May 20, 2013 1:00:03 AM by
SWLaw Alumni Office
Southwestern Mourns the Loss of Carole Weiner
Reposted from www.swlaw.edu.
Members of the Southwestern community were greatly saddened by the loss of a beloved colleague, teacher and librarian, Carole Weiner, who passed away on May 7, after fighting a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer. The Associate Director of Southwestern's Leigh H. Taylor Law Library since 1998, Ms. Weiner began her career at Southwestern in 1980 as a circulation librarian. For more than three decades, she taught legal research to thousands of first-year students for whom she served as a favorite mentor.
May 15, 2013 1:56:16 AM by
SWLaw Alumni Office
Southwestern Sets the Trends and Innovations That Other Law Schools Follow
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Just this week, yet another law school - Brooklyn Law School in New York - announced that it would be following Southwestern's lead by launching its own two-year JD program. Brooklyn's news comes on the heels of similar announcements by Pepperdine, Drexel, Florida Coastal, Vermont and Washburn University law schools that they are in the process of developing accelerated programs. In recent years, Dayton and Northwestern established their own two-year programs. While condensing the length of time it takes to complete the JD, these programs do not capture Southwestern's unique and highly respected cohort-based model of small classes and skills-based approach that is the hallmark of the SCALE program.
May 14, 2013 12:12:56 AM by
SWLAW Alumni Office
Marcus Williams Appointed Lieutenant Governor of ABA Law Student Division
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Second-year day student Marcus E. Williams has been appointed the 2013-2014 Lt. Governor for Student Bar Association Presidents of the ABA Law Student Division, 9th Circuit. In this role, he will facilitate communications between SBA Presidents from the 9th Circuit, coordinate meet and greets with them, and likely travel to other schools as an ambassador to encourage SBA involvement.
May 09, 2013 1:34:31 AM by
SWLaw Alumni Office
Luncheon Honoring Impressive Pro Bono Legal Services
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Taking a break from studying, over 250 students were invited to join Dean Parrish, faculty, staff and supervising attorneys from the community at a luncheon to honor and congratulate them for the impressive pro bono legal services they provided to the community during the year. The program included a keynote address by the Hon. Terry B. Friedman, a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge and former Executive Director of Bet Tzedek.