Conner Greene is spending his 1L summer as a law clerk for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California. Conner is from North Liberty, Iowa, and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Political Science from Iowa State University. We recently checked in with...
Drake Law School consistently ranks as one of the nation’s top law schools for child law and practical training, according to preLaw magazine. The Joan & Lyle Middleton Center for Children’s Rights has been the bedrock of Drake’s nationally recognized children’s rights program for two decades – serving as a local, statewide, and national leader...
A lead gift from McKee, Voorhees & Sease, PLC, has established an endowed faculty position, the Edmund J. Sease Faculty Research Scholar. This position will honor the contributions of Ed Sease, LA’64, LW’67, to the Law School’s Intellectual Property program. Mr. Sease practiced law for more than five decades with McKee, Voorhees & Sease, becoming...
Karen Shaff, LW’79, and Steven Jayne, LW’78, have created permanent funding to sustain the Drake Law School Refugee Clinic. Through the Refugee Clinic, second- and third-year Drake Law students develop important lawyering skills while providing free legal services to individuals who are applying for asylum in the United States and other forms of humanitarian relief....
Sheldon (LW’75) and Terry Fleck (PH’74) have contributed $1 million to create the Sheldon T. and Terry K. Fleck Endowed Law Scholarship. The Fleck Scholar Program provides one renewable, full-tuition merit-based scholarship plus an annual stipend for an entering student each year. The Flecks have provided for two scholarships to be awarded in the inaugural...
Drake’s Hispanic and Latino Law Student Association (HLLSA) presented “Celebrating our Community’s Culture,” an art show featuring works created by students from Des Moines Public School’s Central Campus. HLLSA collaborated with students enrolled in Central Campus’ “Arts and Activism” class to bring the art show to Drake as part of the Law School’s Diversity Week...
Hawthorn Hill and their partner agency, Bidwell Riverside Center (Bidwell), provide life-changing assistance to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity and homelessness in the greater Des Moines community. When these organizations needed specialized advice and assistance on some complex transactional matters, they reached out to the Drake Entrepreneurial and Transactional Law Clinic (“ETC”). Hawthorn Hill...
Brecklyn Carey caught the law bug after participating in a mock trial based on the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton as a middle-schooler in Atlantic, Iowa. She volunteered to be the defense attorney and, while she will be the first to tell you that she had absolutely no idea what she was doing, she was so...
Drake Law 3L Rachel Payton has been invited to speak to a group of women in Belarus as part of World Women’s Entrepreneurship Day. The program is hosted by ProWomen By, a non-profit that provides support and training to women in business in Belarus. She joins speakers from Belarus, Ukraine, and the United States who...
Drake University Law School’s Refugee Clinic partnered with Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice and Lutheran Services of Iowa to help resettled refugees clear the last hurdle in their immigration journeys. Students assisted clients in completing applications for citizenship and submitted them on their client’s behalf. All applicants had already completed a citizenship class taught by Lutheran...