Student News

On March 8, the Elon Law student organization, Outlaw, held a seminar titled "The Importance of Same Sex Partnership Agreements in Light of Boseman." Family law attorney Rebecca Perry discussed Boseman v. Jarrell, a recent North Carolina case that decided whether an adoption decree granting the non-parent in a same sex relationship parental rights was valid after the relationship dissolved.

The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area selected three Elon graduates - Kristen Wither Yntema '95, Wade G. Jurney Jr. G'09 and Jeb Brooks L'10 - among its 2011 "40 Leaders Under Forty." They were honored at a Feb. 17 event at the Embassy Suites in Greensboro, N.C., and were profiled in the Feb. 18 edition of the periodical.

On February 21, members of the Elon Law Review, the student-edited scholarly journal of the Elon University School of Law, held elections for its 2011-2012 editorial board. Eleven members from the Class of 2012 were elected to the board, including James Grant, who will serve as editor-in-chief.

On February 23, the Women's Law Association (WLA) hosted its semi-annual Spring Coffee and Conversation on "Life After the Bar." Three attorneys from the region spoke about their experiences entering the legal profession.

On November 17, Elon Law students Daniel Harris, Leah Shellberg, Ashley Smith, Ben Synder, and Melissa Westmoreland presented research into potential wrongful convictions of individuals in North Carolina, before Christine Mumma, Executive Director of the N.C. Center on Actual Innocence. Elon's chapter of the Innocence Project also met Dwayne Allen Dail, exonerated after 18 years in prison for a rape he did not commit.

Pamela Lawrence, '12, and Michael Sprague, '11, are among a select group of North Carolina law students chosen by the Research Triangle Area Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel to receive the chapter's first-annual scholarship awards. Criteria for the scholarships include academic performance and an interest in the in-house practice of law.

Elon Law student Andrea Davis, along with Nancy Short Ferguson, counsel with the Chicago Title Insurance Company and Lisa Stewart of the Stewart Law Firm, wrote an article for the Winter 2010 issue of the North Carolina State Bar Journal exploring methods established across several states to help attorneys protect client funds entrusted to them.

During the Winter Term, members of Elon Law's Leadership Fellows program initiated a canned food drive in support of Greensboro Urban Ministries, organizing the drive as a competition among teams of students in the course Lawyering, Leadership and Professionalism.

Chosen from a pool of 1,536 applicants, Elon Law students Keely Sewell, Benjamin Snyder, and Michael Sprague have been chosen to participate in the Equal Justice Works 2010 Summer Corps Program.