Veteran Nurse Jacqui Arena discusses law school experience at UConn
UCONN TODAY — Jacqui Arena was an opinionated and outspoken 13-year-old the first time someone told her she should be a lawyer. It took nearly 25 years for her to agree. In February 2021, deep into a career as certified registered nurse anesthetist at UConn Health, Arena found herself working long hours on legal challenges involving her young stepson, who had been diagnosed with autism.“I was spending all…
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FAMU FORWARD — Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law’s Logan Bartholomew is enrolled in the Field Placement program. Bartholomew is working with the Florida Department of Children & Families (DCF) to protect the legal rights and improve the lives of abused, neglected, and abandoned children. In this role, Bartholomew helped draft an appellate brief that…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Stein Scholar Anthony Damelio FCRH ’08, LAW ’22 has been awarded a Skadden Foundation Fellowship, which will begin in the fall of 2022. The program, launched by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in 1988, provides two-year-long fellowships to talented young lawyers who want to pursue public interest law on a…
Read More about Fordham Law student Anthony Damelio named Skadden FellowHarvard Law students discuss the importance of the Board of Student Advisors
HARVARD LAW TODAY — For Kareem Carryl ’22, starting Harvard Law School in the fall of 2019 was a little nerve-wracking. “It is scary coming Harvard Law School,” he says. “Obviously, you hear about all the amazing alumni — President Barack Obama [’91], First Lady Michelle Obama [’88] — and it feels as though you are coming…
Read More about Harvard Law students discuss the importance of the Board of Student AdvisorsUniversity of Hawai’i Law Innocence Project receives grant from the Department of Justice
HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT — The Hawaii Innocence Project at the University of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson School of Law has been awarded a substantial grant from the Department of Justice to fund DNA testing. On Tuesday, Kenneth Lawson, co-director of the Hawaii Innocence Project, announced the program was the recipient of a $573,355 grant from a program…
Read More about University of Hawai’i Law Innocence Project receives grant from the Department of JusticeHofstra Law students John Margolies and Alyssa Glasshagel compete in Fordham Law trial competition
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — Hofstra Law students John Margolies 3L and Alyssa Glasshagel 3L competed in Fordham’s Judge Paul Joseph Kelly, Jr. Invitational Trial Competition on November 11-14, 2021. The team advanced to the quarterfinal round with John winning the Best Summation for the competition. “It’s something I’ll cherish for a long time. When I first…
Read More about Hofstra Law students John Margolies and Alyssa Glasshagel compete in Fordham Law trial competitionUniversity of Minnesota Law Corporate Institute helps launch local businesses and non-profit organizations
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — When third-year law students Molly McKinsey and Edmund Pine signed up to spend last summer as practice scholars through Minnesota Law’s Corporate Institute, they knew they’d be busy helping local small business owners. What they didn’t know was that one of the things keeping them busy would be bees—or that they’d cap…
Read More about University of Minnesota Law Corporate Institute helps launch local businesses and non-profit organizationsA look at the new University of Minnesota Law Clemency Project
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — Seven years ago, professor JaneAnne Murray was tapped for the steering committee of Clemency Project 2014 (CP2014), a national effort by lawyers and advocates to provide legal assistance for people given excessively harsh prison sentences seeking clemency from President Barack Obama. She thought that to make this work meaningful, she should take…
Read More about A look at the new University of Minnesota Law Clemency ProjectPenn Law student Keith Matier discusses experience in the school’s first-generation professionals fellowship
PENN LAW — “Deliberate practice” are the words First Generation Professionals (FGP) Fellow Keith Matier L’24 uses to describe his approach to success. To him, though law school is a new context, he has employed this mindset over the course of his life. “Whenever I talk to people about trying my best, I liken it to excellent…
Read More about Penn Law student Keith Matier discusses experience in the school’s first-generation professionals fellowshipGift to St. Mary’s University Law to support student scholarships
ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY — A $1.8 million gift from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous will benefit scholarships for students of the St. Mary’s University School of Law. For more than 90 years, the School of Law has educated legal leaders with a commitment to service, justice and peace. As the only law school in San Antonio…
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