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William & Mary to honor late Marine Lewis Puller Jr.

By The Associated Press
Published: November 11, 2010
Tags: Law Schools

(AP) — The College of William & Mary’s Law School is naming its veterans’ legal clinic after the late Marine officer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lewis B. Puller Jr.
The Williamsburg college plans to hold a Veterans Day ceremony today to dedicate the Lewis B. Puller Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic in memory of Puller, an advocate [...]

Law schools jostle for bar-pass rankings

By Peter Vieth
Published: November 1, 2010
Tags: Law Schools, Virginia Board of Bar Examiners

The University of Virginia law school again led the way in its Virginia bar pass rate for the July exam, but only by a slim margin. U.Va.’s overall bar pass rate was 89.8 percent, with William & Mary’s law school close behind at 89.7 percent.
In fact, William & Mary topped U.Va. for first-time test takers [...]

Mediation, from grass roots to governor’s mansion

By Deborah Elkins
Published: October 26, 2010
Tags: ADR, Law Schools

Mediation practice thrives in Virginia, having begun at the grass-roots level some 20 years ago.
Pioneers of the movement and current and aspiring practitioners gathered Oct. 20 at the University of Richmond law school to celebrate National Mediation Month, sponsored by the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution.
Geetha Ravindra and Inga Watkins, who are lawyers [...]

Onward, Christian lawyers

By Peter Vieth
Published: September 13, 2010
Tags: Law Schools

Lynchburg’s Liberty University law school wants to be known not just as a law school with a Christian mission, but also as a law school producing lawyers who are ready to go to work.
Celebrating the school’s full accreditation by the American Bar Association last month, Dean Mathew Staver explained that Liberty, since its beginning six [...]

Law librarian at UR assumes national post

By Deborah Elkins
Published: August 27, 2010
Tags: Law Schools

Law librarian Joyce Manna Janto knows where to keep her focus.
As Deputy Director of the Law Library at the University of Richmond, Janto juggles all kinds of print and electronic resources. But she never forgets the end user who needs information, whether it’s a 1-L at the keyboard or a local lawyer in the library [...]

From One-L to 20-L: U.Va. law, 20 years on

By Alan Cooper
Published: August 16, 2010
Tags: Law Schools

How do you feel about your job today? How about yesterday? Last year?
Surveys on lawyer job satisfaction tend to be snapshots of a particular moment.
But a new study looks at one group of 360 lawyers, starting with the date they entered the University of Virginia law school in 1987, and catching up with them again [...]

UR student wins LeClairRyan Oliver Hill law scholarship

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: May 24, 2010
Tags: Law Schools

LeClairRyan has awarded its second annual LeClairRyan-Oliver W. Hill Scholarship to Qasim Rashid, a first-year law student at the University of Richmond.
The $5,000 scholarship was established to recognize a student of color at a Virginia or Washington law school who most exemplifies the late Oliver W. Hill’s qualities of legal excellence and selfless dedication [...]

W&L law prof to study health insurance exchanges

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: May 17, 2010
Tags: Law Schools

Timothy S. Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University and an expert on health law, has received a grant of nearly $300,000 from the Commonwealth Fund to study implementation of the recently passed health care reform legislation.
The grant for the project will be shared by three institutions, with Jost serving as the [...]

5th Circuit judge to give lecture at Washington & Lee

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: March 29, 2010
Tags: Law Schools

Jennifer Walker Elrod, a judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will deliver the annual Lewis F. Powell Jr. lecture Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University.
Elrod, a graduate of Baylor University and Harvard Law School, was named to the federal court in 2007 after five years as [...]

Block to join advocacy clinic at U.Va. law school

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: February 22, 2010
Tags: Law Schools

CHARLOTTESVILLE—Andrew Block, the founder and legal director of the JustChildren Program, will leave that post to become legal director of the Child Advocacy Clinic at the University of Virginia law school.
Block has been legal director of JustChildren for more than 12 years and helped found the law school clinic in 1998 while he was a [...]

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