Campbell Law hosts swearing-in ceremony for 2024 graduates
Thirty recent Campbell Law School graduates participated in the annual swearing-in ceremony at the law school on Oct. 11 hosted by the Campbell Law Alumni Association. Honorable Paul Ridgeway, a 1986 Campbell Law graduate and a North Carolina Superior Court judge, and the Honorable Damion McCullers, a 2003 Campbell Law graduate and Wake County District Court judge, administered the oath of office and led the swearing-in of Campbell Law alumni who passed the July 2024 North Carolina Bar Examination. McCullers told the group gathered in the Dupree Courtroom, “This is one of my favorite days and a day you will never forget. Always remember, you are a Campbell lawyer and that means you are prepared. You are a Camel. It is in your DNA.” Learn more at this link.
Campbell Law announces seven new Board of Visitor members
Campbell Law Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced the addition of seven legal and industry leaders to the law school’s Board of Visitors. Ryan S. Boyce, Evin Grant ‘16, The Honorable Jane Powell Gray ‘79, Donald W. Marcari ‘85, Charles “Ches” F. McDowell ‘14, J. Cary Tharrington IV ‘92 and J. Merritt White III ‘87 will all serve two-year terms on the board. John M. McCabe, a 1994 Campbell Law graduate, continues to serve as the board’s chair. Four first-year Campbell Law students — the recipients of the law school’s highly competitive, full-tuition scholarships — also joined the board this year as ex-officio members. Those students are Lydia Peterson, the Janette Soles Nelson Public Service Scholar; Jason Thomas, the Ben and Patrice Thompson Achievement Scholar; Caitlin Heidel, the Cheshire Schneider Advocacy Scholar; and Awa Mbai, the Leary and Joy Davis Leadership Scholar. Campbell Law’s Board of Visitors helps the dean, faculty and staff develop strategic planning, launch new efforts around the law school and community and often act as a think-tank for many of the projects undertaken throughout the academic year. Learn more about the Board of Visitors at this link.
Professor Jon Powell '98 named Pro Bono Hero during national Pro Bono Week
Campbell Law Professor Jon Powell ‘98, director of the law school’s Restorative Justice Clinic (RJC), has been recognized by Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) as a recipient of their Pro Bono Hero Awards as part of National Celebration of Pro Bono Week 2024. LANC launched the Pro Bono Hero Awards last year to recognize extraordinary pro bono service that we hope serves as an inspiring example to the North Carolina legal community, said Sean Driscoll, communications specialist for LANC. “Specifically, we are honoring you for your service on behalf of our Right to Education Project,” he wrote in a congratulatory email to Powell. “On behalf of everyone at Legal Aid NC, thank you for your service on behalf of our clients and our firm. We are truly grateful for all that you do for us. You really are a Pro Bono Hero!” Learn more at this link.
Professor Greg Wallace named Fellow at Wyoming Law School's Firearms Research Center
Professor E. Gregory Wallace has been named a Fellow at the University of Wyoming College of Law’s Firearms Research Center (FRC). The Center’s mission is to “foster a broad discourse and produce meaningful change in how firearms and the Second Amendment are discussed and understood in America through research, scholarship, legal training and publicly available resources. Professor Wallace is co-author of “Firearms Law and the Second Amendment,” the leading law school textbook and treatise on the subject. His research focuses on “assault weapons,” gun bans, firearm ballistics and mass public shootings. Learn more at this link.
Campbell Law launches Pro Bono Project to aid Legal Support Center
Campbell Law has a new, student-led Pro Bono Project that will assist the Wake County Legal Support Center, Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced. The new project, which will be operated under the law school’s Pro Bono Council, involves students working in and under the auspices of the Wake County Legal Support Center to assist with preparation of legal documents and identification of legal issues, explained Pro Bono Committee Chair Richard Waugaman ‘12, who is the director of the law school’s Gailor Family Law Litigation Clinic. “The new project also enables students to develop soft skills related to client counseling and human interaction,” Waugaman explained. Learn more at this link.
