Student News

Keep it concise and know your audience: N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Richard Dietz’s writing advice in a virtual presentation to first-year Elon Law students was drawn from his experience as an appellate attorney and six years on the bench.

Assistant Professor Taleed El-Sabawi recently hosted the first of what she hopes will be several online social gatherings for first-year students learning from home during the 2020 Spring Trimester.

Jackie Gauntlett L'19 and Megan Reilly-Dreas L'21 were recognized for their entries in the 2020 Multimodal Writing Competition hosted by the university's Center for Writing Excellence.

The Constitutional Law Appellate Advocacy Clinic tasked students this winter with researching and writing amicus curiae briefs in the Supreme Court of the United States and a U.S. Court of Appeals dealing with questions of judicial process and freedom of speech.

preLaw Magazine's 2020 guide to “Best Schools for Practical Training” listed Elon Law as a top law school for "giving students real-world experience before they step into the real world."

Online course instruction and residencies-in-practice will continue for the spring trimester after Elon Law administrators, in light of statewide stay-at-home orders, announced the closure of all facilities until the end of the 2020 Spring Trimester.

All in-person classroom instruction, in-person admissions interviews, and student meetings on campus are suspended through April 19 as Elon Law adopts social distancing policies and practices in response to COVID-19 pandemic.

Zechariah Etheridge, Andrew Tawiah and Kelsie Wiltse from Elon Law's Class of 2021 will work this summer in top legal placements through the North Carolina Bar Association's Minorities in the Profession 1L Summer Associate Program.

Judges from the North Carolina Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on March 4 in the case of a man convicted of drug possession who alleges an illegal search by police, and a civil lawsuit brought by the estate of a man killed when his riding mower overturned at a construction site.

Elon Law's Advocacy Fellows welcomed Associate Justice Mark Davis of the Supreme Court of North Carolina for a Tuesday program with retired Chief Justice James G. "Jim" Exum Jr., whose work in the state judiciary is featured in Davis' new book "A Warren Court of Our Own: The Exum Court and the Expansion of Individual Rights in North Carolina."