Wake Forest Law welcomed U.S. Army Capt. Florent “Flo” Groberg to the Worrell Professional Center on Wednesday, March 15. His presentation, “Opportunities Earned and Leadership Learned: An American Hero’s Journey,” was co-sponsored by Bank of America in an effort to raise financial support and student engagement for the Veterans Legal Clinic. Capt. Groberg also made a …

Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, the National Jurist has named Wake Forest Law among the nation’s “greenest” law schools in its Spring 2017 edition. The magazine ranked Wake Forest Law the ninth greenest law school in the country. “More and more law schools are walking the walk, not just talking the talk. We identify …

Wake Forest Law professors will follow up Feb. 2′s panel discussion on “What Will Happen in the Trump Administration?” with a second panel discussion focusing on climate change, immigration and health and safety regulations at noon on Monday, Feb. 13, in Room 1312 of the Worrell Professional Center. For those who can’t attend in person, …

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral arguments in three cases beginning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 20, at Wake Forest University School of Law in the North Carolina Business Court on the third floor of the Worrell Professional Center. The cases to be heard involve employment, criminal …

Wake Forest School of Law will hold a 40-hour Superior Court Civil Action (MSC) training program from Tuesday, Oct. 10, through Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017.  The program runs each day from 8:30 a.m to 6:30 p.m. Course faculty include Ellen R. Gelbin, course developer and planner and primary North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission certified trainer; …

Francie Scott (JD ’04) has been promoted to fill the new position of Assistant Dean for Career and Professional Development. Scott was named interim director of the Office of Career and Professional Development in the May following the departure of Kim Fields, who served as director of the department for 16 years and resigned to …

Dean Emeritus and retired Professor of Law John “Don” Scarlett, 93, died on July 10, 2017, after an extended illness. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, July 17, at First Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem. The family will receive friends following the service in the fellowship hall. Dean Scarlett joined the …

Wake Forest School of Law graduates had the highest overall bar passage rate (which includes repeaters) at 86 percent among North Carolina law schools for the North Carolina bar exam in July 2017. That’s compared with a state overall passage rate of 62 percent, according to the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners. Wake Forest graduates …

Brinkley Walser Stoner attorney Roy L. McDonald II (JD ’00), a major in the U.S. Army Reserve and Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, has been selected to serve as the Deputy Command Judge Advocate for the 166th Regional Support Group “Taino Warriors,” located at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico.  The Deputy Command Judge Advocate is the …

Leary Davis (BA ’64, JD ’67),  founding dean of the law schools at Campbell and Elon universities, died on July 20, 2017, of leukemia and Hodgkin’s lymphoma at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. He was 75. He is believed to be the only person to be the founding dean of two law schools, according to …

As a student working in Wake Forest Law’s Elder Law Clinic, Marcus Fields (BA ’10, JD ’16) watched a client struggle to balance his full-time job with overseeing his mother’s care in a local nursing home, while also selling her home in another part of the state. The man made a common error that could …

Professor Alan Palmiter, Wake Forest University’s presidential chair for Business Law, will be the keynote speaker at the Abraham L. Pomerantz Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, at Brooklyn Law School.  The event, which runs from 5 to 7 p.m. and is hosted by the school’s Center for the Study of Business Law and Regulation (CSBLR) …

Professor Andrew Verstein authored the following article, “Insider Tainting: Strategic Tipping of Material Non-Public Information,” published on Oxford Business Law Blog on Sept. 20, 2017. Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog also published a version oft Professor Verstein’s piece on Sept. 14, 2017. In an article forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review, I analyze the strategic …

Professor Andrew Verstein authored the following article, “The Corporate Governance of National Security,” published on the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog on Sept. 14, 2017.  The CLS Blue Sky Blog focuses on Corporations and the Capital Markets. A central goal of corporate law is to make managers accountable to shareholders. So it may come …

Wake Forest University School of Law faculty, students and staff are quoted regularly in the media. Following are the media mentions for the week of Sept. 15, 2017. Borenstein: Contra Costa replaces perjurer with plagiarist as DA East Bay Times Sept. 15 “Courts have labeled lawyers’ plagiarism in court filings as ‘reprehensible,’ ‘intolerable,’ ‘completely unacceptable,’ …

The Wake Forest School of Law Business Law Program (BLP) and Business Law Society will present Kenneth R. Feinberg on Thursday, Sept. 28, as part of the distinguished Sager Speaker Series. The event, which is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312,  is free and open to the public. Pizza will …

Wake Forest University School of Law students and faculty have created a first-of-its-kind online graduate school journal that explores the growing field of bioethics. “Awaken: The Creative Journal of Contemporary Bioethics” is dedicated to exploring and understanding the field of bioethics through the publication of creative, fictionalized short stories. The stories published in “Awaken” utilize …

Wake Forest Law continues to expand its practical courses and international program offerings with a new externship program in Geneva, Switzerland, beginning spring semester of 2018. Professor John Knox, an internationally recognized expert on human rights and international environmental law, says,  “I think to some degree it’s an experiment, but it’s something we need to …

The Children’s Law Center of Central North Carolina will host its annual Birthday Blast on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017.  The fundraising event will be held at The Millennium Center in downtown Winston-Salem and feature musical guest The Unbroken Circle, a multi-generation string band of Wake Forest University. Wake Forest School of Law’s Child Advocacy Clinic has …