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More than 85 runners recently took to the pavement for the inaugural Speedy Trial 5k held on the Widener Law Commonwealth campus.  The event was organized by the Phi Alpha Delta – Pepper Chapter, a law fraternity. The beneficiary of the race proceeds was MidPenn Legal Services and the…

The federal immigration court is located in a large cinder block building tucked away on a side road, in a quiet industrial park off Route 30 in York, PA.  A person looking at the building would have a hard time distinguishing it from the York County Prison.  The immigration court is…

Widener Law Commonwealth’s first-time bar test takers recently earned a 100 percent bar passage rate on the bar exam that was given in February. The law school was the only Pennsylvania law school to achieve this success rate among first-time test takers. "We are very excited about the…

Image  “Is all law technology law?” This was a question recently posed by Professor Joshua Fairfield, a speaker at the John Gedid Lecture Series at Widener Law Commonwealth. Professor Fairfield, of Washington and Lee University School of Law…

Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, ‘02 gave a keynote address titled The State of Pennsylvania’s Government at Widener Law Commonwealth last week. The Auditor General spoke about the good aspects of Pennsylvania government, but also about the improvements that could be made to make processes more…

Widener University Commonwealth Law School announced today that alumna and Magistrate Judge Susan E. Schwab of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania will serve as speaker for the school’s 25th commencement. Judge Schwab will address approximately 50 graduates at…

Professor Juliet Moringiello, a widely recognized expert on municipal bankruptcy, is a frequent commentator on the topic in the national and international news media. She developed and teaches a Cities in Crisis seminar and has published several law review articles on the role of the state in the…

By John C. Dernbach Distinguished Professor of Law Sustainable development is the internationally and nationally recognized framework for reconciling environmental protection with economic and social development. Most of us tend to think that we have to choose between development and environment—as…

Most law school students will learn about the incarceration process, but few actually get to experience it first hand and have an understanding from both an inmate and a guard’s perspective. Prof. Amanda Smith wanted her Legal Methods III class to have the real-life experience and learn first-hand…

Recently the Widener Law Journal held the annual Law Journal Symposium, Ruling the Courts: The Future of Local Rules of Civil Procedure in Pennsylvania. Each year, the Widener Law Journal chooses a timely topic for discussion at the Symposium, which serves as an opportunity for students to learn…

When preLaw magazine “sought to identify law schools that do the best job of preparing students for careers in public service,” Widener Law Commonwealth was the only school from Pennsylvania making the list of the nation’s top 20 schools for government law. The magazine, a publication of the…

The Widener Law Commonwealth Transactional LawMeets team returned to Harrisburg with an award for Best Draft at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Transactional LawMeet, held at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, on February 26. The Transactional LawMeet is a live,…