Register Today! Applicants admitted to the fall 2018 incoming class are invited to join us on June 8th for a keynote presentation on "How to Prepare for Law School" by Kathy Thompson, Director of Academic Success, followed by an outdoor BBQ/Mixer where students can mingle with their future classmates, current students, RWU Law faculty, and staff. This is a terrific opportunity for admitted…
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It is almost here! That day you have been waiting for since the first day of orientation: graduation day. 3Ls, you have come a long way and the Law Library extends a big Congratulations! to you all. Law School Commencement will take place on Friday, May 18th at 1:00 p.m. In preparation for the big day, why not take some time to listen to some of the “ best commencement speeches, ever ” and get…
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A dyed-in-the-wool Rhode Islander, John W. Caruolo earned his undergraduate degree at Brown University, and then decided to take advantage of RWU Law’s status as Rhode Island’s only law school to get the academic and experiential chops he needed to succeed in the legal profession. “I did my due diligence, comparing what schools in the Boston area were offering,” Caruolo recalls. “Part of the…
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Molly Hamlin was born and raised in Oregon, and that’s where she’ll be putting her law degree to work – starting as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Debra K. Vogt, Presiding Judge of the Lane County Circuit Court in Eugene. (According to a 2018, preLaw, Magazine survey, RWU Law has the nation’s sixth highest percentage of graduates entering clerkships – the “royal road” to the legal profession.) “Judge Vogt has a lot of history in the field,” Hamlin says. “She told me, ‘When I’m in the courtroom, you’ll be in the courtroom.’ So the clerkship should provide a lot of good experience, watching the proceedings; seeing attorneys at work.” How did…
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From The Providence Journal :, PROVIDENCE, R.I. —, Many, many steps lead up to a trial. Evidence is gathered. Documents are produced. Witnesses are interrogated. The questioning of witnesses during depositions was the focus of a recent Litigation Academy in U.S. District Court. The program, now in its fourth year, is designed to help lawyers, young and old, hone their skills under the guidance of state and federal judges and seasoned…, For full story, visit The Providence Journal .
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Founding faculty member, two-time interim dean, master mediator – Professor Bruce I. Kogan has been all these and more, and his name is now permanently ensconced at Roger Williams University School of Law’s experiential campus in downtown Providence. On April 26, 2018, the RWU Law community gathered in Providence to recognize Professor Kogan’s remarkable contributions by dedicating the…, Wearing Many Hats, Professor Andy Horwitz, RWU Law Assistant Dean for Experiential Education, reminded those gathered not to forget “what an incredibly gifted teacher” Professor Kogan has been over the years. “There is not a kind of class you can identify in a law school curriculum that Bruce has not taught,” Horwitz said. “He has run the gamut from very large doctrinal classes to seminar classes to simulation-…, any, community – our law school, the town we live in, our bar association. We have a responsibility, a citizenship of sorts, and we should feel that what we have contributed has been positive and constructive.” They are words he lived by. In an application requesting emeritus status for Professor Kogan, Dean Yelnosky wrote: “Nobody has worn more hats at the law school than Bruce, and his performance…, “Mediation is not easy work. It takes complete focus and the ability to process, in real time, everything that is occurring in a complex and rapidly changing interpersonal dynamic. It requires patience, persistence, objectivity and creativity to guide antagonists away from focusing on a bad past history and help them look to the possibilities of the future.”, ~ Professor Bruce Kogan, A Distinguished Career, Professor Kogan’s career has been dedicated to providing his students with practical opportunities to apply what they learn in the classroom, whether by mediating under his supervision in the Rhode Island court system or participating in local zoning board hearings. Long active in the Rhode Island legal community, Kogan is a co-founder and past president of the first non-profit organization for…, A Practical Guide to Divorce in Rhode Island, , 2009). In addition to Dispute Resolution, Professor Kogan regularly taught Property and Trusts and Estates. Prior to joining RWU Law, Kogan served as an appellate attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and then practiced law for almost ten years in Pennsylvania, concentrating on taxation, business and estate planning, for-profit and non-profit corporations, and real…, All gifts in honor of Professor Kogan’s retirement will be used to help us recognize his remarkable contributions.,
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A cool, breezy, partly sunny day on Mt. Hope Bay provided a classic “spring in New England” backdrop as immigration advocate Marielena Hincapié delivered a rousing address to the 130 graduates of the Class of 2018 during Commencement exercises here Friday. Hincapié, who has served for the past decade as executive director of the Los Angeles-based National Immigration Law Center – the only…, scintilla, of trouble for any of the, aforementioned, graduates, under the, totality of the circumstances, , it would be, impracticable, not to rely on each other.”
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