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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According to Inc. , “For such a small state, Rhode Island has a lot of weird food: New York System wieners, Johnnycakes, and our official state drink, coffee milk.” But we also have Del’s Lemonade, “it's not some sloppy gas station slushie; it is the perfect Rhode Island lemonade made with real lemon pieces.“ When Rhode Islanders think of summer, they definitely think of Del’s. Del’s is not just…
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In our last post we talked all about the Rhode Island summer phenom, Del’s Lemonade. In this post, we are talking all about an equally Rhode Island local food, coffee milk. According to a HuffPost headline , “Coffee Milk Is Rhode Island’s Secret Local Drink You’ve Got To Try” and you HAVE to try it! While not uniquely a summer beverage, like Del’s, coffee milk is definitely unique. Here are some…
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Our state has its own lexicon when it comes to wieners and there are definitely some rules you MUST learn to be a real Rhode Islander: Never, ever call a wiener a hot dog. A wiener may have hot dog similarities but according to at least one source , they are different. “There are distinct differences between hot dogs and hot wieners: hot dogs are typically very processed, with a hodge podge of…
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Please join Dean Michael J. Yelnosky and the Law Alumni Association to enjoy a delicious breakfast and welcome the new 2018-2019 Law Alumni Association Board of Directors Please RSVP to the Office of Special Events at events@rwu.edu by June 14
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Melinda Thies realized a long-held dream when she graduated from RWU Law in Spring 2018. After retiring as the Superintendent of the Bristol Warren Regional School District in 2014, the Barrington, R.I., resident had taken the extraordinary step of applying to and entering law school. Back when she was a high school student in Connecticut, an economics teacher told Thies that she had a good mind…, This article originally appeared, in slightly different form, in the May 2018 issue of, The Bay Magazine, . It is reprinted here with the permission of both Ms. Thies and, The Bay, .
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