December 17th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
Following Thursday’s column on how to find an immigration law attorney, Margaret Taylor, a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law who specializes in immigration law, wrote in to provide additional suggestions.
December 13th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Michael D. Green, 2012 winner of the John G. Fleming Memorial Prize for Torts Scholarship, delivered the Second Fleming Lecture at Berkeley Law with co-winner William Powers, Jr. of the University of Texas on Monday, Nov. 5. Upon acceptance of the prize, both men presented a lecture entitled “Restating Torts”, largely centered around their outstanding co-report on two core portions of the new Restatement (Third) of Torts, “Restatement Third, Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm“, for which, among other accomplishments, they were being honored.
December 6th, 2012 | Alumni | Comments Off
In this the season of giving, Chris Beechler (’01) will be giving the gift of life this week when he donates a kidney to fellow Winston-Salem lawyer Dave Pishko, who was Beechler’s former professor at Wake Forest law school.
December 6th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
Dean Blake Morant and law school alumnus Kenneth Imo (’00) are named in the On Being a Black Lawyer’s second Annual Power 100 List. The list is a comprehensive catalog of the nation’s most influential black attorneys working in government, academics, and both the public and private sectors.
December 5th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumers saved nearly $1.5 billion in 2011 as a result of rules in President Barack Obama’s health care law that limit what insurance companies can spend on expenses unrelated to medical care, including profit, a new analysis shows. Continue reading »
November 8th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
While many professors, students and faculty alike were enjoying some down time over this year’s fall beak, Wake Forest Law Professor Omari Simmons was using his extra days off to travel to Atlanta with 24 high-achieving high school students from nine area schools on a tour of colleges.
November 5th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
In the developments of the Jessica Ridgeway case that now resides in the courts, one person emerged as a tragic hero: the mother who turned in her own son. Continue reading »
November 1st, 2012 | Student Life | Comments Off
The New York Court of Appeals adopted a rule that requires future New York state bar applicants to complete at least 50 pro bono service hours before they file an application for admission.
October 31st, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
As the presidential candidates clash over the fate of the Affordable Care Act, a set of seven essays by leading legal experts, economists, and scholars examines the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision on the ACA and makes it clear that there is no consensus about what is economically or morally just when it comes to health care coverage in this country. The essays appear in the Hastings Center Report.* Continue reading »
October 30th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
As our national debt mounts, nothing is sending those numbers higher than the increase in healthcare costs. Continue reading »
