Several guest speakers with ties to the campus community met with second-year Elon University School of Law students this week as part of an innovative Winter Term course titled Leadership & Public Law.
Head football coach Pete Lembo talked with students on the topic “Leadership: Groups vs. Teams.” Jim Williams and Ed Winslow, both attorneys with the Greensboro law firm of Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard, also met with the class to talk about their experience practicing public law and the importance of attorney leadership in communities.
Leadership and Public Law is an intensive two-week course required of all second-year students, who are learning about leadership theory and applying it
through work on real issues with real community partners,
such as Self Help Credit Union and Action
Greensboro. The course is being led by Faith Rivers,
associate professor of law, and Margaret Kantlehner,
associate dean for external relations. John Alexander, Elon’s Isabella Cannon Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership for 2007-2008, is also playing a major role in the course, and led an opening-day session that introduced students to leadership theory and process.