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David Medina, Arizona State Sandra Day O'Connor College of LawSTUDENT NAME: David Medina

LAW SCHOOL: Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (Arizona State University)

STATUS:  3L

UNDERGRADUATE: Bachelor of Science/ Management Science and Engineering/ Stanford University

HOME CITY, STATE: Pico Rivera, California 

At the intersection of engineering and entrepreneurship, David Medina found the law.

As an undergraduate at Stanford University, Medina majored in what he described in an interview as “Startups 101″ – a broad education in all things engineering with a deep dive into the business management side of things. Continue reading

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Southwestern Law Dean Susan PragerLOS ANGELES – Susan Westerberg Prager has vivid memories of the high school counselor who explained, before she graduated in 1960, the limited career paths available to her.

“You’re a good student, but because you’re a woman,” said the counselor, a woman herself, “there are really only two professions that you can go into: nursing or teaching.” Continue reading

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From kindergarten through graduate-degree programs, millions of U.S. students went back to school in September. So did Lawdragon Campus.

We joined pre-law advisers in the Midwest and the South who visited six of the 200-plus American Bar Association-accredited law schools in the United States, rubbing shoulders with members of an entering class that likely continued to shrink on a nationwide basis this year, though initial enrollment tallies aren’t yet available. Continue reading

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BC LAW SALINAS2STUDENT: Alejandra C. Salinas

LAW SCHOOL: Boston College Law School

STATUS: 3L

UNDERGRADUATE: BBA, Management; University of Texas at Austin

HOME CITY/STATE: Laredo, Texas

Anyone describing Alejandra C. Salinas, a 3L at Boston College Law School, better get used to using the word “first.” Salinas was the first Hispanic president of College Democrats of America, the youth arm of the Democratic Party. She then marked her tenure with membership growth, record-setting convention attendance and increased investments in state organizations. Continue reading

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SLU WOLFF3Michael Wolff’’s journey to the Saint Louis University School of Law makes for both a good yarn and an illustration of how smarts and serendipity contribute to the making of a law dean.

Graduating from Dartmouth College, where he was editor of “America’s oldest college newspaper” (founded 1799), Wolff eschewed journalism for a law career, though he worked for what was then the Minneapolis Star throughout his University of Minnesota Law School years. “I thought I’d have more autonomy as a lawyer,” he said in an interview. Continue reading

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Turns out that Nick Allard was a kind of stealth appointment as dean of Brooklyn Law School in 2012. Not that he or the law school’s board of trustees planned it that way. A consummate Washington, D.C., lawyer and lobbyist – Allard was for more than 20 years a partner at Latham & Watkins and then at Patton Boggs, chairing government relations and public policy groups at both firms – he has delivered on his obvious government, agency and institutional connections. Continue reading

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STUDENT: Brendan G. Corrigan

Brendan G. Corrigan, right, pictured inside the United States Capitol with Congressman Joe Kennedy (D-MA).

Brendan G. Corrigan, right, pictured during his summer internship inside the United States Capitol with Congressman Joe Kennedy (D-MA).

LAW SCHOOL: University of Miami School of Law

STATUS: 4L JD/Master in Public Administration Dual-Degree (graduating December 2014)

UNDERGRADUATE: BS in Political Science, summa cum laude, Arizona State University, May 2011

HOME CITY/STATE: Bristol, Pennsylvania

Brendan G. Corrigan is single-minded about the need to protect the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens in the United States. And as far as Corrigan is concerned, those protections must begin at home – literally – given the lack of statewide protections in Pennsylvania, where he lives. Continue reading

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Concordia University School of Law is vying to attain national certification by the end of the 2014-15 academic year so that its first class of students, slated to graduate in the spring, can take the bar exam afterward.

One of just two Idaho law schools, Concordia opened in the fall of 2012. Should it miss its goal for provisional approval from the American Bar Association’s government-designated accrediting agency for law schools, the licensing process for students nearing graduation becomes more complex and potentially more expensive. Continue reading

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WM MITCHELL APRIL BOSMA2STUDENT NAME:  April Bosma

LAW SCHOOL:  William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn.

STATUS:  2L

UNDERGRADUATE:  University of Northern Iowa – Economics major, Spanish minor

HOME CITY/STATE:  Spirit Lake, Iowa

It seems to have been no contest when it came to choosing the first student to spotlight at William Mitchell College of Law. Faculty members, staff and classmates cited April Bosma for her grit, determination, academic excellence and commitment to serving the community. In her home state of Iowa, she mentored children at a local Boys and Girls Club, and at her law-school’s home base in Minnesota, she’s followed what she calls the “deepest part of my heart” to volunteer at the Secondhand Hounds animal shelter.

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The job of law dean, as Gary Myers sees it, is mostly about constituencies and collaborative relationships. “I only wish I had realized in advance how many different constituencies we serve beyond the obvious ones – students, faculty, staff and alumni,” Myers, dean of the University of Missouri School of Law, said in an interview.U.MISSOURI.Myers Gary

Every interaction, he said, allows him to move beyond a limited connection to a long-term alliance that will benefit the law school. It’s a multitasking challenge, Myers said, in which he is sometimes “learning by doing.” Continue reading

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