W&L Law Dean Smolla to leave for Furman presidency next July

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

5th Circuit’s Jones to speak at UR about rule of law and wealth

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: February 8, 2010
Tags: Law Schools

Edith Jones, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, will speak about the interplay between the rule of law and the creation of wealth Wednesday at the University of Richmond law school. The event at 6 p.m. in the Moot Court Room is sponsored by the Richmond Law Federalist Society. [...]

W&M law prof named UN mediation expert

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: January 25, 2010
Tags: Law Schools

The College of William and Mary says a law school professor has been named as a senior United Nations mediation expert. Christie Warren was appointed work on constitutional issues for the U.N. for 12 months. Warren is a professor of the practice of International and Comparative Law and the founding director of the Program in [...]