Posted: September 6th, 2017 | By: Lisa Snedeker
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 been part of the Children’s Law Center of Central North Carolina since its inception in 1996.
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Posted: September 1st, 2017 | By: Lisa Snedeker
Wake Forest School of Law’s newest students for the 2017-18 academic year include 152 JDs and 28 international students from 15 countries, including Ukraine, Brazil, China, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, Kosovo, Nigeria, England, Lithuania, Italy, Turkey and Japan, across four programs — LL.M., SJD, Two-Year JD and Visiting International Researcher (VIR).
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Posted: August 16th, 2017 | By: Lisa Snedeker
Wake Forest School of Law students participating in the
Washington, D.C., Summer Judicial Externship Program had a busy summer clerking in some of the nation’s most vibrant courts as well as taking field trips to Quantico, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, the Federal Circuit and networking with alumni.
Posted: August 14th, 2017 | By: Lisa Snedeker
Members of the incoming Wake Forest Law JD Class of 2020 along with international students, faculty and staff will give back to their new community by volunteering at a Habitat for Humanity site in Winston-Salem on Tuesday, Aug. 15, and Thursday, Aug. 17.
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Posted: August 3rd, 2017 | By: Caitlin Herlihy
Jonathan Buchan of Essex Richards P.A. will give the Wake Forest University annual Constitution Day lecture at noon on Thursday, Sept. 14, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312. In addition to serving as an adjunct professor at Wake Forest School of Law, the longtime media lawyer and business litigator has represented The Charlotte Observer and The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. He will address, “Free Speech Under Siege: The Importance of Freedom of the Press in a Free Society.” The event, which includes a light lunch, is open to all Wake Forest University students, faculty and staff.
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Posted: August 2nd, 2017
The Business Law Program is pleased to announce the distinguished 2017-18 Sager Speaker Series invitees:
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Posted: August 2nd, 2017 | By: Lisa Snedeker
A Wake Forest Law trial advocacy team is once again among 16 teams chosen to compete in the 2017 Tournament of Champions (TOC), sponsored by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA). The competition, which will run Nov. 1-4, 2017, will be held in downtown Los Angeles at the new Federal Courthouse on the Loyola Law School campus. Continue reading »
Posted: June 29th, 2017
Wake Forest University’s fully online Master of Studies in Law (MSL) degree and certificate program’s innovative telemedicine course is the first of its kind to be taught in a law school, according to the American Telemedicine Association.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2017 | By: Lisa Snedeker
After completing her first two semesters of Wake Forest Law’s online Master of Studies in Law (MSL) degree, Senior Associate Director of Information Technology Karen Frekko (MSL ’18) says she has found “a new set of tools” in her toolbox.
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Posted: June 16th, 2017
Bilingual Wake Forest Law students volunteered in the Family Preparedness Project, a new initiative led by the Pro Bono Project that seeks to provide durable powers of attorney for individuals in North Carolina who may be at risk of deportation. Student coordinators, Emily Scotton (JD ’18) and Vanessa Garrido (JD ’18), organized client appointments at the Downtown Health Plaza in Winston-Salem over the course of four evenings in April.
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