The VLW Blog

U.Va. law student Leo Wolpert will start his second year with a big grin and a fat wallet.
The former professional poker player won a World Series of Poker event in Las Vegas last month, pocketing $652,000 in winnings, according to the law school.  Wolpert is living in Sin City for the summer, interning with the […]

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Starting this fall, the University of Virginia law school will offer a clinic designed to help low-income families resolve legal issues through mediation or other options outside of a courtroom.
According to a press release from the law school, the Family Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic will partner with the Mediation Center of Charlottesville and focus primarily […]

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The New York Times notes recent pronouncements by the outspoken justice, including an analysis of law clerk recruitment.
While visiting the American University law school, ranked 45th in the country, Justice Scalia took a question from a student who wanted to know what she had to do to become “outrageously successful” without “connections and elite degrees.”
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There’s a wealth of information about the achievements and advancements of law professors as the school year comes to an end.
We note that the University of Virginia law school has snagged Saikrishna Prakash, a prominent constitutional law scholar, who will start in the fall.  Prakash is currently the Herzog Research Professor of Law at […]

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The George Mason University law school has introduced a new specialty concentration in homeland and national security law.
According to a press release on the school’s Web site, students interested in the field are required to take six courses: Administrative Law, Homeland Security Law, and National Security Law, plus three elective courses selected from a list […]

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How do you follow Chuck Norris as a graduation speaker?  Liberty University this year will go with actor, writer and economist Ben Stein.
The former presidential speechwriter — who came to fame in 1986 as Ferris Bueller’s economics teacher — has stirred controversy recently with a movie that disputes the theory of evolution.
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The tax clinic at the Washington and  Lee University law school will get a matching $48,000 grant from the Internal Revenue Service.
The grant will enable to the clinic to provide assistance to low-income tax payers in much of the Shenandoah Valley.
A release from the school has details.

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For the second year in a row, a moot court team from William & Mary has taken top honors at the Tulane University School of Law Mardi Gras Invitational.  The annual sports law competition featured a field of 38 teams from across the country.
3Ls Johnny O’Kane and Arpan Sura made up the championshoip 2009 W&M […]

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The Appalachian School of Law is on a presidential honor roll for community service.
In 2008, ASL continued coaching “Lego Robotics” teams at the Mountain Mission School for underprivileged children.   ASL students took part in the Buchanan County Community Christmas Collaborative to bring holiday cheer – clothing, […]

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George Mason University law students have won the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship in the National Rounds of the 2009 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, according to the school’s announcement.
The moot team shut out the competition 7-0.
The team will advance to the International Rounds (finals) to be held in Washington, D.C., March 22-28.

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