Category: Law School News

Assistant Clinical Professor Jerry Foxhoven, LW'77, recently was appointed executive director of Drake Legal Clinic, one of the nation's top 25 legal clinics.

Drake Law School student Emiliano Lerda, 28, has been appointed to the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service on the heels of winning the Governor's Volunteer Award.

Drake Law School officials recently accepted the E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award from the American Bar Association at the ABA's annual meeting in New York City.

Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. will deliver the 11th Dwight D. Opperman Lecture in Constitutional Law Thursday, Oct. 2.

Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. will deliver the 11th Dwight D. Opperman Lecture in Constitutional Law at Drake University Law School on Oct. 2.

An intense desire to earn a law degree on top of her medical degree led Dr. Deborah A. Turner to squeeze in classes at Drake University Law School between her office hours and surgery schedule.

Drake University gained 128 Law School alumni after the graduates in the class of 2008 donned their caps and gowns at the Law School's Commencement Ceremony this spring.

Drake Law School welcomed a diverse group of prominent speakers to campus this spring. The Law School aims to bring lawyers, scholars and professionals to speak to and interact with students to prepare outstanding lawyers who will promote justice, serve as leaders in their communities and the legal profession and respond to the call of public service.

Benjamin B. Ullem, a senior partner at the Des Moines law firm of Whitfield & Eddy PLC, has been appointed to a one-year term as dean of Drake University Law School.

Instead of joining a law firm after graduation, two Drake University law students are teaming up with the head of one of the nation's largest insurance companies. Their goal is to spur economic development on the Crow Creek Reservation in the nation's poorest county -- Buffalo County, S.D.