Wake Forest Law will once again offer a Summer Pre-law Program for undergraduates taught by Law Professors Wilson Parker and Chris Coughlin, and Communication Professors Jarrod Atchison and John Llewellyn.The program consists of two courses that will be taught in the law school but will qualify for credit from the undergraduate college: “Legal Theory, Practice, and …

The vast majority of law schools in the United States are operating at a significant financial loss, according to a survey conducted by a professor of law at the University of Colorado. In a recent article on his blog, “Lawyers Guns and Money,” Paul Campos, professor of law at the University of Colorado, estimated that 80-85 …

Chief Judge Carl Stewart of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is referred to as one of the most influential federal judges in the nation in an ABA Journal article published this month. In an in-depth interview, “Meet the chief judge of the nation’s most divisive, controversial and conservative appeals court,” Mark …

The Wake Forest University Men’s Basketball Team helped Hanes Hosiery Community Center celebrate the end of another successful youth basketball league season. The players’ visit last Thursday was arranged by Ashley Waring (’15) of the Youth Advocacy Group, which is made up of Wake Forest Law students who take on volunteer projects that benefit youth. …

Allison Levene (‘14) has found a unique way to relieve pressure while studying at Wake Forest Law. “Volunteering with kids is a great way to cope with law school stress,” says Levene, who has been managing the after-school tutoring and basketball program for children atHanes Hosiery Community Center in Winston-Salem for two years. She began volunteering at the center her first year …

Wake Forest Law students, faculty, staff and alumni are participating in the 2014 North Carolina Legal Feeding Frenzy, with the support of Dean Blake D. Morant. Sponsored by The Young Lawyers Division of the North Carolina Bar Association, and in conjunction with the North Carolina Association of Feeding America Food Banks, volunteers will be fulfilling …

Wake Forest School of Law Dean Blake Morant and Twana Wellman-Roebuck, the executive director of the nonprofit the Experiment in Self-Reliance (ESR), have been selected to receive top honors at The Chronicle of Winston-Salem’s 29th Annual Community Service Awards Gala. A panel of notables selected Morant as Man of the Year, Wellman-Roebuck as Woman of …

Steven Spencer (BA ’94) has Old Gold and Black running through his veins. His uncle attended Wake Forest as an undergrad and then the Divinity School, and Spencer’s son is named after his Wake Forest college roommate. “Wake Forest has always been in our family,” Spencer explained. “My uncle suggested I visit Wake Forest and …

Chair of the New Hanover County Republican Party, Rhonda K. Amoroso (’85),  has been named to the North Carolina State Board of Elections. Gov. Pat McCrory announced Amoroso as one of the three Republicans who will join the board May 1, 2013. Prior to becoming party chair, Amoroso was vice chair in charge of election …

After nearly a year and a half in jail, Kareem Hasson Turner is a free man.  He had been charged with murder, use of a firearm and robbery in the death of Victor Decker, a Norfolk police officer shot and killed while off duty in 2010. But Monday, prosecutors withdrew the charges, and Turner walked …

Fundraising can be done anywhere. So what drew new Assistant Director of Development Joy Scheidt to Wake Forest Law? Besides her goal for being a part of something successful and wanting to help give back, Scheidt has a personal connection to the law school. “I have a firm respect for what a good attorney can …

Professor John Korzen argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday,  April 23, 2014 in the case, CTS Corp. v. Waldburger. Writer Robert Percival wrote in the SCOTUSblog the article appearing in full below titled, “Argument analysis: Was Congress more “legally sophisticated” than the Justices when it overrode state limitations on lawsuits for toxic exposure?” …

A divided Supreme Court seemed mostly dubious Wednesday that federal claims for environmental damages can be brought after state deadlines have passed, signaling a potential setback for thousands of former Marines and their families exposed decades ago to contaminated water. The little-noticed case before the court concerned corporate liability for land found to be contaminated …

Wake Forest University Chair in Law Professor Sidney Shapiro was quoted in the April 17, 2014, issue of the Bloomberg BNA Occupational Safety & Health Reporter article, “Pending OMB Review, OSHA Could Restart Effort to Update Chemical Exposure Limits.”  Shapiro was quoted on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)’s recent request to gather information on ways …

The  U.S. Supreme Court grappled with abstruse legal terminology today at the heart of an electronics manufacturer’s bid to torpedo a case brought by two dozen North Carolina landowners accusing the company of contaminating their groundwater with industrial solvents. At issue in oral arguments in CTS Corp. v. Waldburger were technicalities in North Carolina state law. On …

This academic year, the Pro Bono Project has teamed up with Novant Health, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice to provide advance directives to patients in-house at these clinics. Each week students pair up with a Womble Carlyle attorney at either the Novant Health Derrick L. Davis Cancer Center, Wake Forest Baptist Cancer …

With the implementation of the Health Insurance Marketplace in October 2013, nearly a dozen Wake Forest Law students have volunteered as Affordable Care Act Navigators. Navigators have gone through more than 25 hours of federal and state training on the ACA and Health Insurance Marketplace. Alongside Legal Aid, Wake Navigators have helped enroll uninsured North Carolinians in communities …

Allison Levene (’14) has been named one of three finalists in the 2014 BARBRI Public Interest Fellow Contest. The winner of the contest will receive a BARBRI Public Interest Fellowship with Save the Children and complimentary BARBRI bar review course. The other two finalists are Catherine Wauters of George Mason Law and Shaundricka Ranel of …

Professor Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University and author of “America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By,”  gave the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Professor Amar discussed the importance and value of the United States Constitution, and the place that it holds within …