Posted: March 10th, 2016 | By: Lisa Snedeker
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Wake Forest University School of Law will become home to the newest North Carolina Business Court, state officials announced Wednesday, March 9.
The newest courtroom should be ready to take cases in January 2017, according to Wake Forest Law Dean Suzanne Reynolds (JD ‘77). Continue reading »
Posted: February 22nd, 2016 | By: Rachel Wallen
Members of Wake Forest Law’s Pro Bono Project will present “Know Your Rights” at 2 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, for the entire student body at Parkland High School.
Posted: February 17th, 2016 | By: Lindsey Gallinek
Wake Forest Law’s Elder Law Clinic, led by Professor Kate Mewhinney, is co-sponsoring the “Aging Re-Imagined,” symposium on March 17-18 in different locations around the Wake Forest University campus.
Posted: February 17th, 2016 | By: Lindsey Gallinek
Wake Forest Law students, faculty, staff and alumni aim to take home the first-place prize for a third year in a row in the 2016 North Carolina Legal Feeding Frenzy. In the past two years, Wake Forest Law won the competition sponsored by the North Carolina Bar Association with 15.98 pounds of food per person in 2015 and 21.3 pounds per person in 2014.
Posted: February 16th, 2016 | By: Rachel Wallen
Kalvin Michael Smith has served 18 years in prison for a crime he says he was nowhere near and knew nothing about. At 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 17, Stephen Boyd of the Wake Forest University department of religion and the Rev. Kelly P. Carpenter of Green Street United Methodist Church will be co-telling Smith’s story, prior to a student-led rally at Winston-Salem State University on Thursday, Feb. 18.
Posted: February 4th, 2016 | By: Michael Hewlett
Wake Forest Law’s Federalist Society, as well as the Criminal Law Roundtable and the Criminal Justice Program, hosted an event featuring Washington Post reporter and author Radley Balko to discuss the increasing militarization of American police officers. The event was covered in the Winston-Salem Journal by Michael Hewlett here. The original story follow.
Posted: February 3rd, 2016 | By: Lindsey Gallinek
Wake Forest Law’s Public Interest Law Organization (PILO) will host its 2nd Annual Golf Tournament at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 2, 2016 at the Bermuda Run Country Club West Course in Advance, N.C.
Posted: February 3rd, 2016 | By: Lindsey Gallinek
Wake Forest Law is co-sponsoring “Truth, Lies and Politics: Ideology, Rationality and Choice in an Election Year” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 16, in Wait Chapel.
Posted: January 26th, 2016 | By: Richard Craver
The following story was originally written by Winston-Salem Journal reporter Richard Craver and ran here. A recording of the web cast of the event can be accessed here.
A group of health care experts acknowledged Monday that Medicaid expansion is at least a year away from serious consideration in General Assembly.
However, they stressed at a forum at Wake Forest University Law School that expansion for an additional 500,000 North Carolinians doesn’t have to wait until the potential completion of Medicaid reform. Continue reading »
Posted: January 15th, 2016 | By: Rachel Wallen
In 1990, George H.W. Bush was president, the World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) was created, the cost of a Superbowl ad was $700,000 and ground was broken on the Worrell Professional Center.
