Student News

Law students partnered this fall with attorneys from Legal Aid of North Carolina and their Elon Law faculty mentors to help residents of Guilford and Durham counties with applications to remove criminal charges from background records.

A September program in downtown Greensboro marked a return to in-person professional development sponsored by the Elon Law Review.

From painting hallways to spreading mulch, members of Elon Law’s Class of 2025 assisted local educators in August with preparing schools for the start of the academic year through the annual Elon Law Reaches Out service initiative for incoming students.

Twenty-nine students in the Class of 2024 will participate in upcoming national contests and help coordinate Elon Law's own Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition.

The Hon. Barron Thompson L’09, an Elon Law graduate who presides in North Carolina District Court, delivered a Convocation address to the Class of 2025 in which he reminded students that “we all owe something to those who came before us.”

Senior leaders welcomed to Greensboro on August 3, 2023, the largest class in the history of Elon University School of Law with a pledge from Dean Zak Kramer: “We will always put the students here first.”

Nic Parsons L’24 credits faculty and staff mentors for their support during her first year of law school – reassurance that led her to an all-expense paid scholarship from the Pauli Murray LGBTQ+ Bar Association to visit Chicago for the 2023 Lavender Law Conference & Career Fair. 

John Ferebee L’24 prevailed in a competition for summer interns with the Supreme Court of North Carolina and the North Carolina Court of Appeals that featured a real case out of Kentucky involving questions of the Fourth Amendment.

There was plenty of whipped cream smeared into the faces of Elon Law faculty and staff in a May 31 fundraiser hosted by a student group that coordinates outreach efforts to assist local nonprofits and advocacy groups.

Elon Law students in the Class of 2024 made appellate arguments in a fictional lawsuit that involves questions of immigration, what constitutes moral turpitude, and due process.