Lewis & Clark Law to host symposium on environmental contamination and clean-up policy
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Three Lewis & Clark Law School alums, including Leah Feldon (’04), Cyndy Mackey (’86), and Laura Kerr (’14), will provide expert analysis at an upcoming symposium on Superfund issues organized by the Environmental Law Education Center (ELEC). “Superfund 2020, the 25th Annual Environmental Contamination & Cleanup Conference,” will be held March…
Read More about Lewis & Clark Law to host symposium on environmental contamination and clean-up policyLewis & Clark Law student Christopher Griffin wins American College of Legal Medicine writing competition
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Christopher Griffin ’20 was recently recognized by the American College of Legal Medicine (ACLM) for his paper, Urban Indian Health Care: At Odds with the Trust Doctrine, Federal Policy, and Self-Determination? Griffin received the First Place Orr Award for the national 2020 Student Writing Competition by ACLM. The competition is open to all…
Read More about Lewis & Clark Law student Christopher Griffin wins American College of Legal Medicine writing competitionUniversity of New Mexico Law hosts speaker series on social justice in media
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF LAW — The UNM School of Law kicked off its 2020 Social Justice Lunchbox Series under the Child & Family Justice Initiative (“CFJI”) last month. Dr. Brandale Mills Cox, Founder and Principal Researcher of Inclusive Market Research Group, LLC, led a dynamic discussion focused on crafting rhetoric for the advancement…
Read More about University of New Mexico Law hosts speaker series on social justice in mediaNotre Dame Law adjunct professor Rudy Moterrosa partners with Dilley Pro Bono Project to assist asylum seekers with legal needs
THE INDIANA LAWYER — For the second year in a row, Monterrosa took a team to the Texas-Mexico border to offer free legal services to women and children seeking asylum in the United States. His experience this time, however, was quite different. Monterrosa’s team consisted of two attorneys — himself and his wife, Cecilia Lopez Monterrosa —…
Read More about Notre Dame Law adjunct professor Rudy Moterrosa partners with Dilley Pro Bono Project to assist asylum seekers with legal needsSyracuse University Law student Emily Hildreth provides advice on taking gap year before law school
THE LANTERN — Gap years, which can consist of anything from service work to research, can act as buffer periods in between graduating and starting school that can cement decisions and save money. Emily Hildreth, an Ohio State 2018 alumna, majored in history and economics and took a year off to be a substitute teacher before…
Read More about Syracuse University Law student Emily Hildreth provides advice on taking gap year before law schoolUniversity of Tennessee Law hosts advocacy competition for first-year students
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW — First-year student Alissa Netto won the University of Tennessee College of Law’s First-Year Advocacy Competition Monday to become the Advocacy Idol for 2020. The event featured 24 competitors, mentored by second- and third-year advocacy students, who had 15 minutes to learn the details of their case and prepare an opening…
Read More about University of Tennessee Law hosts advocacy competition for first-year studentsA look at the women leading law reviews as editor-in-chief
THE WASHINGTON POST — The event in part celebrated the statistical improbability of an all-female sweep of elections at the leading publications of legal scholarship at schools including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, Columbia and Duke universities. The editors in chief collaborated for the first time to publish a Women & Law journal with a series of…
Read More about A look at the women leading law reviews as editor-in-chiefA look at the University of Arizona Law externship program in Pheonix
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA JAMES E. COLLEGE OF LAW — Students in the Phoenix Externship Program spend three days a week working in an externship placement and two days in small-group classes with University of Arizona Law faculty and special guest instructors from the Phoenix area, such as Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick, Deputy General Counsel to Governor Doug Ducey, Nicole Ong Colyer, and Arizona Attorney General’s Office Chief of Staff, Joe Kanefield.
Read More about A look at the University of Arizona Law externship program in PheonixUC Irvine Law student Angela Shen honored by Asian-American legal organization
UCI LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is delighted to announce Angela Shen, a law student at the school, has been selected to receive one of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles (AAAJ-LA) Volunteer Recognition Awards. She will be recognized at the 6th annual Pro Bono Advisory Council…
Read More about UC Irvine Law student Angela Shen honored by Asian-American legal organizationCampbell Law students Grace Massarelli and Amber Younce win regional ABA Client Counseling Competition
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY — Campbell Law advocates have earned yet another championship this time at the Regional American Bar Association (ABA) Client Counseling Competition on Feb. 8 in Knoxville, Tennessee, Campbell Law Dean J. Rich Leonard announced. Second-year law students Grace Massarelli and Amber Younce are Campbell Law’s newest Regional Client Counseling Champions.
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