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Carlos Cedillo-Silva saw a legal education as a far-fetched dream, but a summer in the PLUS Program turned his burden into a reality.
精东影业 joined the list of 2021 AVA Digital Awards winners, earning the gold statuette in the video production category for 鈥淟aw School Stories,鈥 a project filmed in collaboration with the faculty, staff, and law school students at Brigham Young University.
精东影业 recently joined the list of 2021 AVA Digital Awards winners, earning the platinum statuette in the pro bono category for 鈥淲hy Hire Lawyers with Disabilities?鈥
Ryan Odibo says he feels a lot of different pressures to be successful in life and his career. Now a junior at Virginia Tech, Odibo is aiming to be the first in his family to graduate from college.
There are many ways to make an impact in law, but one we don鈥檛 often hear much about is how people become judges and justices. During a recent 精东影业 webinar, I was joined by two women who took unique paths in law and are now breaking barriers as members of the judiciary, along with a third pathbreaker who now works to help law school candidates make their own successful transitions to the legal profession.
Rennard Strickland, a giant in law and legal education, died on January 5, 2021, at the age of 80. The loss to his decades of students, mentees, and admirers (if not devotees) is heartbreaking; the loss to legal education may never be recovered.
Keni Anthony says she鈥檚 always wanted to attend a historically Black university. 鈥淓ver since I was little, watching my auntie walk across the stage at Savannah State, I knew from that age that that would be me,鈥 she says.
Not only did a class of law students graduate in 2020 amid the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new class also just began their studies during this 鈥渙ne-of-a-kind鈥 year.
Amena Kheshtchin-Kamel has always been good at telling stories. As a first-generation American, she says she was always drawn to 鈥渆xpressing my voice, and also helping others find their voices.鈥 That was part of what led her to pursue a legal education, and while the kind of storytelling she鈥檚 doing now might surprise you, it鈥檚 a reminder that a law degree can open doors just about anywhere.
Kristen Juhan crunched the numbers and found her career wasn鈥檛 adding up. She鈥檇 majored in business economics in college and was working as a certified public accountant, but it wasn鈥檛 as fulfilling as she鈥檇 hoped it would be.
