Wake Forest Law alumnus, youngest practicing attorney in North Carolina, excels in litigation
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Wake Forest Law alumnus Daniel Gibson ’15 may have been the youngest practicing attorney in North Carolina when he started working as an associate at Cannon Law in Statesville in September 2015. Gibson came full circle in March 2017 when he joined Cary Law Firm PLLC as chief…
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WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Wake Forest Law alumnus David Daggett ’95, attorney and partner with the law firm Daggett Shuler in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was proud to accept the 2018 Forsyth County Governor’s Volunteer Service Award in the People’s Choice category. Daggett was nominated by the Piedmont Down Syndrome Support Network for this prestigious…
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Rebecca Dallet, Class of 1994, will return to Case Western Reserve University School of Law to deliver the commencement address on Sunday, May 19. Dallet most recently won a 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on April 3, 2018.
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Albany Law alumnus David McCraw ’92, deputy general counsel of The New York Times, returned to Albany Law School on March 27, 2019, to discuss the themes in his new book, Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts.
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VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY WIDGER SCHOOL OF LAW — Villanova Law alumnus Omeed Firouzi ’18 was named a 2018-2020 American Bar Association Section of Taxation Christine A. Brunswick Public Service Fellow. The Fellowship, which supports Firouzi’s work as an attorney in Philadelphia Legal Assistance’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic, will begin in September 2018.
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VANDERBILT LAW SCHOOL — Vanderbilt Law alumna Laura Dolbow ’17 has won a 2018 Law360 Distinguished Writing Award, which recognizes excellence and clarity in legal writing, in the law school category for her Note, “A Distinction without a Difference: Convergence in Claim Construction Standards,” published in the Vanderbilt Law Review in April 2017.
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VANDERBILT LAW SCHOOL — Vanderbilt Law alumna WyNell Henson ’18 has won the 2018 Nagareda Prize for her Vanderbilt Law Review Note, “A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Examining the Admissibility of Experts’ Prior Malpractice under the Federal Rules of Evidence.” The annual prize recognizes the best scholarly paper in the fields of litigation and dispute…
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STATE BAR OF WISCONSIN — Wisconsin Law alumna Seep Paliwal ’15 is the recipient of the Young Lawyers Division’s Outstanding Young Lawyer Award. Paliwal not only provides family law representation to indigent clients, she recently launched two pro bono initiatives: the Municipal Defense Project and the Foreclosure Defense Project.
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON — Wisconsin Law alumna Vel Phillips ’51, the law school’s first African-American graduate, died on April 17. She was 95. Phillips — the first African-American to serve on Milwaukee’s Common Council and the first woman elected to it — became an influential voice in the national movement for fair housing during the…
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WISCONSIN LAWYER — University of Wisconsin Law alumna Toni Caldwell is the tribal attorney for the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, located in Keshena. Caldwell uses her legal skills in a wide variety of areas in tribal, state, and federal courts. But preserving Menominee culture and values is what drives her.
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