University of Iowa Law students address the pandemic’s impact on the workplace
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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PENN STATE LAW — First-year law student Britny Martinez has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote Penn State Law Diversity Scholarship, which was created in July 2020. As part of the award, Martinez will receive tuition support and a summer clerkship with the law firm.
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QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — “Equity, diversity, inclusion and justice mean more than having a certain percentage of your workforce or student body from underrepresented communities,” William Tong, attorney general for the state of Connecticut, recently told member of the School of Law’s Student Bar Association.
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW — Megan Kaleah, L’22, offers a helpful visual representation to illustrate the challenges that deaf clients encounter when seeking legal representation. Kaleah took on the concept of cultural competency in her second-year research project, bringing together two of the topics she’s most passionate about.
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW — The annual symposia hosted by the University of Richmond Law Review, the Richmond Public Interest Law Review, and the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology are a highlight of the academic year, bringing together scholars and practitioners for a day of learning on timely and topical legal issues.
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