The fourth annual BarCares Law School Roundtable dinner was held at Wake Forest University School of Law on Thursday, Feb. 16.  BarCARES, a service provided by the North Carolina Bar Association, is a confidential, short-term intervention program provided cost-free to members of local bar groups and students, faculty and staff of law schools which have “opted in.”   Event Leader Ann [...]

The North Carolina Court of Appeals will hold oral arguments in two cases at the Wake Forest University School of Law beginning at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 7,  in Room 1312 of the Worrell Professional Center. The judges will be Chief Judge John C. Martin and Judges Robert C. Hunter and Linda Stephens. The court will [...]

The best lawyers are good story tellers, says Raleigh criminal defense attorney Wade Smith. “Justice (Carlisle) Higgins taught me that every case tells a story and the person who tells the best story wins,” he said. “In order to be a good lawyer, you have to be a great story teller.” Smith proved during his [...]

Wake Forest University School of Law will host the 2012 Cook Elementary Speech Contest, sponsored by Kilpatrick Townsend, at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 11, in Room 1312 of the Worrell Professiona Center. Judges include the law school’s Dean Blake Morant and Ivey Brown, assistant university attorney at Winston-Salem State University. The fourth graders from Cook Elementary School took a field [...]

The Elder Law Clinic will co-host an elder investment fraud and financial exploitation prevention program  for health care providers from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Friday, March 23, at the Sticht Center Auditorium in the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The event, “Recognizing and Reporting Suspected Finacial Abuse in Your Older Patients,” is free and open to the public but [...]

For this year’s annual survey of law school home pages, Roger Skalbeck, Associate Law Librarian for Electronic Resources & Services at Georgetown Law Library, applied 24 criteria across three broad categories to evaluate all ABA-accredited law school website home pages for his ranking of the 10 best law school home pages. Read the full story here.

Professor Sally Irvin will speak at the Wake Forest University Hypertension Center’s Red Dress Seminar on Monday, Feb. 27. The seminar is meant to raise awareness of women’s heart health, and will feature cake and prizes for those dressed in red. The event will be held in the commons meeting rooms of the Bowman Grey [...]

When discussing her life-changing — and life-affirming — decision to donate a kidney to a stranger, Nicole DuPre (’10) of Winston-Salem can alternate between sounding nonchalant and as serious as an IRS audit. “They’re just lopping it out of me,” DuPre said the other day over lunch. “She’s facing a tougher battle. I’m really more [...]

Kenneth Imo (’02) speaks about Wake Forest University with a reverence rooted in the school’s culture of community, in particular the way it fosters interaction among students and professors. It was his first home in North Carolina, a place where he learned to become a lawyer and a place where he formed and nurtured life-long [...]

Two alumni of the Wake Forest University School of Law are the recipients of awards from the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina. Robert “Hoppy” Elliott (’77) has been named the 2012 winner of the Frank Porter Award and Kristin Parks (’95) won the Paul Green Award. An awards ceremony was held on Saturday, [...]

On Tuesday, Veronica Filipowski, the ex-wife of former Winston-Salem Dash team co-owner Andrew “Flip” Filipowski, sat in a room full of Wake Forest law students and listened to arguments in a case about the collapse of her marriage. She had sued Melissa Oliver for damages in Forsyth County Superior Court under the state’s alienation of [...]

The Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy is co-hosting a symposium exploring the repercussions of the First Circuit’s seminal decision in Milward v. Acuity Specialty Products with the Center for Progressive Reform on Thursday, May 17, in Washington, D.C. In Milward, the First Circuit became the first court – either federal or state – [...]

So North Carolina has a marriage amendment in its constitution. What now? For starters, the debate isn’t over. Gay-marriage proponents have vowed to use organizational ties forged in the amendment fight to keep their issues in the public eye. They started last week, sending gay couples to county offices to request marriage licenses the couples [...]

Professor Michael Curtis tells the Fayetteville Observer that generally constitutional amendments can’t be unconstitutional under the constitution they are amending but that the U.S. Supreme Court has the power to overturn the constitutional ban on same-sex unions. On Tuesday the vote, on Wednesday the aftermath. As supporters of the constitutional ban on same-sex unions rejoiced in its [...]

Professor Tanya Marsh will be part of the ABA’s “Professor’s Corner” teleconference a 12:30 EST on Wednesday, May 9, to discuss Roundy’s Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board. The ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section’s Legal Education and Uniform Laws Group offers a free monthly teleconference, “Professor’s Corner,” in which a panel of three law professors [...]

The Wake Forest University School of Law conferred hoods on 165 graduates on Sunday, May 20, in Wait Chapel. The law school’s 38th annual hooding speaker, Senior Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy, told the graduates and their families and friends “that a lawyer’s integrity is something you need to protect for [...]

Jess Kimble (’12) grew up on a farm in rural Ohio where she canned food and sold green beans to her aunt’s grocery store for 69 cents a pound. She left Ohio for Wake Forest University School of Law because she was impressed with the number of clinics the school offered–and the opportunities available in [...]

The Pro Bono Project at Wake Forest University School of Law partnered with Advanced Placement to help jumpstart the program, Reclaiming Futures, in Forsyth County.  Reclaiming Futures is a nationwide project that strives to help young people who struggled with drugs, alcohol, and crime by partnering juveniles with positive, caring adults to serve as their [...]

Every spring semester, Wake Forest University School of Law LL.M. students have the opportunity to hear oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.  This year, Professor Shannon Gilreath led the students to visit the high court on Wednesday, April 18. While in Washington, D.C., the law school’s Afghan LL.M. candidate, Yama Keshawerz, was invited to attend [...]