Student News

Elon Law students Sarah Dixon and Ashley Smith have been chosen to participate in the Equal Justice Works 2011 Summer Corps Program. The program provides law students with funding support for legal projects at qualifying nonprofit public interest organizations. Summer Corps members expand the delivery of critically needed legal assistance in low-income and underserved communities across the country on a broad range of issue areas.

For the third consecutive year, students at Elon Law taught at several public high schools through a Street Law course offered in the spring semester. Street Law programs enable law students to teach practical legal information to high school students, encouraging greater awareness among teens about the impact of law on society while providing law students with opportunities to enhance legal skills and knowledge of substantive law.

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.

Published by the Bankruptcy Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA), through the Section's online "Disclosure Statement" newsletter, the March 2011 article by Kay and J. Marshall Shelton, an attorney with Ivey, McClellan Gatton and Talcott, provides case summaries of nine recent court decisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

The Women's Law Association of Elon University School of Law hosted its fourth annual Women in the Profession Dinner on April 19. The dinner, which was open to the entire student body and faculty, honored Justice Rhoda Bryan Billings for her service to the public and the legal profession.

On April 13, the Law School Republicans and Federalist Society student organizations at Elon Law collaborated to host a forum exploring issues facing the North Carolina judiciary, featuring The Honorable J. Douglas McCullough, Associate Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Elon Law alumni Ryan Stewart and Michael Eldredge, with guest Brandon Ellisen, won the Business Law Association's inaugural golf tournament on April 9. The event brought together 25 law students, alumni, and friends at Country Hills Golf Course in Gibsonville, North Carolina.

The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at Elon Law held its annual reception for third-year law students on April 16. The reception allows BLSA members to show appreciation for the graduating students who have contributed to the growth of the organization and to congratulate them on their journey through law school.

United States Senator Richard Burr will deliver Elon University School of Law's 2011 Commencement address, scheduled for Sunday, May 22, at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Greensboro.