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 [...]

A true free market, says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., fosters efficiency and encourages us to properly value our natural resources. In a true free market, he says, people can’t become rich without also enriching their neighbors and enriching their communities. “What polluters do is they make themselves rich by making everybody else poor. They raise [...]

It started with a dragon made from recycled packaging materials. Michael Greene, who works in the Professional Center Library, had twisted the brown paper and added some colorful details to create the 8-foot long mythical beast. His colleague, Maureen Eggert, an associate director of the library, saw it and enlisted the help of Angie Hobbs, reference [...]

Jay Shively, assistant dean of admissions and financial aid at Wake Forest University School of Law, says he tells applicants in the story, “5 Tips for Current or Prospective Law School Students in a Difficult Economy,” to ignore law schools’ self-declared specializations, because many students change their minds about what kind of law they want to practice [...]

The American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Section (LPM) announced the winners of its first-ever LPM Law Video Awards  during the  third bi-annual ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference on Nov. 8 in Philadelphia. The law school’s video, Wake Forest Law Alumni in New York City, received second place in the Legal Organizations/Legal Vendors category. First place [...]

Wake Forest University School of Law has been named among the finalists in the inaugural American Bar Association’s Law Video Awards.  The awards presentation is part of the ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference 2011, which will be held in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Nov. 8.  The “Law Video Awards” are hosted by the ABA’s Law [...]

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 [...]

For longer than she’s been an attorney, Christy Myatt (’79, ’82) has helped injured skiers travel safely down the mountains of western North Carolina. The skills she uses in her part-time ski patrol job carry over to her full-time position as a bankruptcy attorney at Nexsen Pruet. “Both [jobs] deal with emergency situations, taking care [...]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Broward County‘s first Asian-American judge was formally sworn in on Friday during a judicial robing ceremony at the state courthouse. Circuit Judge Raag Singhal (’89), whose parents emigrated from India to the U.S. in 1960, three years before he was born, is only the third Asian-American judge in the state. Singhal, [...]

When Charlie Trefzger (‘84) was a teenager, his maternal grandmother gave him a portrait of a starchy Victorian gentleman she had found in the attic and said, “This is the last lawyer in the family, and you are the next.” His grandmother gave him the mandate to become a lawyer, but Trefzger said it was [...]

As part of Black History Month, Professor Beth Hopkins will discuss African-American women who are not as well-known historically, but who have had an important place in the history of the steps leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education case and the aftermath of Brown from 3:00-4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 21, in the Z. Smith [...]

Wake Forest University School of Law Professor Kami Chavis Simmons will participate in the symposium, “Control of Police Misconduct in a Post-Exclusionary Rule World: Can it be Done?,” hosted by the St. Louis University School of Law on Friday, Feb. 24.  Simmons will be participating on a panel entitled, “Departmental Level Efforts to Achieve Accountability,” [...]

Professor John Korzen (’91) developed a love for writing when he was a teenager, a love that eventually led him to the law and legal writing.  Korzen, who heads the Appellate Advocacy Clinic for 3Ls and teaches Legal Writing to 1Ls and 2Ls, is an experienced appellate lawyer who joined the faculty in 2003. “I [...]

NEW YORK –  While GPS technology has gained favor with American consumers by providing precise driving directions, the lack of specific instructions in a recent Supreme Court opinion has experts disagreeing over whether police are now required to obtain a warrant before affixing a GPS-tracking device to a suspect’s car. The Supreme Court made front-page headlines [...]

The Wake Forest University School of Law Domestic Violence Advocacy Center is hosting its annual raffle from 9:30-11:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Old Winston Social Club. Domestic violence impacts the lives of many of our friends and neighbors, according to Anna Penland, event organizer and DVAC member.  “More than 20,000 people in our community seek [...]

The Wake Forest University School of Law Veterans Advocacy Law Organization (VALOR) hosted a free legal clinic for 30 area veterans on Friday, Feb. 3. VALOR began at Wake Forest University School of Law last year when several veteran law students recognized a need at the law school for an organization dedicated to addressing veterans’ [...]

The Wake Forest International Environmental Moot Court Team competed in the Stetson International Moot Court Competition hosted by the American University Washington School of Law in Washington, D.C., Feb. 3-5.  There were nine teams in the Atlantic Regional Competition from as far away as Trinidad, including Wake Forest’s team participants Anna Dowdy, Morgan McCall and [...]

This year’sannual Public Interest Law Organization (PILO) Charity Auction at the Wake Forest University School of Law succeeded in raising more than $10,000 to benefit students’ pro bono legal work. “I think people had a good time, and we were able to raise money for a good cause,” said PILO auction organizer Aisha Forte (’12).  [...]