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...
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Karen Shaff and Steven Jayne pledge $1 million to endow the Drake Law School Refugee Clinic
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....
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A $1 million gift from Sheldon and Terry Fleck establishes the Sheldon T. and Terry K. Fleck Endowed Law Scholarship
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...
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Drake’s Hispanic and Latino Law Student Association hosts “Celebrating our Community’s Culture,” an art show featuring works created by local high school students
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...
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Student Attorneys in Drake’s Entrepreneurial and Transactional Clinic provide critical services to ensure the success of area nonprofits
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...