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(Winston-Salem, N.C., March 16, 2020) — Due to COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), the LGBTQ+ Legal Services Clinic is postponed until Fall 2020. For complete information on the University’s ongoing plans surrounding the coronavirus, visit coronavirus.wfu.edu. ORIGINAL RELEASE (Winston-Salem, N.C., Feb. 19, 2020) — Wake Forest School of Law will host a legal services clinic for members of the LGBTQ+ …

(Winston-Salem, N.C., Feb. 11, 2019) — The Wake Forest Business Law Program (BLP) will host Claire DeMatteis, commissioner of the Delaware Department of Corrections, as a distinguished guest of the Sager Speaker Series. She will join the Wake Forest Law community at noon on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in room 1312 of the Worrell Professional …

(Winston-Salem, N.C., Feb. 11, 2020) — The Wake Forest University School of Law National Trial Team was named the Region 5 champions of the Texas Young Lawyers Association (TYLA) National Trial Competition. The Demon Deacons will travel to the 2020 TYLA National Trial Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. “Our law students have a well-established reputation …

(Winston-Salem, N.C., Nov. 18, 2019) — The Wake Forest National Moot Court Team ended its 2019-2020 campaign during the semi-final rounds of the National Moot Court Competition’s Region IV Tournament. Wake Forest was one of only four teams to go undefeated during the preliminary rounds of the tournament with the team of third-year law students …

Sophie Robart (JD ’20) interned with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts in the Economic Crimes Unit and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) in Washington D.C. Both of these experiences reinforced her passion for criminal law. Where do you call home? Cornwall, Vt. Where did you study …

Henna Shah (JD ’21) was able to take her legal passions and practice to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during her first summer in law school. Where do you call home? San Antonio, Texas Where did you study for your undergraduate degree? I attended the University of Texas at Austin. There, I received …

During the summer of 2013, Brandon Paul (JD ’20) was able to watch the Trials of Daryl Hunt with a surprise Q&A with Hunt and Professor Mark Rabil. This experience inspired him to take part in the Innocence and Justice Clinic at Wake Forest Law. Where do you call home? Lexington, North Carolina Where did …

Julia Adams-Scheurich (MSL ’21) is a contract lobbyist and policy consultant in North Carolina’s capital city. That means she spends much of her time researching proposed legislation and meeting with lawmakers. It also means finding herself in the rooms where it happens, working on complicated bills full of technical language and legal terminology. “I love …

Members of the Wake Forest Law faculty have moved up eight spots on the “Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2018: Updating the Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third“ by Gregory C. Sisk (St. Thomas) et al. The updated 2018 study explores the scholarly impact of law faculties, ranking the top third of American Bar …

Wake Forest Law Professors Ron Wright, Kami Chavis and Gregory Parks have collected statistics about felony trial jury selection across North Carolina’s 100 counties as part of their research regarding jury selection. This overall research effort is known as the “Jury Sunshine Project.” The researchers have produced a database — the first of its kind — of jury …

In 1998, “Saving Private Ryan,” “Armageddon,” “Titanic,” and “There’s Something About Mary” were among the five biggest films of the year, and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” was published for the first time in the United States. It was the same year attorney Mark Rabil began working on the John Robert Hayes case. The …

A collegially competitive spirit thrives among Wake Forest Law students. You may hear it most loudly when it comes to oral advocacy. When many people think of a lawyer, they envision a trial lawyer. They dream of the heroes and heroines of the court that have been made famous by literature and film and popular …