Alan Woodlief, associate dean for admissions and administration for the Elon University School of Law, has been named one of the Triad's "40 Leaders Under Forty" by The Business Journal, a weekly newspaper serving the area's business community. Details...
The annual award celebrates the successes and contributions of some of the area’s most prominent young professionals.
Woodlief has played a key role in establishment of the Elon University School of Law since he joined the staff in May 2005. He was responsible for recruiting the school’s charter class of 115 students, and also established the Office of Professional Recruitment, Development and Placement, which ensures smooth transitions for students as they move from being law school applicants to their first jobs as practicing attorneys. As an associate professor of law, Woodlief teaches in the law school’s first-year orientation program and legal skills course, will teach upper-level courses and will coach the school’s moot court teams. He also teaches an undergraduate pre-law course at Elon University.
Woodlief is active in legal education both statewide and nationally. He serves on the board of directors of the North Carolina Legal Education Assistance Fund and the national Editorial Board for the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction. He also serves on the Publications Board of the North Carolina State Bar and the Appellate Rules Study Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association, while authoring two treatises widely used by North Carolina practitioners: “North Carolina Law of Damages, Fourth Edition,” and “North Carolina Civil Practice and Procedure, Sixth Edition.”
In addition to his work at Elon Law, Woodlief serves on the board of directors of the Kathleen Price Bryan YMCA in Greensboro and is also a member of the Greensboro Kiwanis. He has served as Elon Law’s team leader for the 2006 American Heart Association Heart Walk for Guilford County. He is a den leader for Cub Scout Pack 103 in Summerfield, N.C., and is a member of his homeowner’s association architectural control committee. He and his family are active members of Guilford Park Presbyterian Church.
Woodlief is a 1994 graduate of Campbell University law school and joined Campbell law’s faculty following a clerkship with Justice Henry E. Frye of the North Carolina Supreme Court. He served as associate dean for admissions at Campbell’s law school before coming to Elon.
The ninth annual “40 Leaders Under Forty” recognition event will be hosted by The Business Journal on Feb. 22 at the Embassy Suites in Greensboro. The Business Journal and the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro are the sponsors of this year’s awards.