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Krista Contino Saumby, associate director of career development in Elon Law's Office of Career and Student Development, is among a group educators and attorneys who will assist the Hispanic National Bar Association with strengthening Latino representation in the legal academy.

Chief legal correspondent and host Shannon Bream shared stories and perspectives on a range of topics during a recent visit to Greensboro as part of Elon Law’s 2022-2023 Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series presented by The Joseph M. Bryan Foundation. 

Bolstered by the academic strength of incoming students and improvements in bar passage rates, Elon University School of Law in downtown Greensboro reached #133 - its highest-ever placement - in an influential annual guide to the nation’s best graduate programs.

Professor Enrique Armijo spoke with journalist Tiffany Hsu for a report on the ongoing lawsuits against media organizations and personalities accused of defaming Dominion Voting Systems.

Three judges, one of whom previously taught legal writing at Elon Law, answered student questions after hearing oral arguments on April 26, 2023, regarding a business dispute between several insurance companies and their former owner.

Elon University President Connie Ledoux Book publicly thanked the interim dean for his leadership on April 18, 2023, and led a loud round of applause by students, faculty, and staff who celebrated his contributions to the downtown Greensboro law school.

PreLaw Magazine gives Elon University’s downtown Greensboro law school an A+ for its experiential curriculum in a 2023 ranking that celebrates the way legal programs help students “learn by doing.”  

Melo “Mel” Augustine, Shereena Kamal and Jessica Morales from the Class of 2024 will take part this summer in a North Carolina Bar Association enterprise that encourages and promotes diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

Professor Henry Gabriel will spend three months this spring as a distinguished visitor with Cambridge University’s Wolfson College where he will research comparative commercial law at the Center for Corporate and Commercial Law.

The anchor of “FOX News Sunday with Shannon Bream” and host of "Livin' the Bream" visits Greensboro on April 12 for Elon Law's Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series, and she spoke in advance with Courtney Latourrette L'24 about leadership, journalism, and role models who shattered glass ceilings for women.