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...
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3L Brecklyn Carey Reflects on Law School Career Before December Graduation
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...
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3L Rachel Payton to Speak to Women in Belarus at World Women’s Entrepreneurship Day
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...
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Unique community partnership paired Drake Law students with resettled refugees applying for naturalization
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...
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Portrait of the Honorable Janet Johnson Added to Drake Law’s Sutton Gallery of Distinguished Alumni
Drake University Law School is proud to add a portrait of the Honorable Janet Johnson, LW’72, to the Sutton Gallery of Distinguished Alumni. Johnson was selected as the first female judge on the Iowa Court of Appeals (1978-83) before becoming dean of Pace University Law School (1983-1989) and professor (1983-2011). Prior to becoming a judge...
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2L Caleb Piersma Spends Summer as Legal Intern for U.S. Court of Appeals
Caleb Piersma, 2L, is an intern for the Hon. L. Steven Grasz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Omaha, Nebraska. The internship is designed to give law students an insight into what it looks like to clerk for a judge on the appellate level. As an intern, Caleb has...
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Drake Law second-year student Brandy Bonecher gains valuable experience as an intern with the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Drake Law second-year student Brandy Bonecher is a legal intern with the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) in Des Moines. USCRI is a nonprofit that provides services for refugees, immigrants, and human trafficking survivors. The Des Moines field office provides support to refugees resettling in Des Moines with services such as housing placement,...
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Nicole Miller Gains Valuable Experience As Legal Intern with Meredith Corporation
2L Nicole Miller is spending her summer interning at Meredith Corporation, where she works as a legal intern. Nicole assists corporate legal staff on projects based in intellectual property and promotions law. Nicole answered a few questions about her experience thus far: How did you discover this internship, and what made you want to apply? ...
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Christian Monyei Uses Summer Clinic Opportunity to Gain Valuable Practical Experience
Christian Monyei Jr. is a rising 3L from Lanham, Maryland. This summer, Christian is a student attorney with the Drake Law Criminal Defense Clinic, giving him the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience while providing critical legal services to real clients. Summer clinics allow students greater flexibility and balance in scheduling course work with opportunities...
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Rising 3L Taylor Sellers selected for highly competitive summer internship with U.S. Department of Justice
Rising 3L Taylor Sellers is spending her summer as an intern with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Professional Responsibility Advisory Office (PRAO) in Washington, D.C. The PRAO is charged with providing prompt advice to federal attorneys across the nation with respect to professional responsibility issues. The office ensures that federal attorneys consistently uphold the ethical standards of the profession. We...