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The law school community gathered Dec. 15, 2016, to recognize 10 students who completed their legal studies a semester early while, in the words of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Dean Luke Bierman, “leaving this place better than you found it.”

The Maurice Jennings Emerging Scholar and an associate professor at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law died Dec. 7, 2016, following a lengthy illness.

Carrie Vickery L'09 will be the first ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law alumna to preside from a bench after winning her campaign this month to serve residents of Forsyth County as a District Court judge.

The Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series presented by the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation returns for ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s 10th anniversary year with a November 2016 visit by NBC correspondent Ronan Farrow, followed in April 2017 by retired U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

More than 120 attorneys, students, faculty, staff and alumni took part in October's sixth annual Immigration Law Seminar hosted by ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic.

Amber Allen L'14 and Haynes Dallas G'05 L'09 will serve three-year terms as the chapter's inaugural leadership team.

Before she graduated in May, Angelique Ryan L'16 traveled to Ethiopia to advocate for a family separated by war, and a top North Carolina television station covered that family's reunification this week at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law alumni and staff fielded phone calls from residents of Wilmington, North Carolina, and nearby communities in a June 21 televised program that offered answers to viewers unsure of where to turn for help with their legal questions.

Marissa Kuzbyt L'16 accepted ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law's highest honor at May's Commencement when she received the 2016 David Gergen Award for Leadership & Professionalism.

On the eve of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law's Commencement, graduates and their loved ones celebrated the completion of their legal studies in a program that included recognition of Mark Funkhouser L’16 and Joshua Bonney L’16 for their academic achievements & service.