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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…
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Two Widener Law Commonwealth legal methods professors received grants for proposals submitted earlier this year to professional organizations. Submissions for the grants were open to legal methods faculty from across the globe.
Legal Writing Professor Amanda Smith was awarded a $5,000 scholarship…
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Widener University Commonwealth Law School announced today that Douglas M. Wolfberg, a member of the Board of Trustees of Widener University and a 1996 alum of Widener Law Commonwealth, will serve as speaker for the school’s 26th commencement.
Wolfberg will address approximately 60 graduates at the…
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Widener Law Commonwealth has been recognized by preLaw Magazine for their environmental law programs.
The law school was named to the magazine’s list of Top Schools for Environmental Law. Widener Law Commonwealth received an A- grade. The magazine, a publication of National Jurist, is a leading…
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The 11th annual John Gedid Lecture, delivered by Professor Sophia Z. Lee, provided insight around the relatively new area of administrative constitutionalism. Lee is Professor of Law and History and Deputy Dean at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lee is a legal historian whose scholarship joins…
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In an effort to understand and educate, Pennsylvania leaders, lawmakers, and lawyers came together to exchange ideas about opioid addiction law and policy, and to support services that combat the opioid epidemic.
The Law and Government Institute at Widener Law Commonwealth, along with the Dauphin…
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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…
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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…
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For the first time, Widener Law Commonwealth has been ranked among the top law schools by U.S. News & World Report in the “Best Graduate Schools 2018” guidebook in the law school category.
“Being included as a ranked law school by U.S. News and World Report enforces all of the positive things…
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The goal of the Right to Know law is to hold government agencies accountable.
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge P. Kevin Brobson stressed this idea in his first lecture as the Jurist in Residence at Widener Law Commonwealth.
The lecture, A Reasonable Expectation of Transparency—Where the…
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Widener Law Commonwealth alumnus James Schultz has been announced by the Trump administration as associate White House counsel and special assistant to the President.
Schultz, a 1998 graduate, is the second Widener Law Commonwealth alum to be appointed to a White House counsel position under the…
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Bryan Earl, a supervisory special agent and assistant general counsel, Operational Technology Law Unit at the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented, “Lawyers and Cybersecurity – Navigating the Thicket of 21stCentury Technologies, Law, Government Agencies and Public/Private Sector Partnerships”…
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