Campbell Law Restorative Justice Clinic's work featured on WHQR Public Media
The unique work Campbell Law’s Restorative Justice Clinic is doing is featured on a new episode of WHQR Public Media’s The Newsroom in Wilmington, North Carolina. The unique work Campbell Law's Restorative Justice Clinic is doing is featured on a new episode of WHQR Public Media’s The Newsroom in Wilmington, North Carolina. “Reconciliation and restoration are key to relationships: but they rarely come up in the criminal justice system,” states Wilmington’s WHQR Public Media on its website. “That may soon change, as North Carolina makes Restorative Justice an integrated part of the Department of Public Safety. Learn more at this link.
Campbell Law students disrupt ‘School to Prison Pipeline’ through Education Equity Clinic
Campbell Law students enrolled in the Richardson Family Education Equity Clinic (EEC) this semester have successfully advocated in collaboration with Wake County’s Juvenile Public Defender to protect a 14-year-old child’s probation status and preserve his place in public school. Tilson Gitter ’25 and Hannah Brown ’25 represent the child in connection with ongoing civil rights claims arising out of the child’s experience in public school, said Professor Lisa Lukasik, who serves as the Clinic’s director. Through that representation, they recognized that violations of their client’s educational rights under federal law caused him to miss school and placed his probationary status in juvenile court at risk. Learn more at this link.
Campbell Law hosts 6th annual bike ride to help celebrate Pro Bono Week
Campbell Law hosted its 6th annual Fundraising Bike Ride on Saturday, Oct. 19. Generously co-sponsored by the Campbell Law Pro Bono Council, Raleigh Brewing Arboretum in Cary, Crabtree and The Bicycle Chain, the ride had more than 60 participants and raised more than $1,300 for student-led pro bono legal projects that help the local community and beyond. Find more photos at this link.
Campbell Law hosts U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Hoyt for book discussion, signing
Campbell Law hosted U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Hoyt, author of ‘‘A Legal Lynching…From Which the Legacies of Three Black Houston Lawyers Blossomed,’’ at noon on Oct. 16 to talk about his book and his career. The event was co-sponsored by the Black Law Student Association (BLSA) and the faculty Community, Diversity and Student Life Committee (CDSL). “Judge Hoyt’s remarkable career includes military reserve service, private practice city attorney, state court judge, federal court judge and adjunct professor,” explained Professor Lucas Osborn, who clerked for Judge Hoyt after law school. “He has relentlessly served communities and pursued justice. Campbell Law is fortunate to host this remarkable person.” On Oct. 15, members of the Christian Legal Society (CLS) and the CDSL co-sponsored an event at which Judge Hoyt spoke about Christianity and the law. Read more at this link.
Author Valerie Bauerlein to speak at Craven-Everett Inn of Court on Nov. 14
The Craven-Everett Inn of Court is honored to host an evening with author Valerie Bauerlein on Thursday, Nov. 14, at Campbell Law. Bauerlein will discuss her latest book, “The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty.” Bauerlein is a national reporter for The Wall Street Journal who writes about small-town America and Southern politics, economics and culture, according to her bio. She has covered the South her entire career, including 19 years at the Journal and four years at The State in Columbia, South Carolina. Bauerlein, who graduated from Duke University, lives in Raleigh with her husband and their two children. The event is free for Inn of Court members (both dinner and presentation). Non-members may attend dinner and the presentation for $35 or the presentation alone for free. Dinner begins at 7 p.m. in the Pope Foyer with the presentation following at 8 p.m. in Room 105. Register at this link. Learn more at this link.
Second-year students compete in 2024 Rick A. Lord Moot Court Competition
Twenty-seven second-year Campbell Law students competed in the 2024 Richard A. Lord Moot Court Competition hosted by The Old Kivett Advocacy Council on Sept. 26-28. The Old Kivett Advocacy Council is a student organization that organizes internal Campbell Law advocacy competitions each year. First-year students volunteered as bailiffs and time-keepers. Campbell Law alumni and faculty served as Justices for the competition. This year’s champions are Darren Stephens ’26 and Robert Massey ’26. Finalists in the competition were Emily Jacobsen ’26 and Nicole Ohannesian ’26. Amy Bernhard ’26 and Natalie Johnson ’26 were awarded the recognition of Best Brief. The Best Brief runners-up included Thomas Lotito ’26 and William Alfonso ’26. Learn more at this link.
