Professor Jerry Foxhoven, executive director of the Neal and Bea Smith Legal Clinic and professor of law at Drake Law School, has been appointed chair of a task force overseeing recommendations regarding the Iowa Juvenile Home.
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Des Moines named ‘Best City for Business and Careers’ by Forbes
Des Moines, Iowa tops our list this year. It is the only place that ranks among the top quartile in at least nine of the 12 metrics we graded the cities on. Highlights for the Des Moines metro include business costs that are 17% below the national average and an educated workforce where 36% of the population has a college degree and 92% possess a high school diploma.
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Transactional and Nonprofits Clinic to open at Drake Law fall 2013
Des Moines attorney Chip Lowe has recently been hired to lead a Transactional and Nonprofits Clinic for Drake Law School. Students enrolled in this clinic will provide comprehensive legal services to entrepreneurs intending to start or already operating a for-profit or non-profit organization.
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Drake Law professor testifies at Iowa Supreme Court
Brent Pattison, Director of the Middleton Children’s Rights Center, testified in support of a proposed Juvenile Court Rule at a public hearing in front of the Iowa Supreme Court on July 9th.
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Drake Law 3L assists with brief for U.S. Supreme Court arguments
To say that Ashley Sparks, a Drake Law 3L, has been busy this summer is an understatement. Sparks works for the Story County Attorney’s Office and in her spare time (her evenings and weekends) she is assisting criminal defense attorney, Angela Campbell, with her brief for upcoming United States Supreme Court arguments.
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Drake Law alumnus takes over as president of Iowa State Bar Association
Guy Cook, LW’82, took the reigns as president of the Iowa State Bar Association (ISBA) in June 2013.
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Q&A with Foreign Service Officer Ryan Hanlon, LW’12
Ryan Hanlon, a 2012 graduate of Drake Law School, is about to embark on another chapter in his life. As a newly commissioned Foreign Service Officer with the United States Department of State, he is currently finishing his initial training at the Department of State and National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington, VA.
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Drake alumni chosen for ‘Lawyers of Color Hot List’
Drake Law School graduates Charles Monterio, Jr., LW’04, and Shannon Redd, LW’10 have been named to the Lawyers of Color Hot List, a group of 100 exceptional early- to mid-career minority attorneys under 40 from the Mid-Atlantic Region who are excelling in the legal profession.
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Employment statistics place Drake among top schools in nation
Drake Law School’s focus on experiential learning not only gives students the tools to practice law, it produces results.
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Drake Law School benefactor Dwight Opperman dies at 89
Dwight Opperman, LW’51, the single largest benefactor in Drake University’s history, died on Thursday, June 13 after battling liver cancer for five months. Funeral services were held on Saturday, June 22 at Forest Lawn in Glendale, Calif.