December

    • Trial Team Triumphs

      December 14, 2012

      For the second year in a row, members of the Trial Team gathered in the Dean’s Suite to drink champagne and bask in the school’s rising reputation as a star in the firmament of mock trial competitions.

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    • From a Ripple to a Wave

      December 14, 2012

      When Nate Howard signed up for Professor Karl Okamoto’s Law and Entrepreneurship class, little did he know that he’d play a role in opening a clinic for start-ups that would one day launch a new business that would hire him as its corporate counsel just one year later. If only he’d had a crystal ball.

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    • Blazing a Trail to the "Dream Job"

      December 14, 2012

      Alumnus John Kuehne credits the law school’s Co-op Program with transplanting him from a job often associated with digging to a job he really digs.

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    • School Launches Criminal Law Concentration

      December 14, 2012

      Harnessing existing strengths in criminal law, the school will allow students to concentrate in this area of legal practice, starting with the Class of 2014.

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    • Learning the Law Measure for Measure

      December 14, 2012

      As the son of professional musicians, Peter McCall long ago accepted the fact that skills like playing the cello with perfection do not come easily.

      But as a kid, McCall studied the cello for long enough to appreciate how much can be learned through practice, practice and more practice.

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    • Friends of the Court

      December 14, 2012

      Not many law students have their homework read by justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, but two 3Ls wrote an amicus brief this fall that went before the nation’s highest tribunal.

      Rachel King and Nick Verna wrote an amicus — or "friend of the court" — brief in the case of an employer that sought reimbursement for medical expenses it had paid on behalf of a worker who was seriously hurt in a car accident.

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