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Elon Law's Sports and Entertainment Law Society hosted a presentation by Ron Katz on April 14. Katz is a partner of the firm Mannatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, in Palo Alto, California. He is the chair of his firm's Sports Law division.

The May 5 edition of the News & Record features Elon University School of Law for its contributions to the economic growth and vitality of downtown Greensboro. The article reports on downtown Greensboro's comparatively strong economic growth indicators, noting Elon's recent purchase of property in the area and the university's plans to expand facilities for the law school.

On May 6, Elon Law professor David Levine presented findings from his article, "The People's Trade Secrets?" at the spring meeting of the Carolina Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Association. In March, Levine discussed his research on the operation of intellectual property law at the intersection of technology and public life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, through the Mary Junck Research Colloquium series in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Law scholars William M. Carter, Jr. of Temple University Beasley School of Law, Jacqueline D. Lipton of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and Frank Pasquale of Seton Hall Law spoke at Elon University School of Law this year through the law school's faculty development lecture series.

Elon Law's Innocence Project and the undergraduate chapter of Phi Alpha Delta at Elon University cosponsored an April 20 forum entitled "Wrongful Convictions and Innocence: Racism and the SBI Audits." The forum featured Daryll Hunt, exonerated of rape and murder charges after more than 19 years in prison, and three distinguished attorneys engaged in innocence and justice initiatives.

Created in the fall of 2010, the Student Advocacy Board enables Elon Law students to strengthen trial advocacy skills through participation in annual competitions that draw students from law schools across the country. Members of the Board organize into trial teams, receive coaching from Elon Law professors and accomplished trial attorneys, and compete in multi-day national advocacy competitions.

On April 29, Elon Law professor Faith Rivers James presented a series of case law updates related to land use regulations, eminent domain, co-tenancy, and other property law matters, at the 22nd Annual Spring Symposia of the American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law, held in Washington, D.C.