Student Life
Graduate Profile: TJ Blake, L'20
TJ Blake, L'20Student succeeds with engagement outside the classroomTJ Blake took a tireless approach to law school.From spending late nights preparing for moot court competitions to serving as managing editor for the Kansas Law Review, Blake found success in engaging in activities outside the…
Graduate Profile: Tara Mollhagen Shepherd, L’20
Tara A. Mollhagen Shepherd, L’20Exemplary student to pursue career in business and tax lawTara A. Mollhagen Shepherd, L’20, plans to use what she learned in the classroom at the University of Kansas School of Law to succeed at a career in business and tax law.“I’m excited to start a career in…
Graduate Profile: Harrison Rosenthal, L’20
Harrison Rosenthal, L'20Dual-degree student pursues law, journalism and well-beingOn the way to earning KU degrees in law and journalism, recent graduate Harrison Rosenthal made well-being a priority.In 2018, he founded the Mindfulness in Law Society of the University of Kansas, a student…
Graduate Profile: Sasha Raab, L’20
Sasha Raab, L'20Nontraditional student balances law school, being a momWhen Sasha Raab sat for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), her daughter Edith was six weeks old. Now, Raab is wrapping up her law school career in the top 10% of her class and Edith is 3 years old.Raab was able to balance law…
Graduate Profile: Terra Brockman, L’20
Terra Brockman, L’20 Outstanding graduate distinguishes herself through leadership, serviceTerra Brockman has distinguished herself through leadership and service at the University of Kansas School of Law. Brockman, a third-year law student, will graduate this month. She has led the student…
Graduate Profile: Denise Dantzler, L'20
3L Denise Dantzler delivers the welcoming address at the 2020 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy Symposium. Dantzler is the editor-in-chief of the publication. Photos by Ashley Golledge.Accomplished student to pursue career in patent lawThird-year law student Denise Dantzler is a trailblazer…
Graduate Profile: Cara Beck, L'20
Cara Beck, L'20. Photo by Ashley Golledge.Dedicated student is headed to federal clerkship after graduationCara Beck’s favorite memory of her time in Green Hall is a noisy one.Her 1L small section, taught by Professor Ellen Sward, was competing in the 2017 Barber Emerson Bluebook Relays, an annual…
Former Naval Aviator Uses Flight School Lessons to Succeed in Law School
Second-year law student Jared Jevons spent 11 years in the Navy before coming to law school. Jevons is pictured over Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean. Photo courtesy of Jared Jevons.Naval aviators consider themselves professionals. We did so (and Naval aviators continue to do so)…
Skills Taught Through Online Learning will Allow Law Students to Excel in New Legal Landscape
Photo by Ashley GolledgeIn his Mediations, Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, had the following wisdom to share regarding human beings often fraught relationship with our own future:"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm…
Public Service in Changing Times
Photo by Ashley GolledgeI didn’t want to write this blog post about coronavirus. I had a whole spiel prepared about career paths and joy and risk and success. But as my friend Jake Schmidt laid out, everything is uncertain right now. It feels dishonest not to talk about the seismic shift that’s…