Author Tru Pettigrew to speak at Campbell Law on Nov. 4
Author Tru Pettigrew will speak at Campbell Law at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 4, in Room 105 about his latest book “We Can All Be Bridge Builders.” After publishing his first book, “Millennials Revealed,”in 2015, which focuses on helping organizations understand how to effectively build bridges across different generations, Pettigrew says in his bio he quickly realized the generation gaps were not the only gaps that were hindering the health, growth and development of organizations and their people. Pettigrew then dedicated himself to helping organizations build bridges across all the divides that challenge them most, whether those are racial divides, gender divides, generational divides, political divides or relational divides of any kind. In his most recent book, “We Can All Be Bridge Builders,” Pettigrew provides readers with the blueprint for building healthy cultures of inclusion and developing inclusive leaders in their own corporations and communities. Please join the author for an engaging fireside chat, moderated by Professor Jon Powell ’98, director of the Restorative Justice Clinic, for this celebratory launch of "Bridge Builders." Learn more at this link.
Campbell Law Spotlights
Emily Jacobson ’26 is a second-year law student at Campbell Law School. This year, the Government & Public Sector Section of the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) partnered with the Zoning, Planning & Land Use Section and the Criminal Justice Section to provide joint scholarships to law students who show demonstrated interest in public service and who work in an unpaid summer internship in a federal, state or local government office in North Carolina. Jacobson received a $1,200 scholarship to support her internship with the North Carolina Department of Justice (NCDOJ) Medicaid Investigations Division in summer 2024. Learn more at this link. Julian Manrique '24 is an attorney with the Law Offices of Benjamin T. McLawhorn, where he practices Family Law, Civil Litigation and Estate Planning. He chose Campbell Law primarily due to its regional name recognition. As a first-generation undergraduate and law student, he said he lacked guidance on selecting a law school so he often cold-called attorneys and asked for their advice on what school to attend. He said it was his first experience with how the legal field is happy to mentor and grow the next generation of attorneys. Learn more at this link.
Blanchard Community Law Clinic unveils new video
Blanchard Community Law Clinic (BCLC) students and staff recently created a new video focusing on the Clinic's work keeping residents in Raleigh from being evicted and help with driver's license restoration. Watch more Campbell Law videos at this link.
Campbell Law Alumni Association hosts annual CLE on Oct. 25
Practical tips for going to court, what’s new in employment law, fostering diversity, Title IX, mental health and the importance of mentoring were all topics covered in the Campbell Law Alumni Association annual Campbell Community Continuing Legal Education (CLE) on Friday, Oct. 25. More than 100 attorneys were welcomed by Kristen Beightol ‘01, chair of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, and Mark Scruggs ‘86, Senior Claims Counsel for Lawyers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of N.C., who attended the daylong event at the law school to learn from Campbell Law alumni and earn up to six hours of CLE credit from the North Carolina State Bar. “We are so thankful for our alumni presenters and attendees who make this annual event possible,” said Assistant Dean of External Relations Megan Sherron ‘10, who organized the event with the help of Campbell Law Events Coordinator Sharon Sparks. Learn more at this link. Find more photos of the event at this link.
Spring 2025 OCI – Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are reserved for in-person interviews. Tuesdays and Thursdays are reserved for virtual interviews.
Spring 2025 Resume Collect – All resume packets will be sent on the designated date. Employers will then schedule interviews on their own timeline. For more information, visit this link.
SAVE THE DATE
- Author Tru Pettigrew November 4
- Annual Career Night November 6
- Campbell Giving Day November 13
- Craven-Everett Inn of Court November 14
- Hooding for December Graduates December 14
- Alumni Association U.S. Supreme Court Swearing-In Trip February 24, 2025
- Alumni Association Reunion for Classes of 1980, 1985, 1995, 2000, 2015 and 2020 on May 3
- Campbell Law Hooding and Commencement May 9
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Are you a Campbell Law judge?
If you or anyone you know is a Campbell Law alumna/nus and also a current or past judge, we are expanding our "Judges of Campbell Law" wall we unveiled in 2021! The exhibit honors alumni who have served on a variety of judicial benches. Read more at this link. Please contact Coordinator of External Relations Sharon Sparks at ssparks@campbell.edu or call 919-865-4652 for more information.
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