On the eve of Commencement Exercises, members of the Class of 2012 took time to celebrate all they had achieved collectively and to recognize individual achievements of their peers.
Ben Snyder is the 2012 recipient of Elon University School of Law’s highest honor for a graduating student, the David Gergen Award for Leadership and Professionalism.
The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at Elon Law held its annual reception and dinner honoring third-year law students on April 20. Angela Gray of Gray Newell, LLP in Raleigh, North Carolina delivered the event's keynote address.
At Elon Law's sixth and final reception with the legal community for the academic year, the law school recognized students for pro bono and community service. Henry Isaacson, senior partner of Isaacson Isaacson Sheridan & Fountain, LLP, spoke on the importance of pro bono work.
The student body at Elon Law recently elected a new slate of Student Bar Association (SBA) leaders for the 2012-13 academic year. Gwendolyn Lewis will serve as President.
Mitch Baroody, a member of the Class of 2014 at Elon Law, participated in a March 19 Washington, DC event to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Lebanese Cedar Revolution. The event featured U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly.
The Elon University School of Law Alumni Association, together with Dean Johnson and the faculty, staff and administration of Elon Law, welcome all law school alumni and family for Reunion Weekend, Friday, May 18 through Sunday, May 20.
Elon Law graduates are advancing innovative national policy to increase U.S. exports, advising the public on health care law through media appearances, marking milestones of service in public interest law, and celebrating recognition as Super Lawyers.
The feature article in the Sunday, August 21 careers section of the Greensboro News and Record explores Elon Law's program of legal education and its benefits though the lens of Elon Law alumnus Bernie Brown, L'10, an attorney with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC.
Brendan Garcia, a member of Elon Law's Class of 2011, has been accepted into the Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF) program. The number of applicants to the program each year has been as high as 8,500 in recent years. In 2011, 275 PMF finalists have been hired by federal agencies. Garcia will be working with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in the Veterans Benefits Administration.
The National Association for Legal Career Professionals (NALP) recently published Employer Outreach Best Practices Guide, co-edited by S. Christian Smith, Assistant Dean for Career Services at Elon University School of Law.
In honor of the ABA National Pro Bono Celebration, Elon Law's Office of Career Services and the Public Interest Law Society (PILS) recently hosted four Greensboro-area attorneys to speak on the role pro bono service plays in firm practice settings.
Being a healthcare attorney requires a unique dedication to the field, panelists said during the Health Law Panel at Elon Law on Oct. 26. The panel, co-hosted by Elon University School of Law's Office of Career Services and Elon's chapter of the Society for Health Law and Bioethics, provided career advice and answered students' questions about healthcare-related legal jobs.
The Elon Law Sports & Entertainment Law Society, together with the law school's Office of Career Services, hosted a Sports & Entertainment Law panel on Oct. 10. The event was moderated by Visiting Professor of Law David Maraghy, CEO of Sports Management International, Inc.
Members of Elon Law's Classes of 2012 and 2013 served in all branches of government, in public interest positions, and in law firms and the offices of corporate counsel this summer. Many served in cities and towns across North Carolina, while others held positions in locations across the country, including New York, NY, Washington, DC, New Orleans, LA, Columbia, SC, and Fort Worth, TX.
On August 17, the eve of the Wyndham Championship, Elon University School of Law hosted a sports management forum that explored different aspects of professional sports, especially professional golf.
Elon Law's Career Services office, along with the law school's Moot Court Board, sponsored a Post-Graduate Judicial Clerkship Panel at the law school on April 14. At the event, judges shared with students the qualities and expectations of their law clerks and what they like to see in clerkship applications. Current law clerks shared with the audience a typical day in their lives and important tips for preparing clerkship applications.
Elon Law's winter-term Public Law and Leadership course partnered second-year students with four nonprofit organizations to help solve real legal issues while providing students with hands on experience.
The January 2012 Lawyering, Leadership and Professionalism course at Elon Law encouraged first-year students to explore practical and theoretical aspects of leadership and professionalism.
On Oct. 8, Elon Law's Leadership Fellows hosted a forum for more than 30 undergraduate Leadership Fellows from Elon University to discuss social justice issues. The theme of the forum was,"Think Globally, Act Locally."
On Oct. 14, law school dean George R. Johnson, Jr. announced that Greensboro attorneys Mike Marshall and Karen McKeithen Schaede are the recipients of Elon University School of Law's 2011 Leadership in the Law Award. The award recognizes lawyers who make outstanding contributions to the profession and to society.
Leadership Fellows at Elon Law invite members of the Elon Law community to the first Leadership Roundtable of the semester. The event will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 20 from 12:15 until 12:45 p.m. in room 204.
