Wayne State University Law School

Klaudia Nikolli

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

was awarded a 2013 Outstanding Woman Law Student scholarship by the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan Foundation.

Shivangee Pandya

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

made a presentation on business entity selection during a special event for Quarterly Business Owners that was held at the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights and hosted by the Business and Community Law Clinic with Midtown Detroit Inc.

Robert Thomas

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

has been appointed by the Detroit City Council to the city's Board of Zoning Appeals. Thomas is active in the Program for Entrepreneurial and Business Law at Wayne Law.

Kevin Kresch

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

has been elected as president of the Student Board of Governors for 2013-14. SBG officers for the coming year are Ana Campos, Zach Rowley, Blake Edwards, Justin Hanna, Deborah Johnson, Marcia West, Adam Kessler, Nora Youkhana, Chris Chesney, Henry Ibe and Melissa Brown. Student governors at large are Katie LaForest, Stephen Johnston, Mike Szparaga, Emily Mayer, Chelsey Marsh, Katie Vanderveen, Luke Wolfe, Wade Fink, Angela Strobbel, Nick Jones, Zainab Sabbagh, Lauren Samona, Nishal Patel, Karrine Marcolini, Nadine Yousif and Sumeet Aggarwal.

Robert Johns, Jessica Wayne and Kenneth Cox

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:00:00 -0500

are the members of Wayne Law's environmental moot court team who competed recently at Pace Law School in New York and won the award for Best Brief-Intervenor Appellant. The team also advanced through oral arguments to the quarterfinals of the National Environmental Moot Court Competition. Johns is team captain. Professor Nicholas Schroeck works with team and called the best brief award "a huge honor."

Lynn Bartkowiak

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:00:00 -0500

was named editor-in-chief for the 2013-14 Executive Board of Wayne Law Review. Other students named to the board include Elizabeth Gotham, managing editor; Suzanne Sutherland, production editor; Emily Mayer, executive articles editor; Chelsey Marsh, executive note and comments editor; Stephanie Eisenberg, symposium editor; Angela Strobel, technology editor. Notes and comments editors are Chris Adams, Jane Burke, Josh Noffke, Jessica Russell and Lauren Saad. Senior article editors are Weiling Chou, Andrew Eurich, Erick Hosner, Maryam Karnib, Mark Steiner, Patrick Tully and Courtney Williams.

Kaitlyn Cramer, Jessica Wayne, Bonsitu Kitaba, Klaudia Nikolli and Rachel Hom

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 05:00:00 -0500

will go on to the international round of the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court competition after winning the regional contest in Chicago. Cramer won the regional competition as best overall speaker, the Wayne Law team's brief shared a spot in a three-way tie for third, and Nikolli tied for fifth-place speaker. Hom is chancellor of the team, which beat out 24 other teams in the regional contest.

Steven Helton and Zachary Van Horn

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:00:00 -0500

have been selected to work as interns this summer in the London office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, a multinational law firm with offices around the world. The third-year students will work in the firm's international arbitration group, which includes some of the world's foremost experts in the field.

Kathleen LaForest and Kevin McQuillan

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:00:00 -0500

are winners of the 2012 Arthur Neef Moot Court Competition. The four finalists in this year's competition were second-year students Jake Vorkapich (left) of Canton and Jason Alvarado of Rochester Hills, who argued for the petitioner; and winners LaForest of Ann Arbor and McQuillan of Toledo, Ohio, who argued for the respondent.

Jack Schulz

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:00:00 -0500

, Student Bar Association Board of Governors President, received the Bernard Gottfried Memorial Endowed Scholarship in Labor Law from Terry A. Morgan, regional director, Region 7, of the National Labor Relations Board recently. The scholarship is awarded to a student planning to pursue a career in labor and employment law.