News - Business Advising Program

Abbigale Agosti, a second-year law student at Widener Law Commonwealth, has been awarded the Reybitz Business Advising Program Fellowship.  This fellowship is made possible by a generous donation from alum Ronald Reybitz ’96, who serves as associate general counsel for PPL. It was designed to…

Nicholas Grimes and Michael Kohn have been named semi-finalists at the 22nd Annual Law Student Tax Challenge Competition, a national tax competition hosted by the American Bar Association and held during its midyear meeting.  This challenge, organized by the ABA Young Lawyers Forum, provides…

Jessica Collier, a second-year law student at Widener Law Commonwealth, has been awarded the Reybitz Business Advising Program Fellowship. The new fellowship is made possible by a generous donation from alum Ronald Reybitz '96, who serves as associate general counsel for PPL. It was designed to…

Engaging students with business law professionals with learning, networking experiences  Providing students with the opportunity to learn more about business law and connect with attorneys in the profession are the primary goals of Widener Law Commonwealth’s Business Advising Student…

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law Juliet Moringiello has been awarded the W. Edward Sell Business Lawyer Award from the Pennsylvania Bar Association. The award is named after the late W. Edward Sell, who was instrumental in the enactment of business corporation law in…

Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law Juliet M. Moringiello has been appointed as Vice Chair of the American Law Institute (ALI) and Uniform Law Commission’s (ULC) Joint Study Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies. As Vice Chair,…

After a five-year term, Widener University Commonwealth Law School Dean Christian A. Johnson will step down from his role as dean on July 1 to return to full-time teaching. Johnson came to the law school from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2015.…

The Widener University Commonwealth Law School Class of 2020 is extraordinary, according to law school dean Christian A. Johnson. In videotaped remarks played at this year’s law school celebration of graduates on Sunday, Johnson congratulated the graduates on their “extraordinary achievements, on…

Election Day 2019 was a good one for six Widener Law Commonwealth alumni who won or were retained to public office. Judge P. Kevin Brobson ’95, retained for another 10-year term on the Commonwealth Court Carrie E. Hyams ’05, elected to the Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas Heather Adams ’97,…

Widener Law Commonwealth students Michael Morrison and Deanna Wagner were the first two recipients of grants from the Business Advising Program’s Student Professional Development Fund, which was established to enable students to attend professional conferences. Michael, a third-year student, and…

When Dean Christian Johnson started working for a large corporate law firm in Chicago, he immediately realized that he had been woefully unprepared for the work by his law school. The large finance documents didn’t resemble anything that he had studied in school, forcing him to play catch up for…

Since March 2019 five courts, including the highest courts of Iowa, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, have cited the work of four Widener Law Commonwealth faculty members: Professors James Diehm, Michael Dimino, Juliet Moringiello, and Christopher Robinette. Two opinions addressed criminal procedure…