Category: Law School News

The Law School received $6,800 grant from Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino to support its archival project.

First-year students at Drake University Law School are observing the trial of Andrea LaForge, a Clive resident who faces several criminal charges in connection with a 2007 rollover crash in which one person was killed.

Drake Law School graduates Jason Yates and Dustin Miller are offering free tax preparation and low-cost refund loans to residents of Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Reservation in Buffalo County, S.D.

Brandon Clark, a third-year Drake Law School student, recently spent three weeks traveling to Africa and the Middle East with his band, performing rock concerts for U.S. troops stationed overseas.

Russell Lovell, Drake University Law School associate dean and professor of law, will give a talk on Drake alumnus Charles P. Howard, a renowned civil rights attorney and co-founder of the National Bar Association, at the African American Museum of Iowa.

Drake Law Library will be receiving a Community Betterment Grant of $6,800 to further develop the law school archives.

Luke Meier, assistant professor of law at Drake University, recently was appointed by the Iowa Supreme Court to serve on the state's Task Force for Civil Justice Reform.

Drake law professors Peter K. Yu and Neil Hamilton are sharing commentary through Des Moines Register opinion columns on topics addressed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Drake Law School Professor Melissa Heames Weresh is on a mission to help law students and young lawyers behave professionally and with the degree of formality expected in law practice.

Halley Griess, a third-year law student at Drake University, was elected to the Des Moines City Council during Tuesday's Ward 1 run-off.