8:30 a.m. Registration - School of Law | 2nd Floor Atrium 9:00 a.m. Summit Begins Individuals who would like to attend the Open Government Summit need to register with the Rhode Island Office of Attorney General. Seating is limited. Registration for the event may be made by calling (401) 274-4400, ext. 2101, or by sending an email to agsummit@riag.ri.gov . Individuals may submit questions in…, Special Accommodations:, Persons who, because of a special need or condition, would like to request an accommodation for an event should contact the Office of Programs & Events at lawevents@rwu.edu , as soon as possible, but no later than 72 hours before the event, so that appropriate arrangements can be made.
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Sponsored by the Student Bar Association 6:30 PM Meet & Greet 7:30 PM Dinner and Dancing Omni Providence Hotel One West Exchange Street Providence, Rhode Island , OVERNIGHT SPECIAL ROOM RATE:, A limited amount of overnight rooms are available at a reduced nightly rate of $112 at the Omni Providence Hotel. Reservations may be made directly by calling Omni Reservations Line at 1-800-525-9300 and mentioning the 2020 RWU Law Barrister’s Ball Room Block or by clicking the following link: OMNI HOTEL OVERNIGHT SPECIAL ROOM RATE All reservations must be made before February 7, 2020. Check…, TICKET REFUND POLICY:, RWU Law Barrister's Ball tickets may be refunded if the request is received in writing to lawevents@rwu.edu by February 3, 2020. The University Ticket processing fees are forfeited., Special Accommodations, Persons who, because of a special need or condition, would like to request an accommodation for this event should contact the Office of Programs & Events at lawevents@rwu.edu , as soon as possible, but no later than 72 business hours before the event, so that appropriate arrangements may be made.
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When Christine Awe ’19 decided to spend her final semester at RWU Law taking part in the school’s D.C. Semester in Practice program – she’d been placed in an externship with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) – she was ready for a firsthand, real-world legal experience. She got more than she bargained for. Just as Awe was preparing to leave for Washington, President Trump declared a…
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Today’s blog post is about Elleanor Eldridge, a woman of color born in Warwick who owned property on Spring Street in Providence. In 1827. Wow! The life of Elleanor Eldridge is amazing. She was likely born in 1784, her father was a freed slave and her mother was part Narragansett Indian. Elleanor’s mother died when Elleanor was only 10. Elleanor went to live as a servant for a local family and…, Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge, can be found online. The memoir, republished by the West Virginia Press , “because of Eldridge’s exceptional life as a freeborn woman of color entrepreneur…constitutes a counter-narrative to slave narratives of early nineteenth-century New England, changing the literary landscape of conventional American Renaissance studies and interpretations of American Transcendentalism.” Sadly, Spring Street…
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Students, faculty, staff gathered at the Bravo Bistro in Providence Thursday to bid farewell to a much-admired colleague, Deborah Johnson, who has served since 2011 as RWU Law’s Director of Diversity and Outreach – not to mention a professor of insurance law and contract drafting, among the many other hats she wore here. Johnson will be fulfilling her lifelong goal of teaching full time, as she…
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20th Annual RWU Law Alumni Association Scholarship Golf Tournament, Saturday, September 7, 2019, *Rain or Shine, All net proceeds benefit the RWU Law Alumni Association Endowed Scholarship Fund, 12:00 p.m. Registration & Lunch, 1:30 p.m. Shotgun Start, Cranston Country Club, 69 Burlingame Road, Cranston, RI, , Following tournament play ~ Reception, Dinner, Prizes, RWU Student and Young Alumni Rate* - $75 (*applies to 2018 - 2019) RWU Law Alumni Player Rate - $125 Firm/Corporate Foursome Rate - $1,000 (includes tee sign) Tee Sign Sponsorship - $150 Sponsorship Opportunities Available. , Tournament Co-Chairs:, Tom Pagliarini '14 & Layi Oduyingbo '14, Honorary Co-Chair:, Anthony Leone '97 Lunch sponsor: Marasco & Nesselbush logo for Marasco & Nesselbush Firm & Corporate Sponsors: logo CCK logo for HCC logo for Hinckley Allen logo for Pannone Lopes Trustee Linn Foster Freedman, Esq. and Dr. Steven Freedman logo for Schectman Halperin Savage For questions, please contact the Office of Law Alumni Relations at lawalumni@rwu.edu or (401) 254-4541
