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Kjirsten Durand-Johnson L’20 has been honored in the most recent Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition for a class assignment she parlayed into a formal contest submission.

Ashley Jay Elizabeth Poling L'13 was sworn in last month as a commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission, an independent agency that provides regulatory oversight over the United States Postal Service.

Twenty-five students in the Class of 2020 will help guide the school's moot court program over the next year by participating in upcoming national contests and coordinating ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's own national moot court competition.

Assistant Professor Taleed El-Sabawi traveled to Chicago and Rome over the summer to participate in international conferences focused on health law and mental health.

"A Symposium to Assess Judicial Independence in 2019" will feature contributions from some of the nation's top legal scholars and political observers visiting ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law in downtown Greensboro.

Second- and third-year ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law students completed internships over the summer months with judges, law firms, nonprofits and government agencies around the United States.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's Class of 2021 was reminded this month of the ways a legal education can benefit society when students gathered on main campus for a Convocation ceremony that emphasized academic and professional expectations for law students.

The second-largest class in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law history is also its most diverse, with more than half of new students hailing from outside of North Carolina and nearly a third who identify as students of color.

Aiming to make a legal education less intimidating for first-generation law students, James Harris L'19 and Dan Walsh L'20 created "Law School Crucible" with interviews showcasing the many ways the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law community defines success.

Under a new agreement, exceptionally qualified students attending Meredith College in Raleigh will be able to earn their undergraduate and law degrees in five and a half years.