Tag: ku law
Updated on May 6, 2021
Graduate Profile: Marisol Garcia, L’21
Student aspires to make a difference in hometown After graduation, Marisol Garcia plans to utilize her legal education in her hometown of Wichita. Garcia plans to start work at Martin Pringle Law Firm LLP as an associate attorney …
Updated on April 23, 2021
Graduate Profile: Zachary Kelsay, L’21
Moot court, mock trial shaped student’s KU Law experience Zachary Kelsay, L’21, has been practicing advocacy skills in mock trial competitions since his undergraduate days. When moot court and mock trial contests moved online this year, Kelsay took …
Updated on April 22, 2021
Staying the course
Life has a lot of moving parts. Sometimes those parts move incredibly fast. Other times moving parts are relatively slow. Every so often, they move in totally unexpected directions. It can be hard work to even keep up …
Updated on April 27, 2021
Graduate Profile: Aidan Graybill, L’21
Exemplary student to pursue career in tribal law Aidan Graybill, L’21, decided to become a lawyer to pursue her dream of advocating for Indian tribes. Three years later, Graybill is turning her dream into reality. Graybill’s legal ambitions …
Updated on March 26, 2021
Adapting the Judicial Field Placement Program to a virtual format
Since 1963, students at the University of Kansas School of Law have had the opportunity to get firsthand experience of how the law works by serving as interns with federal and state judges. Under the supervision of a …
Updated on March 23, 2021
My dog’s journey through Paw School
Mellie, my 4-year-old golden retriever, has spent most of her life in paw school pursuing the prestigious Juris Dogtorate degree to become a full-time pawalegal. In these past few years, we’ve both learned a lot. Here were some …
Updated on March 18, 2021
Helen Phillips finds community at KU Law in small section
Let me just say, starting law school in the middle of a pandemic is a bit odd. Really, everything over the past year has been different, and sometimes really tough. But I do know that I am surviving, …
Updated on February 26, 2021
Valeria Carbajal: Why I went to law school
I’m in the last semester of my 3L year, and it just doesn’t feel real. I refuse to believe that it’s been almost three years since I sat at Green Hall watching one friend draw a cow on …
Updated on February 23, 2021
Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way
As a 3L in my final semester, it seems only appropriate that I use my time on this platform to get unabashedly sentimental about my law school experience. My dear friend, Ellen Bertels, has already taken the time to …
Updated on January 26, 2021
A law student’s guide to Lawrence
It’s hard to believe that I am now in my final semester of law school. The last three years have gone by faster than I could have ever imagined! As I reflect on my time living in Lawrence, I wanted …
