Winter 2013-2014

  • CLE Spotlights Power of Board Service in Career Building

    CLE Spotlights Power of Board Service in Career Building

    More than two dozen law school alums gathered at Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney Nov. 21 for “The Board as Springboard,” a CLE that explored service on charitable boards as a strategy for building a legal career.

    Board service benefits attorneys in many ways, like providing avenues for expanding one’s professional network, said Carl Buchholz, a partner at DLA Piper and former special assistant for homeland security who chaired the board of the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania and serves on boards that include the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and the Committee of Seventy.

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  • Expanded Pro Bono Opportunities Benefit Community and Students

    Expanded Pro Bono Opportunities Benefit Community and Students

    The Pro Bono Service Program is growing, with the addition of new opportunities to serve the community in more ways than ever. 

    The law school has launched an unprecedented partnership with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and Philadelphia Legal Assistance to provide free legal service to patients at a public health center in West Philadelphia.

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  • Adam Busler, '13

    Home Early

    Atlantic City native Adam Busler, ’13, did not expect to leave behind the excitement of Philadelphia at the very start of his legal career.

    But when a job offer came along to join Fox Rothschild’s Atlantic City Office, he happily headed back to the Jersey shore, where he always hoped he would eventually return.

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  • Stephen Kulp

    The Six-Year Sprint

    It may be true that all law students grab for the brass ring, but some are clearly in a bigger hurry than others.

    Stephen Kulp, ‘13, is among a handful of students who started at the law school just three summers after his high school senior prom.  And now, at age 25, he’s working on 74 construction, products liability, sexual abuse and medical malpractice cases for Laffey, Bucci & Kent LLP, in Center City.

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  • Law School to Offer New Programs

    Law School Diversifies and Enhances Academic Programs

    In 2014, the law school is expanding the variety of programs with the addition of an accelerated JD program, a professional practice requirement for all JD students and a Master of Legal Studies program that features a special benefit for law school alumni.

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  • Class Notes Winter 2013-2014

    Find out what your classmates have been up to lately.

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