WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. –  Wake Forest University School of Divinity hosted a forum and panel discussion on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, about recent events in Ferguson, Mo. The forum was inspired by a need to bring, conversation, connection, and understanding across the Wake Forest student body and wider campus community. “Ferguson: A Discussion on Race, Justice, …

Professor Kami Chavis Simmons, director of the Criminal Justice Program at Wake Forest Law, participated in a panel on Wednesday, Dec. 3, about racial issues. Buildings engulfed in flame, the successive popping and muzzle flashes of gunfire, the chants of enraged protesters: these are the sights and sounds that consumed the streets of Ferguson, Mo., …

Wake Forest University School of Divinity hosted a forum and panel discussion on Wednesday, Dec. 3 in response to the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the grand jury decision that the officer will not face criminal charges. The forum was inspired by a need to bring, conversation, connection, and understanding across …

Winston-Salem was No. 2 among a list of the top 10 affordable cities in a ranking by an online publication, although local officials said they doubted the ranking would make that much difference in their efforts to market the city. The Simple Dollar, which bills itself as a site to help people with their finances, …

Professor Christine Nero Coughlin, director of Wake Forest Law’s Legal Analysis, Writing and Research Program, is among the panelists scheduled for the “Ebola: At Home And Abroad” symposium set for  7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 12-13 in the Kulynych Auditorium of the Byrum Welcome Center at Wake Forest University. The symposium is sponsored by …

Professors Kami Chavis Simmons and Mark Rabil will host a free community cinema screening of “Evolution of a Criminal” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, at Salem College’s Huber Theatre. The executive producer of the film is Spike Lee. The film is directed by Darius Clark Monroe. The documentary explores Monroe’s past, including the circumstances …

Naomi Judd entered Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. greeting the more than 500 attendees with her Southern voice announcing, “Hello North Carolina!” She told the crowd that her husband is from Garner, N.C. so she considers us all ‘cousins’ and is looking forward to some N.C. barbecue. With boundless energy and strikingly beautiful at …

LEXINGTON, N.C. — Susan Sparks (’87), a pastor, comedian and lawyer, will deliver the 2015 Carolyn M. Parker Memorial Preaching/Teaching Lectures on Saturday, Jan. 31, and Sunday, Feb. 1,  at First Baptist Church, West Third Avenue, in Lexington. Sparks will speak three times beginning at 7 p.m. Jan. 31 and 10 a.m. Feb. 1 in …

Catharine Biggs Arrowood (’73, ’76) was featured in the 2015 Super Lawyers North Carolina magazine’s February cover story. The article, “You’re just here to find a husbands,” gives an oral history of North Carolina’s first female attorneys in the 1970s. Some were supported by their family; others had to secretly apply to law school. Some …

The North Carolina Bar Association Executive Director Allan Head (’66, ’69) received the N.C. State Bar’s John B. McMillan Distinguished Service Award on Wednesday, Jan. 22. The award was presented at the annual NCBA-State Bar Dinner held in conjunction with winter meetings of their governing bodies. State Bar President Ron Gibson, flanked by officers Margaret McDermott …

Brandon Barnes (’09) has been getting a lot of face time in his new role with Bloomberg Intelligence as Senior Litigation Analyst – Energy Sector. Today, Barnes reportsedon BP’s legal woes over the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Barnes speaks on “Bottom Line” here. Earlier this month, TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline learned it …

The North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) Board of Governors has voted unanimously to award the H. Brent McKnight Renaissance Lawyer Award to interim Dean Suzanne Reynolds (’77). The award will be presented at the NCBA Annual Meeting on June 19 in Asheville, N.C. Catharine Arrowood (BA ’73, JD ’76), partner at Parker Poe and president …

The rising cost of healthcare is a big budget-buster for many families, and a lot of them fault the Affordable Care Act for straining their finances. But the controversial healthcare law appears to be getting far more blame than it deserves. New analysis by the Commonwealth Fund examines data explaining the biggest increases in healthcare …

Professor John Knox will speak at  the N.C. Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation Symposium on Friday, Jan. 30, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School. The annual symposium, which highlights a topic of growing importance in the field of international law, will focus on the changing relationship between international …

Professor Eugene Mazo published a paper in the 2014 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy entitled, “The Disappearance of Corruption and the New Path Forward in Campaign Finance.” The abstract reads as follows: The reason reformers cloak their plans for changing the campaign finance system in the language of corruption is because of …

The Phi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. provided clothes, food and education to the community for its annual Martin Luther King Day of Service project Monday. The Phi Omega Chapter has a history of honoring King through service, often lending volunteer muscle to causes like the restoration of the historic Odd Fellows …

Live auction scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 5, in Worrell Professional Center The Wake Forest Law annual Public Interest Law Organization (PILO) Auction is set for 4 p.m on Thursday, Feb. 5, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312. An online auction will begin Thursday, Jan. 29, and extend through Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 5 p.m …

Thirty-Two Wake Forest Law students traveled to Nicaragua during January 2015 as part of the Microtrade Development Clinic. Since its launch in 2009, this clinic has connected more than 100 Wake Forest Law students with the emerging economy of Nicaragua. Under the direction of Professor Steve Virgil, student advised MSE’s on U.S. import and commercial …

Teams from Wake Forest University School of Business, School of Law, School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences are creating new startup companies as part of a national competition. These startups are designed to bring inventions to market to could help with a variety of brain therapies. Scott Mcevoy, a JD/MBA, is …