Category: Law School News

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.

Neil Hamilton, professor of law and director of the Agricultural Law Center, and two Drake law students will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference from Dec. 12-19 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Matt Russell, state food policy project coordinator at Drake University Law School, recently was appointed to the Iowa Farm Services Agency (FSA) Committee under the Obama administration.

Hunter Clark was featured in preLaw magazine in a question-and-answer style story exploring human rights law.

This marks the firm's fifth appearance in the top-10 of American Lawyers' "A-List," including its first place ranking in 2008.

Melissa Heames Weresh received the 2009 Warren E. Burger Writing Competition Prize for her essay that examines the professional identity of novice lawyers.

More than 100 students, including a group of seven from the University of South Dakota School of Law, gathered to hear Taunya Banks speak about Marshall.

He was selected to present the Association of American Law Schools Steven Gey Paper in Constitutional Law at the association’s 2010 annual convention.

The discussion addressed questions Iowans should examine after the state Supreme Court approved same-sex marriage.