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Widener Law Commonwealth Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development Juliet Moringiello has been appointed by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) to the joint ULC/American Law Institute Study Commission on the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies. The committee will consider the…

For the second time in four years, a Widener Law Commonwealth student has been chosen as a recipient of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Business Law Diversity Clerkship to clerk on the prestigious Delaware Court of Chancery. Waleisha Moat, a second-year law student from Schuylkill County, will…

Widener University Commonwealth Law School announced today that Sharon R. López ’93 and immediate president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA), will serve as the speaker for the school’s 28th commencement. López will address graduates at the 11 a.m. ceremony that is slated for Sunday, May 19…

Law students from Widener Law Commonwealth and Penn State Dickinson Law School got a chance to show off their transactional law skills on February 22 in the Mid Penn Invitational Transactional Law Competition. The competition, hosted by the Business Advising Program at Widener Law Commonwealth, was…

Warren Agin, senior consultant and director of professional development at LexPredict, LLC, is certain that machines won’t replace humans in all tasks.  But, they will transform how lawyers provide professional services in the future. Agin, founder and chair of the American Bar Association…

Widener University Commonwealth Law School announced today that Commonwealth Professor of Business Law Juliet Moringiello has been named Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development. In her new role, Dean Moringiello is responsible for helping to raise the academic and external profile of…

Commonwealth Professor of Business Law Juliet Moringiello is the co-author of a newly released problem method case book, Essential UCC Concepts: A Survey of Commercial Transactions. The book was co-authored by Candace Zierdt and Kristen David Adams, both professors of law at Stetson University. The…

Beginning this fall, students at Widener Law Commonwealth will have the unique opportunity to participate in the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) - Widener Law Commonwealth Business Law Externship Program. The externship is designed to give students the opportunity to work with the PBA Business…

Juliet Moringiello, Commonwealth Professor of Business Law and Director of the Business Advising Certificate Program became Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s (PBA) Business Law Section at the PBA Annual Meeting on May 11. Professor Moringiello, a prominent scholar on bankruptcy and…

The message given at Widener University Commonwealth Law School’s Commencement was clear: Take time to live a full life. Commencement speaker Douglas Wolfberg, a 1996 alum and a member of the Board of Trustees, left the graduates with advice from John Lennon. “Lennon said, ‘Life is what happens…

Commonwealth Professor of Business Law Juliet Moringiello has been appointed as the 2017 Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute (SBLI) Visiting Distinguished Professor at Georgia State University College of Law. In her role, Professor Moringiello, a prominent legal scholar on bankruptcy, will…

The annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Transactional LawMeet competition provides law students with real-life transactional experience. Recently, the Widener Law Commonwealth Transaction team had the opportunity to put their legal skills to work at the Regional Transactional LawMeet competition in…