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��ϲ�� Law School Innocence Project® Hosting Recently Exonerated North Carolina Man – April 12

April 6, 2010

The ��ϲ�� School of Law Chapter of the Innocence Project® will host Greg Taylor and Christine Mumma, Esq. as its guests on Monday, April 12 at 7:00 pm in Room 207 of the law school. They will be sharing the story of Taylor’s wrongful conviction and exoneration.

Post Graduate Judicial Clerkship Panel – April 8

April 1, 2010

��ϲ�� Law's office of Career Services invites law students for a panel presentation regarding post graduate judicial clerkships, Thursday, April 8 from noon to 1 pm in Room 204. If you are rising third-year student and plan to apply for judicial clerkships during the summer months or you are a rising second-year law student who is interested in hearing more about judicial clerkships following law school, this is an important panel to attend.

��ϲ�� Law student Bernard Brown presents on DNA patents at Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Law Review

March 29, 2010

Third-year ��ϲ�� Law student Bernard Brown was a panelist at the North Carolina Central University School of Law Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Law Review symposium on March 19, representing the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice PLLC, where Brown serves as a patent agent.

Reception with the legal community – April 8

March 25, 2010

On Thursday, April 8, from 4 to 5 p.m., ��ϲ�� School of Law invites and other special guests from the legal community to socialize with ��ϲ�� Law students, faculty, and administration, including as a special guest Judge of the Month, The Honorable Robert H. Edmunds, Jr., Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The event will be held in the Cemala Commons on the second floor of the law school.

��ϲ�� Law Hosts NC Bar Association Patent Law Presentation

March 23, 2010

On March 16, ��ϲ�� Law's Career Services Office and the Patent Law Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association's Intellectual Property Law Section co-hosted a roundtable presentation entitled, "Strategies for Dealing with a Charge of Patent Infringement."

Faith Rivers James delivers keynote address at SC Master-in-Equity Judge’s Association Annual Meeting

March 23, 2010

��ϲ�� Law professor Faith Rivers James delivered the keynote address at the South Carolina Master-in-Equity Judge's Association 2010 Annual Meeting in Columbia, South Carolina on March 12, with an address titled, "Partitioning Heirs' Property: Strategies and Solutions."

NPR’s Nina Totenberg says federal courts could threaten Obama legacy

March 23, 2010

National Public Radio's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, delivering ��ϲ�� Law's spring 2010 Bryan Leadership Lecture, said the Supreme Court had become more divided and more activist than at any time in recent memory, and that major policy objectives of the Obama administration could be dismantled in years ahead by federal courts largely populated by Republican era appointees.

Andy Haile presents testimony on sin taxes before Vermont tax commission

March 18, 2010

��ϲ�� Law professor Andy Haile offered an overview of the use of sin taxes in states across the country on March 16, for consideration by the Vermont Blue Ribbon Tax Structure Commission.

Catherine Dunham serves as program director at NITA Southeast Deposition Program

March 18, 2010

��ϲ�� Law professor and associate dean for academic affairs Catherine Dunham recently served as a program director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) Southeast Deposition Program, held in Raleigh, North Carolina, March 3-5.

��ϲ�� Law professor Howard Katz featured in News and Record on benefits of Google in Greensboro

March 18, 2010

As cities across the country compete in Google's competition to be selected for the company's ultra-high-speed broadband project, Howard Katz, Professor at ��ϲ�� School of Law, spoke with the News and Record about the educational benefits of bringing Google's "Fiber for Communities" to Greensboro.