In a chapter of the book Coaching for Leadership, Elon Law’s Distinguished Leadership Coach-in-Residence offers insights from his work with law students participating in the school’s Leadership Program.
Elon Law Professor David Levine co-authored a May 9 letter to U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk, signed by 32 legal academics, calling for public access to U.S. negotiating positions related to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).
Catherine Dunham, Steve Friedland and Michael Rich have provided analysis for national TV networks, international wire services and major newspapers including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and the Los Angeles Times.
The Elon Law professor writes in an April 29 News and Record article that the proposed amendment to the North Carolina Constitution may have a number of unintended and negative consequences for the state and its residents.
Bonnie McAlister, Executive Coach in Residence at Elon Law, presented at the Association of Law Teachers annual conference at Oxford University in England on April 2.
In March, Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord delivered presentations at Wake Forest University, Thomas M. Cooley and Michigan State University law schools, focusing on sectarian legislative prayer and the First Amendment at Wake Forest and Cooley, and on Constitutional Law questions surrounding the taxation of e-commerce at Michigan State.
Elon Law Professor David Levine recently presented at Drake University Law School and the University of North Carolina School of Law, examining issues in intellectual property law and the Internet.
The St. Louis Public Law Review recently published the article, "Engaging Law Students in Leadership" authored by Elon Law Professor Faith Rivers James.
Elon Law Professor David Levine was invited to be a featured presenter at the thirtieth anniversary symposium of the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, held March 28.
Professors Scott Gaylord and Tom Molony recently published articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer and Birmingham News examining the constitutionality of proposed and existing state laws regulating - and in some cases requiring - the use of ultrasounds in connection with abortion procedures.
The 2012 Symposium of the Elon Law Review will examine, “Emerging Issues in First Amendment Jurisprudence: Interpreting the Relationship Between Religion and the State in the Modern Age." Proposals for participation in the October 26 symposium should be submitted by July 15.
Thirty-three teams of law students representing 21 law schools participated in the second annual Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition at Elon University School of Law on March 30 and 31. North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Paul Martin Newby delivered the keynote address at the competition banquet.
Elon Law student Ben Snyder and his Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic client Lynn Knul had cause to celebrate on February 24, when Knul, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2011, took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States, becoming one of the nation's newest citizens.
Marking the school's first five years and the achievement of full approval from the American Bar Association, a broad spectrum of the Elon Law community came together for an evening of celebration on Oct. 6. Links to a special report and slideshow about the school's first five years are included with this article.
For a second consecutive year, every member of the faculty at Elon University School of Law contributed to the Law School Faculty and Staff Campaign in 2010. Giving from the staff at Elon Law rose from 80 percent in 2009 to 100 percent in 2010. Support from the law faculty and staff raises substantial funds for law student scholarships.
Elon Law's fifth annual Diversity Day welcomed minority high school and college students, among others, to a day of information about legal education and opportunities for careers in law. Students and their families attended the February 11 event, featuring The Honorable James Randolph Spencer, the first African-American Judge of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia.
One hundred and thirty students, representing 59 undergraduate institutions, 30 majors, 18 states, a foreign country, and an array of professional backgrounds, have joined Elon Law as the Class of 2014. The university welcomed the class through a convocation ceremony featuring remarks by James G. Exum, Jr., former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and distinguished jurist in residence at Elon Law.
The May 5 edition of the News & Record features Elon University School of Law for its contributions to the economic growth and vitality of downtown Greensboro. The article reports on downtown Greensboro's comparatively strong economic growth indicators, noting Elon's recent purchase of property in the area and the university's plans to expand facilities for the law school.
More than 80 current and prospective law students attended the fourth annual Diversity Day at Elon Law on February 26. Prospective students were able to learn more about what it takes to be admitted and to succeed in law school and about the opportunities that lawyers have to serve society throughout their careers.
The Philanthropy Journal featured the innovative preceptor program of the Elon University School of Law in a Dec. 23 story. Reporter Todd Cohen described the ways that practicing attorneys are sharing their wisdom with Elon Law students.
Elon University has signed a purchase agreement on three properties in downtown Greensboro, about one-half block north of Elon University School of Law.
Applicants to Elon University School of Law are encouraged to consider the law school's Leadership Fellows program, applications for which are available below. The application deadline for Fellows entering fall 2011 is Friday, March 4, 2011.
Elaine R. Jones, the nation’s top civil rights lawyer from 1993 to 2004, identified core values and key strategies of the African-American Civil Rights Movement through remarks delivered at Elon University School of Law's third annual Martin Luther King, Jr. forum on January 13.
