May, 2016
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Princess Manasseh
3L student Princess Manasseh was recently selected to receive a $5,000 scholarship from the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Foundation. She will be...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
(Part I of II)
Graduates of Miami Law’s White & Case International Arbitration LL.M. program work all over the world with prestigious law firms. (See Part II: "Arbitration Graduates Making an Impact")
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Dexter Whitley is a smart guy. The 33-year-old from Jackson, Mississippi, has a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Microbiology from the University of Mississippi, Medical Center. His Bachelor of Science is from Tougaloo College in...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Tiffany-Ashley Disney and Prof. Patricia Redmond
Miami Law’s Bankruptcy Assistance Clinic recently helped a client fight a creditor who had improperly filed two 1099s with the IRS after a...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Natalie Atkinson, Deepti Orekondy, Sogol Ghomeshi, Robert Santos
After a court battle that lasted over five years, students in Miami Law’s Immigration Clinic won asylum for a Honduran man who fought against illegal logging by...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Neda Ghomeshi and Jacqueline Aleman
For the third year in a row, Miami Law’s Investor Rights Clinic was invited to conduct a mock arbitration presentation at the Palm Beach County Bar...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Trinity Jordan at graduation
Not many can be credited with assisting individuals to establish over 200 churches around the world. Prior to attending Miami Law, Miami Scholar Trinity Jordan,...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Luiz Mirando, Karyn Sanchez, Elizabeth Gill at the Cuban Bar Association
Every semester, Professional Responsibility and Ethics Program Director Jan Jacobowitz and students visit with attorneys at various bar associations to...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Will Harris, Samuel Bookhardt, Kevin Hellman, Justin Boyd
Each semester the Professional Responsibility & Ethics Program (PREP) includes among its diverse audiences those attorneys who work in the public sector. This...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Claire Howe and Jessica Brautigam
In a contentious hearing that tested their litigation skills, Immigration Clinic students Claire Howe, who recently graduated, and 2L Jessica Brautigam, won...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Nicole Pecorella, Elizabeth Fata, Emily Balter, Ashley Morales, Carmelina Forzisi, Stephanie MacLaughlin, Elyssa Luke, Deanna Kalil, and Leslie Coulter
Miami Law’s Center for Ethics & Public Service recently launched a...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Brenda West and Jason Hepperly
Evictions are complicated and confusing for tenants without lawyers. Such was the case of Brenda West and Jason Hepperly, a 3L Certified Legal Intern in Miami...
Wednesday, May 04, 2016
A continuing legal education seminar last week at Miami Law focused on strategies critical to vigorous removal defense for clients in immigration court proceedings, including advocating for a client’s release from detention, raising...
Wednesday, May 04, 2016
Amanda Preston
When Amanda Preston was a little girl growing up in Jamaica, her teachers called her a chatterbox. By the time she was fourteen, so many people had said she would make a good...
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Brett Harris, Carrie Henry and Dan Narciso
Jhanile Smith, 3L
Alejandra Chinea, 1L
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Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Mike Klinkosum, JD '95
Greg Taylor spent 16 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. He missed his daughter’s birthday 16 times, her graduations, her wedding, and...