Wake Forest School of Law has been ranked among the top schools for healthcare law by Law Street Media. Wake Forest Law is among 57  law schools to receive honorable mentions in the category. This list represents the first of five specialty rankings scheduled to be released this summer. The rankings focus on key specialties in …

The Wake Forest University School of Law will confer hoods on its largest class of international graduates on May 18-19, 2014. The Hooding Program is scheduled to begin at 1:45 p.m. on Sunday, May 18, in Wait Chapel. Thirty international Master of Laws in American Law degree (LLM) candidates, Juris Doctor (JD) candidates, and Master …

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 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 …

Funeral service details have been announced for David H. Wagner, Jr. (’68), who died on Sunday, July 13, 2014. Wagner was one of the first African-American graduates of the Wake Forest University School of Law. According to his obituary, Wagner was born July 23, 1926, in Davidson County to David and Pearlie Mae Thomas Wagner. …

Chief Justice John C. Martin (’67) of the N.C. Court of Appeals is retiring effective Aug. 1. Martin has served on the Court of Appeals for more than a decade. Judge Martin’s record of service on the bench began in 1977 when he became a Superior Court judge for the 14th Judicial District in his native …

Megan Baldwin (’10) is a self-described lawyer turned stay-at-home mom living in Durham, N.C., with her husband, Matthew, and twin girls, Emma and Charlotte, according to her Huffington Post blog. She is currently licensed to practice law in North Carolina. Her first column is entitled “Why I Couldn’t Have It All.” The following is an …

While many businesses in the Golden Crescent have seen slow but steady growth after weathering the recession, some companies are managing through dramatic growth. Reporter Dave Friedman talked to three  thriving outfits about what spurred their success and how they’ve dealt with increased demand. Six new people have joined the Charlotte law offices of Moretz …

Do IRC Sections 174 and 41 Really Matter

Professor Kami Chavis Simmons was interviewed on HuffPo Live on July 21, 2014 regarding the death of Eric Garner after police officers put him in a chokehold. Controversy hit the New York Police Department last week after the death of New York “gentle giant” Eric Garner, who can be seen in several videos struggling as police …

A Florida state jury is trying to send a message about tobacco manufacturers’ past marketing strategies by handing R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. a $23.6 billion punitive damages award Friday. Investors, however, appear to have dismissed worries about the potential hit to Reynolds’ economic health that represents 75 percent of its current market capitalization. Reynolds’ share …

In the spring of 2011, I saw a piece in The New York Times about a steam-powered automobile, the Paxton Phoenix.  The car had been developed by Robert Paxton McCulloch, heir to the McCulloch chainsaw fortune.  He initiated the project in 1949, and finally abandoned it in 1954.  According to the sole, surviving member of …

Wake Forest Law is among the nation’s Top 20 law schools for the most federal judicial clerkships, according to U.S. News and World Report. U.S. News recently published two exclusive clerkship lists of law schools using data from its 2015 Best Law Schools rankings for the 2012 J.D. graduating class. Wake Forest tied with Emory University for No. …

Hometown:  Ramsey, N.J. Undergraduate school and major: I graduated from New York University with a major in Politics and a minor in Economics. I focused my studies on political economy. Why I chose Wake Forest School of Law: While there were several considerations that went into my decision, one of the determining factors was Wake Forest Law’s …

Wake Forest Law ranks among the top Intellectual Property Law programs in a new set of comprehensive rankings released this week by Law Street Media. Wake Forest Law is among 57 law schools to receive an honorable mention in the Law Street Specialty Rankings. Law Street’s rankings for Intellectual Property programs are the first of …

Congratulations to the latest 2014 Spring Elder Law Clinic class. Students had quite a range of  interview experiences this semester including understanding a disturbed military veteran to talking with clients that are in hospital beds. Elder Law Clinic students learned to surmount language differences and to figure out how best to communicate with those who have memory …