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5:30 PM Registration 6:00 PM Program with Reception to follow Omni Providence Hotel One West Exchange Street Providence, RI Join us for our 2019 Professor Anthony J. Santoro Business Law Lecture Series where an experienced panel of lawyers and business people discuss what makes a good business lawyer. Our diverse panel brings together the in-house counsel, attorney in private practice, and…, Meet the Panelists: , Collin Bailey, , an alum of Roger Williams University School of Law, is the senior director for strategic procurement at CVS Health. In this in-house counsel role, he manages the CVS Health Procurement to Payment Program, as well as all non-merchandise contracts, supplier performance management, and non-merchandise purchasing compliance. Collin also brings his past experience as a solo practitioner and as a…, Tracy Baran, is General Counsel at Ocean State Job Lot, a regional retailer of 140 stores throughout New England, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. She has been named In-House Leader, Leaders in the Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Tracy also brings her experience as a former law firm partner focusing on commercial real estate and commercial lending. image of Mary Kay Koreivo, MaryKay Koreivo, is Senior Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager of Business Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She has a degree in finance and a Masters in Business Administration. MaryKay brings her over twenty-five years of business experience to the panel. , Anthony Marini, , also an alum of Roger Williams University School of Law, is Director of Contracts within Procurement at CVS Health. Anthony brings his experience of leading an in-house contract negotiation team. image of Alicia Samolis, Alicia Samolis, , an alum of Roger Williams University School of Law, is a partner at Partridge, Snow & Hahn and chair of the firm's Labor & Employment practice. Her practice includes advising company managers and executives regarding a broad range of employment issues, as well as defending employers against claims brought by their employees in court and administrative agencies. She is a Providence…
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The RWU Law and Roger Williams undergraduate communities turned out in force Saturday for Providence’s 2019 Rhode Island PrideFest celebration, culminating in a unique and spectacular Illuminated Night Parade. Drawing heavy attendance from across the state and around the country, this year's Pride event—themed “Live Your Truth”—was billed “a celebration of love, respect and joy.” It has come to…, The Providence Journal, . “Now, it is everybody.” Banks and other corporate establishments hung out rainbow flags; Democratic politicians mixed and mingled with celebrants. Many speculated that the large turnout and high enthusiasm were in part a reaction to a recent statement by Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence that Catholics should not support Rhode Island Pride, as well as Washington’s more hostile…, Journal, . “People are feeling put upon, and to lessen that, the best thing is love.”
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As Roger Williams University School of Law celebrated its 25th anniversary over the past year, the school enjoyed the privilege of having become an integral part of the Rhode Island and regional legal profession and the community at large. Throughout the 2018-19 academic year,, RWU Law e-newsletter, examined different aspects of the school’s evolution over that period in the areas of diversity, experiential learning and public interest. In this final installment of the series, the focus is on affordability. Just over a decade ago, as the Great Recession ravaged the U.S. economy across multiple industries, the bottom fell out of the nation’s legal education sector. Applications dropped…, Affordable Excellence, In its most dramatic response to the changing landscape of legal education, RWU Law introduced its Affordable Excellence initiative, reducing tuition by 18 percent in 2014. In addition, the school guaranteed that tuition would not increase during a student’s three years of law school, and did not increase tuition for an incoming class until 2018. These moves made RWU Law the best-priced ABA-…, value, of a law degree was not in sync, in many instances, with the, cost, of that law degree; that the return on investment started to decrease when the recession hit. It seems an obvious adjustment to make in retrospect, but in real time it was unsettling because it was uncharted territory.” The results were swift and tangible: enrollment stabilized and then began to creep up again. The move also won the school recognition in national media. The, Wall Street Journal, called out RWU Law as one of “a handful of U.S. law schools” that had successfully boosted enrollment in a down economy by reducing tuition. The, New York Post, added, “Good for these law schools for working to give their students more bang for the college dollar,” again singling out RWU Law for praise. “The smarter schools will follow.” “It was a bold statement that we weren’t just like every other law school,” says Yelnosky. “We did something that virtually nobody else had done. And it gave us, I think, the sense that we could be more than just passive…
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