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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…

Staff and faculty from across Widener University paused this week to remember Tony Santoro, a former law dean whose vision shaped Widener’s unique dual structure of legal education. Santoro, 77, died Monday, September 9 after a brief illness. “Tony Santoro had a profound impact on legal education,”…

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…