Author: Margot Slade

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Law Student Limelight: Northeastern’s Adam Cernea Clark

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 Adam Cernea Clark

Law School:
 Northeastern University School of Law

Status: 3L

Focus:  International Development, Environmental Law

Undergraduate Degree/Institution: BA English (2005), Kenyon College

Graduate Degree/Institution: Masters, Environmental Law & Policy, Vermont Law School (joint program)

Home city/town, state or country: Houston, Texas

On a Northeastern law school co-op program in Bucharest, Romania last August, Adam Cernea Clark arrived just as thousands of protesters took to the street. The government was about to approve a private sector gold mining project that many Romanians feared would release cyanide into the environment. Cernea Clark, who studies environmental law and international development as part of Northeastern’s dual-degree program with Vermont Law School, said he felt compelled to get involved. Continue reading →

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Law Student Limelight: John Marshall’s Paul Kossof

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Law School: The John Marshall Law School

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Name: Paul Kossof

Status: 3L; LL.M., International Business and Trade Law ‘15

Practice area: Intellectual Property

Undergraduate degree/major: BA, Spanish and Philosophy of Law

Undergraduate institution: Villanova University

Graduate degree: Current International Business and Trade Law LLM Candidate

Graduate institution: The John Marshall Law School

Home city/town, state: Chicago, Ill.

Paul Kossof, an International Business and Trade Law LL.M. candidate at The John Marshall Law School, has written what seems to be the first book on China’s new trademark law, which took effect in May 2014. Continue reading →

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Dean Limelight: Deanell Reece Tacha, Pepperdine University Law

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When Pepperdine University’s School of Law needed a new dean in 2011, it found someone equal parts jurist and academic. Deanell Reece Tacha had served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since 1986 and as Chief Judge from 2001 through 2007. She was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States and in 2006, Chief Justice John Roberts named her to the Conference’s Executive Committee. Continue reading →

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Dean Limelight: Mitchel L. Winick, Monterey College of Law

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Mitchel L. Winick’s double-barreled title – president and dean, Monterey College of Law – neatly encapsulates both his responsibilities and the law school’s academic/work-world nature. A California state-accredited nonprofit, Monterey Law’s four-year evening program has historically served up an affordable legal education to working professionals. Even the faculty comprises practicing lawyers and judges. Winick regularly lauds them as bringing real-life experience and perspective to their classes. Continue reading →

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Law Student Limelight: Stetson’s Shivani Alamo

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Law School: Stetson University College of Law

Name: Shivani Alamo

Status: 3L

Practice area: Advocate for Social Justice, Education Reform

Undergraduate degree/major: B.A., International StudiesShivani-Alamo

Undergraduate institution: University of South Florida

Home city, state: New York, New York

stet, a third-year Stetson University College of Law student, is an advocate for children and education reform. She traveled to New York City last year to accept the prestigious New Generation Award, a special Lewis Hine Award for Service to Children and Youth. The award is named for the National Child Labor Committee photographer who documented early 20th century exploitation of children to facilitate child labor reform. Continue reading →

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Dean Limelight: Craig Boise, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

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Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Dean Craig Boise was a nontraditional student who made a habit of seeing and seizing opportunities – jumping, for example, from studying piano to a job in his Kansas City, Mo., hometown police department, and from a police academy where he learned about the law back to college (University of Missouri) and then into legal academia itself. Continue reading →

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Law Student Limelight: Georgetown’s Brandon Stone

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Law School: Georgetown University Law Center

Name: Brandon Stone

Class: L’15  

Practice area interests:  Technology law and women’s human rights

GULC Veterans Day Program with former FBI Director Judge Louis FreehUndergraduate degree/major: BA, Economics

Undergraduate institution/year: Ohio State University (with honors) 2004

Other: Officer, U.S. Navy, SEAL

Training institution: U.S. Navy Officer Candidate School/Naval Special Warfare Center

Home city/town, state:  Juneau, AK (Alaska)

Brandon Stone received a standing ovation when he spoke at Georgetown Law’s 2013 Veterans Day Program, honoring those who have served in the military. Stone, a second-year student in the J.D. program at Georgetown Law, graduated with honors from the Ohio State University in 2004 and joined the U.S. Navy. Upon his commissioning at Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Fla., he transferred to the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, Calif., where he trained to become a SEAL officer. He later transferred to a SEAL Team in Virginia Beach, Va. Continue reading →

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Dean Limelight: Maureen O’Rourke, Boston University School of Law

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Maureen O’Rourke may be her own best example of where preparation and prescience can take technology-savvy lawyers. The dean of Boston University School of Law, O’Rourke was among the first to immerse herself in the crosscurrents of the Internet and copyright law. She literally co-wrote the book “Copyright in a Global Information Economy,” one of the leading U.S. casebooks on the subject.

O’Rourke began her career as an attorney at IBM Corp. in 1990, working on software licensing, before joining the BU Law faculty in 1993. She helped supervise the student-run “Journal of Science and Technology Law” and won the school’s highest teaching honor – the Metcalf Award – in 2000. She became the dean in 2006 after two years as interim dean.
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Not surprisingly, she sets as an imperative ensuring that BU law students have “transferable skills and an entrepreneurial spirit” as technology torques the practice of law.

O’Rourke, who completed her legal studies at Yale Law School, was among the first deans to answer a series of questions that Lawdragon is asking all law school deans in the U.S. as part of our new website devoted to legal education, which is launching this month. Continue reading →

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