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preLaw Magazine's 2020 guide to “Best Schools for Practical Training” listed Elon Law as a top law school for "giving students real-world experience before they step into the real world."

The NBC affiliate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, turned to Taleed El-Sabawi - an assistant professor of law with a Ph.D. in public health - to help viewers understand the lexicon of stay-at-home orders issued by municipalities across the state.

Online course instruction and residencies-in-practice will continue for the spring trimester after Elon Law administrators, in light of statewide stay-at-home orders, announced the closure of all facilities until the end of the 2020 Spring Trimester.

Assistant Professor Taleed El-Sabawi at Elon Law, and Assistant Professor Jennifer Carroll in Elon University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology, have been selected for a program funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Justice Community Opioid Intervention Network Coordinating and Translational Center.

Associate Professor Eric Fink spoke with the Citizen Times in Asheville for a March 14, 2020, story about an upcoming vote by nurses to form a union at western North Carolina's largest hospital.

All in-person classroom instruction, in-person admissions interviews, and student meetings on campus are suspended through April 19 as Elon Law adopts social distancing policies and practices in response to COVID-19 pandemic.

Zechariah Etheridge, Andrew Tawiah and Kelsie Wiltse from Elon Law's Class of 2021 will work this summer in top legal placements through the North Carolina Bar Association's Minorities in the Profession 1L Summer Associate Program.

Judges from the North Carolina Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on March 4 in the case of a man convicted of drug possession who alleges an illegal search by police, and a civil lawsuit brought by the estate of a man killed when his riding mower overturned at a construction site.

Assistant Professor Tiffany Atkins L’11 took part in a “Life After Student Debt” panel discussion at Bennett College presented by the Greensboro Commission on the Status of Women and the city's Human Relations Commission.

Grant Buckner L’13 leads a small team at the Supreme Court of North Carolina that crafts rules, reviews opinions, and provides counsel for the state’s highest court.