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Dean Limelight: Michael Wolff, Saint Louis University School of Law

Posted on: by Margot Slade

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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Dean Limelight: Brooklyn Law School’s Nick Allard

Posted on: by Margot Slade

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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Law Student Limelight: Brendan Corrigan, University of Miami Law

Posted on: by Margot Slade

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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Campus Roundup: Concordia Awaits ABA’s OK as 1st Graduation Looms

Posted on: by James Langford

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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Law Student Limelight: April Bosma, William Mitchell College of Law

Posted on: by Margot Slade

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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Dean Limelight: Gary Myers, University of Missouri School of Law

Posted on: by Margot Slade

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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Dean Limelight: University of Miami Law’s Patricia White

Posted on: by James Langford

University of Miami Law Dean Patricia WhiteConsider this: What would Aristotle, the fourth-century Greek philosopher, have in common with a successful 21st-century tax lawyer? If your first guess was “nothing,” you were wrong.

Philosophers and tax attorneys share an ability to think analytically, to read language critically and to grasp its meaning, to build a logical argument and counter an adversary’s.

That’s the premise of Patricia White, dean of the University of Miami School of Law, who studied both fields at the University of Michigan, earning a master’s degree in philosophy and a juris doctorate in 1974. Continue reading →

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Golden Gate Expands Veterans Services Inspired by Diplomat’s Death

Posted on: by James Langford

The killing of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens in 2012 ignited a political firestorm about how well the U.S. protects its personnel, from diplomats to soldiers, serving in dangerous environments abroad.

At Golden Gate University’s law school, it was the genesis of a different movement: supporting veterans who had already completed their military service. The effort begun by Dean Rachel Van Cleave led to the creation of the Veterans Legal Advocacy Center, which brings together a variety of programs to assist veterans pursuing careers in the law and now includes a clinic in which students help veterans obtain health benefits they’re unable to get on their own. Continue reading →

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Law Student Limelight: University of Miami Law’s Noel Pace

Posted on: by Margot Slade

 

University of Miami law student Noel Pace, right, and alum Ryan Foley, left, helped U.S. Army veteran Hosea Smith, center, obtain Social Security disability payments. Smith is a leukemia patient of the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Miami.

University of Miami law student Noel Pace, right, and alum Ryan Foley, left, helped U.S. Army veteran Hosea Smith, center, obtain Social Security disability payments. Smith is a leukemia patient of the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Miami.

STUDENT NAME: Noel Christian Pace

LAW SCHOOL: University of Miami School of Law and U.S. Army War College (attending concurrently)

STATUS: J.D. – 3L full-time; Master of Strategic Studies, 2nd Year, part-time

UNDERGRADUATE: B.S. in management, Tulane University, New Orleans; Army ROTC Scholarship: Distinguished Military Graduate

OTHER DEGREE/INSTITUTION: Master’s in health administration, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; Master’s of Business Administration, University of Denver.

HOME CITY/STATE OR COUNTRY: Originally Fayetteville, New York (before being commissioned in the U.S. Army in 1993); now a resident of El Portal, Florida.

Think of Noel Christian Pace as a paladin fighting for health justice in the U.S., particularly for giving military veterans the services they deserve. The image of a knight is more appropriate than many might think: This Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and third-year law student at the University of Miami School of Law is concurrently a second-year master’s student at the U.S. Army War College; an Equal Justice Works/AmeriCorpsJD Veteran’s Rights Fellow with the Dean’s Certificate of Achievement (highest grade) for his work in the University of Miami Health Rights Clinic in 2013-2014, and has a history as a leader with health-care organizations in and out of law school. Continue reading →

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Dean Limelight: Harvard Law’s Martha Minow

Posted on: by Margot Slade

Martha Minow. Photo by Ken Richardson.

Martha Minow can’t say “no” when it comes to working for people on society’s margins – typically members of racial and religious minorities, women, children, people with disabilities. Even when she insists that she knows nothing about the specific subject – refugees, for example, or Kosovo – the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law of Harvard Law School ends up as the co-chair or co-creator of some targeted, outcomes-based human rights initiative. Continue reading →

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