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News highlights starring UNLV students and faculty who made local and national headlines.
Steered by President Keith E. Whitfield and UNLV Alumni Association, the first-ever event drew the support of around 100 participants.
2024 Service-Learning Award recipient Rachel Anderson combines passions of community service and teaching for new legal clinic.
UNLV Law School has 14 top 100 programs in publication’s 2024 rankings, including No. 2 ranking for legal writing; Physical Therapy cracks top 50.
A roundup of the top news stories featuring UNLV students and faculty.
Pioneer of Black horror and author of The Reformatory visits Las Vegas on April 5 as part of the Black Legal Futurism conference.
Law In The News
The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has announced its 2024-2025 council slate.
The recent lawsuit brought by Elon Musk’s SpaceX challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) might seem to have little to do with Starbucks. The Seattle-based coffee giant has publicly distanced itself from SpaceX’s frontal assault on the nearly 90-year-old labor law regulator.
At “Meatfest,” the judge and the lawyers were all smiles. Judge David R. Jones, who had worked for years to make Houston a destination for high-dollar bankruptcy litigation, can be seen in an October 2022 photo huddled at the barbecue with local attorneys who brought cases before him and also formed a cooking crew.
Deputy Steven Mills of the Lee County Sheriff’s Office was on patrol one night in 2013 when he received a call about a naked Black man walking down a rural road in Phenix City, Alabama. Mills said the man ignored his calls to stop, but when the officer threatened to use his Taser, 24-year-old Khari Illidge turned, walked toward him and said, “tase me, tase me.” In a sworn statement, the deputy said he shocked Illidge twice because he’d been unable to physically restrain the “muscular” man with “superhuman strength.”
Deputy Steven Mills of the Lee County Sheriff’s Office was on patrol one night in 2013 when he received a call about a naked Black man walking down a rural road in Phenix City, Alabama.
Legal writing is a vital skill for any practicing lawyer. Through these courses, students learn to perform legal analysis and to write clearly and persuasively. These are the top law schools for legal writing programs. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.