Florida State University Law students win national moot court competition
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — The Florida State University College of Law Moot Court Team has won first place in the 2021 National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare & Adoption Law. The virtual competition was held February 26-27 and hosted by the Family & Youth Law Center at Capital University Law School.
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Fordham Law School’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) won Chapter of the Year at the National BLSA Convention held March 3 to March 7. The honor comes on the heels of Fordham Law’s BLSA chapter being named Northeast Regional Chapter of the Year.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — Long before Brice Ngameni ’21 came to the United States from Cameroon in 2008, he dreamed of becoming a lawyer. As he prepares to graduate from Harvard Law, Ngameni is working to help others realize their own goals. He is focused on supporting students of African descent in getting into law schools.
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MOSCOW PULLMAN DAILY NEWS — The University of Idaho has assembled a team of IRS-certified student volunteers to provide direct tax filing assistance to those earning less than $57,000 a year. Organizers described the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, or VITA, as a “free H &R Block,” almost completely sponsored by the IRS.
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW — The law students in Professor Lea VanderVelde’s Employment Law course have been doing cutting-edge research into how the pandemic is impacting work laws, as it re-arranges workplaces, requires business closures, transforms the ways we get goods, decimates the service sector, and sickens millions of workers.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — The Recording Academy®, the organization behind the Grammy awards, named Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law LL.M. student Sophia Sofferman, winner of this year’s Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Competition for her paper “It’s My [Recapture Right], And It’s Now or Never…”
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Charles C. Papy, Jr. Moot Court board members Tony Bell, 3L, Kevin Stone, 2L, and Leandra Lopez, 2L, won first place at the 10th Annual Cristol Kahn Paskay Cup Eleventh Circuit Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition. Bell was also awarded second best oralist in the competition.
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NEW ENGLAND LAW BOSTON — For students looking to become immigration lawyers, gaining experience in the field is just as important, if not more important, than the learning that takes place in the classroom. The professor at New England Law always on the forefront of groundbreaking immigration work? That would be Professor Haynes.
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NEW ENGLAND LAW BOSTON — Kayla Pulliam and Alison Sexson, 2L students at New England Law | Boston, will compete in the National American Bar Association Law Student Division Client Counseling Competition. The competition tests participants on fundamental skills necessary for all successful attorneys.
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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Samantha Contreras, a second-year student at Notre Dame Law School, has received a generous scholarship from Michael Best & Friedrich LLP in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The scholarship will provide tuition assistance for Contreras’ third year of law school.
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