Did You Know! Southwestern was recently recognized by the National Jurist as one of the Top 20 Law Schools for Externship Opportunities.
Southwestern's Externship Program serves to enhance the more traditional casebook method of legal instruction by providing students with an opportunity to directly experience the attorney's role through a variety of on-site placements. Last year Southwestern had over 400 students participating in the Externship Program.
So you didn't know Southwestern has a mascot!? Did you know Southwestern used to have a football team and a girls golf club? Many alums are unaware that Southwestern once had athletic teams and a mascot. The law school's mascot, the Bison, came and went during Southwestern's 100 years. From the first student-run paper to Southwestern's 'spirit week' somehow the Bison was resurrected every decade or so. When the time came to decide on a title for the new alumni newsletter, the Alumni Association Board of Directors chose to continue Southwestern's Bison tradition by calling it the Bison Brief. Read more...»
...Meet Southwestern's first President of the Entertainment and Intellectual Property Alumni Association. Step foot into the hip, modern, yet understated and professional office of Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae and you would never guess that the firm is less than two years old. Read more...»
...has a specialized focus in the defense of healthcare providers including physicians and nurses and also handles cases of professional malpractice, contract disputes, personal injury and premises liability. In April 2012 she was appointed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as a Commissioner on the Los Angeles Police Department's Police Permit Review Panel (PPRP). Read more...»
...is a Senior Partner at the law offices of Musick Peeler Garrett LLP and specializes in Environmental Law. Prior to joining the firm he was the Head of Environmental Crimes/OSHA Division for the D.A. Mr. Groveman served as the Mayor of the City of Calabasas in 2005 and again in 2010.Read more..»
...is a partner and Chair of the Entertainment Litigation at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. He enjoys being a problem solver. "It's the challenge of helping a client confront a problem and hopefully reach a resolution that's satisfactory, both legally and business wise," he said.
Throughout Southwestern's 100-year history, generations of graduates have taken tremendous pride in watching family members follow in their footsteps. Fifteen members of Southwestern's Class of 2012 celebrated the legacy started by their parents and grandparents with a new tradition initiated at this year's Commencement ceremony: they were joined onstage by their alumni relatives who presented them with their diplomas. Read more...»
...Southwestern has partnered with the Republic of Armenia's Ministry of Justice to create an opportunity for an American-trained lawyer to spend a year working directly with the Ministry to cultivate Armenia's legal system. The inaugural Southwestern Armenia Fellow will be selected for the fall of 2012. Read more...»
Juan Mondelli loves studying law in the United States. As a Siderman Fellow pursuing an LL.M. degree, he admires the devotion of his Southwestern professors and the opportunity to delve deeply into the subjects of immigration and Asylum law. Mondelli started his year-long fellowship last August, which lasts through the current academic year, followed by a three month externship with the ACLU. Read more...»
...the articulate, poised and well prepared students who presented oral arguments and negotiated problems before leading jurists from local, state and federal courts only began their legal training in the last year. First-year students completed their unique intramural advocacy competitions with a level of grace, professionalism and style that has become a benchmark of Southwestern Law School.Read more...»
... has been a partner in, and is currently of counsel to, the firm of Siegfried, Rivera, Lerner, De La Torre & Sobel, P.A., in Coral Gables, Florida, where she has practiced in the areas of condominium law and construction law since 2003. Prof. Montz was a former faculty member at the University of Miami School of Law and has been appointed as an Associate Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills. Read more...»
... a member of the faculty at Jindal Global Law School in India, has been appointed as an Associate Professor of Law and will teach Property, and Law and International Development. Prof. Gupta brings an important international perspective gained from research and practice in the areas of property rights, law and economic development, as well as gender and the law. Read more...»
...Michael Le and Sarah Moe were both named Best Oralist and will be acknowledged in an upcoming issue of Federal Communications Bar Report. Read more...»
...Jonathan Evans and Trevor Roe were selected as two of five scholarship recipients from a nationwide pool of talented law students who entered the Grammy Foundation's 14th Annual Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI) Writing Competition. Read more...»
Southwestern congratulates Thomas D. Deardorff, II '96 for being nominated to serve as Vice Chairman of the Grower-Shipper Board of Deardorff Family Farms. Read more...»
Southwestern congratulates Alex Grigorians, recently named Senior Associate in the Global Finance and Debt Products Group at the law firm of Alston + Bird. Read more...»
Southwestern congratulates Craig A. Gelfound for being named one of the top Intellectual Property Attorneys in California by the Daily Journal. Read more...»
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