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Third-year law student L. Collin Cooper authored an article on leadership and the law featured in The Young Lawyer, a publication of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.

On August 18, the ������Ƶ Law Class of 2014 participated in the fifth annual "������Ƶ Law Reaches Out" community service day. During this annual orientation event, the entering class assisted several nonprofit organizations in the Greensboro community.

Christa Davis, a third year student at ������Ƶ Law, was one of 20 students to receive a grant through the U.S. State Department for the Emerging Leaders' Extraction and Environment Program (E-LEEP).

������Ƶ Law students Sarah Dixon and Ashley Smith have been chosen to participate in the Equal Justice Works 2011 Summer Corps Program. The program provides law students with funding support for legal projects at qualifying nonprofit public interest organizations. Summer Corps members expand the delivery of critically needed legal assistance in low-income and underserved communities across the country on a broad range of issue areas.

For the third consecutive year, students at ������Ƶ Law taught at several public high schools through a Street Law course offered in the spring semester. Street Law programs enable law students to teach practical legal information to high school students, encouraging greater awareness among teens about the impact of law on society while providing law students with opportunities to enhance legal skills and knowledge of substantive law.

������Ƶ Law's Innocence Project and the undergraduate chapter of Phi Alpha Delta at ������Ƶ cosponsored an April 20 forum entitled "Wrongful Convictions and Innocence: Racism and the SBI Audits." The forum featured Daryll Hunt, exonerated of rape and murder charges after more than 19 years in prison, and three distinguished attorneys engaged in innocence and justice initiatives.

Created in the fall of 2010, the Student Advocacy Board enables ������Ƶ Law students to strengthen trial advocacy skills through participation in annual competitions that draw students from law schools across the country. Members of the Board organize into trial teams, receive coaching from ������Ƶ Law professors and accomplished trial attorneys, and compete in multi-day national advocacy competitions.

Published by the Bankruptcy Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA), through the Section's online "Disclosure Statement" newsletter, the March 2011 article by Kay and J. Marshall Shelton, an attorney with Ivey, McClellan Gatton and Talcott, provides case summaries of nine recent court decisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

The Women's Law Association of ������Ƶ School of Law hosted its fourth annual Women in the Profession Dinner on April 19. The dinner, which was open to the entire student body and faculty, honored Justice Rhoda Bryan Billings for her service to the public and the legal profession.

On April 13, the Law School Republicans and Federalist Society student organizations at ������Ƶ Law collaborated to host a forum exploring issues facing the North Carolina judiciary, featuring The Honorable J. Douglas McCullough, Associate Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.