Bar Foundation, which addresses barriers to housing stability in Georgia’s rural and urban communities.
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — Georgia State Law alumna Sylvia Caley ’89 is retiring after 11 years as the director of the Health Law Partnership (HeLP), a medical-legal community collaboration among Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and the College of Law and the co-director of the HeLP Legal Services Clinic, which she helped found.
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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER — Georgetown Law alumnus Taylor Weaver ’17 launched Urban Energy Garden, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps not only to place minority college students with science and technology backgrounds (STEM) in federal externships but also to cover costs such as housing, transportation and living expenses.
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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER — Georgetown Law alumna Raquel Braun ’10 is the recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award at the 11th Annual Symposium. Braun founded the Georgetown Entertainment & Media Alliance, or GEMALaw. Today, Braun is the senior director of business and legal affairs at Fox Sports.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — George Washington Law alumnus Zakir Hafez, LLM ’00 and SJD ’03, was named the new Executive Secretary at the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. Hafez spoke about his new role at the World Bank and how his GW Law experience has shaped his career.
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