School of Law

Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) has recognized Class of 2011 Elon Law students Tiffany D. Atkins and Lucas Beal for outstanding contributions to the organization this summer.

Elon University School of Law announced the appointment of four new faculty members on August 18. Robert Parrish and Michael L. Rich will serve as assistant professors of law, specializing in legal writing and criminal law respectively. Patricia Perkins will serve as an assistant professor of legal writing and Angela Gilmore, whose scholarship interests include trusts and estates, nonprofit organizations, real estate law, and lesbian and gay rights, will serve as a visiting professor of law.

On August 18, the Elon Law Class of 2013, along with second-year and third-year law students, participated in the fourth annual “Elon Law Reaches Out” community service day. During the event, more than 150 law students assisted the work of eleven nonprofit and educational organizations in the Greensboro community.

Seven members of the Class of 2013 have been selected as Leadership Fellows at Elon University School of Law. They are: Pamela Boeka, Sherea D. Burnett, Janison Anne Dillon, Shoshana Fried, Jennifer Imediegwu, Andrew Richard Jones, and Jason Colin Senges.

Members of Elon Law’s Classes of 2011 and 2012 served in all three branches of government at federal, state and local levels, and in numerous private sector positions, through summer employment experiences this year.

Elon Law students Whitney Butcher, Daniel Joyce, and Benjamin Snyder were featured in the August newsletter of the Legal Aid of North Carolina-Winston Salem Office, for contributions as law clerks at LANC serving individuals in the region who are unable to afford private legal representation.

Elon Law's executive coach in residence Bonnie McAlister presented at KARAMAH's Eighth Annual Law and Leadership Summer Program, held July 12 through July 23. KARAMAH is a human rights organization of Muslim women lawyers dedicated to promoting dignity for all human beings through education and legal outreach.

On June 26, Martha Peters, professor of legal education at Elon Law, presented at the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Associate Deans' Conference, "Nudge: Leading, Motivating, and Team Building."

In a project sponsored by The Southern California Innovation Project of the University of Southern California School of Law and hosted by the Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, participants, including Elon Law's John Alexander, worked to develop concrete goals, metrics and methods to transform legal education in ways that better prepare law students for the business and ethical dimensions of law practice.