Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby of the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals will give the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture at noon on Tuesday, March 27, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312.Blackburne-Rigsby was sworn in as Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on March 17, 2017, according to the District of Columbia Courts …

Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP LDF)’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will speak to students and staff as part of Wake Forest School of Law’s “Conversation With” speaker series at noon on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312. The …

Raina Haque, an adjunct professor at Wake Forest School of Law, will discuss blockchain technology at TEDx Wake Forest that will be held from 12-4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, in Wait Chapel. This year’s  TEDx theme, “The Broken Box,” will draw speakers who have “broken boxes” by redefining boundaries within their respective fields. TEDx …

Chris Salemme (JD ‘17) wrote the following story, “Reshaping the legal profession for the millennial generation,” which was originally published in the North State Journal on April 18, 2018. The North Carolina Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism is taking note of how a new generation of lawyers are reworking the legal field. At its quarterly meeting on …

Wake Forest University Associate Provost Kami Chavis, professor of law and director of the law school’s Criminal Justice Program, participated in a panel discussion at the National Forum of Black Public Administrators (NFBPA) on Friday, April 20, 2018, in Cleveland, Ohio. The panel and roundtable at the event, which continued through April 22, were focused …

As part of Earth Week, the Wake Forest School of Law will host a moderated panel discussion about environmental and natural resources law and policy under the Trump Administration entitled, “Celebrating Earth Week: Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy with the Trump Administration,” from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, in …

Some 175 Winston-Salem area residents learned more about recent changes in the laws in North Carolina regarding expungements at a Wake Forest School of Law Expungement Clinic information session held in partnership with the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Minister’s Conference of Winston-Salem on Feb. …

The BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism will host former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich (JD ’82) at 4 p.m Wednesday, April 18, in the Broyhill Auditorium in Farrell Hall. His presentation, which is free and open to the public, is entitled “Freedom At Risk: 2016 Elections and Stakes Going Forward.”    During his lecture, Ehrlich will …

Wake Forest School of Law alumni are featured regularly in the media. Following is a roundup of news mentions from March 2018: David Parsons (JD ’86) was featured in Outer Banks Sentinel on March 6: David Parsons, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) spokesman David Parsons, a longtime resident of the Outer Banks, …

Daniel Gibson (JD ‘15) may have been the youngest practicing attorney in North Carolina when he started working as an associate at Cannon Law in Statesville in September 2015.Born in Australia — the accent typically only surfaces when he is really animated about making a point — Gibson grew up in Cary, North Carolina. He …

Chris Salemme (JD ’17) has had the article, “Unpatriotic Profit: How For-Profit Colleges Target Veterans and What the Government Must Do to Stop Them,” published in the Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law. The article ”explores the for-profit education industry, its history of deceitful recruitment of veterans, the federal government’s attempts at reform, and what …

Professor Laura Graham (JD ’94), director of the Legal Analysis, Writing, & Research Program, has been elected to serve a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD). ALWD is a non-profit professional association of directors of legal reasoning, research, writing, analysis, and advocacy programs from law schools …

Professor Mark Rabil,  director of Wake Forest School of Law’s Innocence and Justice Clinic, is featured in a new movie, “In Pursuit of Justice,” which is playing as part of Winston-Salem’s anual RiverRun Film Festival and will be shown at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 20, at SECCA and 4 p.m. on Friday, April 28, at Hanesbrand Theatre. …

Professor Harold Lloyd will speak on the “Role of Legal Writing Faculty in Encouraging Doctrinal Faculty to Incorporate Legal Writing into Curricula” panel on Saturday, April 21, 2018, at the weekend-long conference “Beyond the First Year” hosted by DePaul University College of Law. The conference will focus on legal writing instruction beyond the basic first-year Legal, Research, and …

On Tuesday, April 17, students and faculty members will gather to discuss this semester’s “Dining Dilemma” topic of “Going Viral: 1918 Flu Pandemic in Winston-Salem and Beyond” from 6-8 p.m. at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. During her talk, Professor Christine Nero Coughlin (JD ’90) will explore bioethics and building community. Each semester, Dining Dilemmas encourage students …

The Wake Forest Law Review presented its annual awards at its Dan McGinn Law Review Closing Dinner held on Tuesday, April 17,  2018, at the Forsyth Country Club. The dinner is named in honor of previous editor of the Law Review Dan McGinn (BA ’64, JD ’67). The dinner, which was attended by its namesake, …

The members of the Wake Forest School of Law Class of 2018 have chosen Professor Ralph Peeples  and Alex Teixeira  (JD ’18) to be the speakers for the law school’s Hooding Ceremony on Sunday, May 20. The graduates also voted for Professor Rebecca Morrow as Teacher of the Year and for Registrar Records Assistant Amy Cecil as …

Four student organizations will address issues surrounding the #MeToo movement, domestic violence, and sexual assault at two separate noon events on Wednesday, April 18, in the Worrell Professional Center. Both events are free and open to the public. Members of the student groups Domestic Violence Awareness Coalition (DVAC)  and If/When/How  will co-host a panel discussion …

Wake Forest School of Law has for the fifth year in a row won the North Carolina Bar Association’s North Carolina Legal Feeding Frenzy. The 2018 event saw more than 373,018 pounds of food collected — 66,000 more pounds of food than in 2017, according to organizers. Wake Forest law school was the largest contributor per capita in …