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Meghan O'Keefe kicks off a new weekly video series: Legal Grounds: Coffee & Conversation with ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law students.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law is named one of the nation’s best law schools by The Princeton Review, which released its guide to law schools on Oct. 6. 

Three accomplished attorney educators join ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law's communications faculty, Dr. Julee Flood, Tim McFarlin and Cassandra Thomas Roberts, as the Law School broadly expands its extensive communication skills programs for students. 

Alexandria Hall and Jennifer LaBeau won the final round of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law’s Eighth Annual Intramural Moot Court Competition. Gonzalo Ventura and Meghan Smith also competed in the final round. Ventura was named “Best Oralist from the Final Round” and “Best Oralist from the Preliminary Rounds.” The team of Leah Britt and James Capps took “Best Brief” honors. 

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law alumnus Mital Patel L’09 was recognized by North Carolina Lawyers Weekly as a 2015 “Leader in the Law” at a Sept. 25 luncheon in Charlotte, NC before an audience of leading lawyers from across the state.

In an ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Now commentary, Professor Eric Fink, a labor and employment law expert, examines the impacts on workers of on-demand services like Uber and Taskrabbit. 

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor Henry Gabriel presented a paper Sept. 9 at the Oxford University Faculty of Law on the international financing of agricultural, construction and mining equipment. The paper will be published in the forthcoming issue of the Cape Town Academic Law Review. 

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law student placements in the offices of a city attorney, public defender, judge, law firm and social justice nonprofit are featured in the eighth and final weekly spotlight on ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law student summer employment experiences.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ School of Law presented Leslie J. Winner, executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, with the Law School’s highest professional honor, the Leadership in the Law Award, recognizing Winner’s significant contributions to law, the legal profession and society. ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Dean Luke Bierman presented the award in Charlotte, N.C. at a luncheon forum attended by lawyer-leaders from across North Carolina.

Enthusiasm for the achievements of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law students and for ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law’s leadership role in the innovation of legal education infused the law school’s eighth annual Friends & Family Day on Sept. 19.