The American Bar Association has published its first set of bar passage rates using new criteria approved by the ABA last year. Every law school is now required to report its ultimate pass rate for each graduating class, which is ...

Tagged with: Campbell Law School

Campbell Law School’s mentorship program has won the 2016 E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award from the American Bar Association, according to a press release from the school. The award comes with a cash prize of $3,500 and will be presented ...

Tagged with: American Bar Association Campbell Law School

On April 17, and for the second year in a row, a team from Campbell University School of Law bested teams from across the nation, winning the South Texas Mock Trial Challenge hosted by the South Texas College of Law ...

Tagged with: Campbell Law School Mock trial

Campbell Law School will launch a legal clinic to provide free legal services to local nonprofit organizations and their clients, the school announced March 31. The funding for the Community Law Clinic, which will open in the fall 2016 semester, ...

Tagged with: Campbell Law School

It’s not unusual for law schools to buzz deep into the midnight hours with the staccato click-clacking of laptop keys under the weight of fingers furiously working away, powered by little other than caffeine and a looming deadline. But on ...

Tagged with: Campbell Law School

Campbell Law School announced Sep. 21 that it has received an $8 million gift, the largest in the school’s history and one of the biggest in the history of Campbell University. The gift, bestowed by Raleigh attorney Gene Boyce, will ...

Tagged with: Campbell Law School

North Carolina’s universities may have had a good March on the basketball court, but its law schools had a less-than-stellar showing in an arguably more important competition — the 2016 U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law School Rankings. Of ...

Tagged with: Campbell Law School

Campbell Law School announced Dec. 11 that it would begin offering a part-time law degree program, joining North Carolina Central and Charlotte School of Law among schools in the state offering such an option. The program, dubbed “Campbell Flex,” will ...

Tagged with: Campbell Law School

It was the sort of thing that might have been commonplace for new lawyers a generation ago, but an opportunity that many of them don’t get these days. Sarah Farris, a third-year student at Campbell Law School, sat across a ...

Tagged with: Campbell Law School lawyers

Even before taking on his latest endeavor, Judge J. Rich Leonard has had a diverse range of interests. A U.S. bankruptcy judge for more than 20 years, Leonard has taken over 30 trips to sub-Saharan Africa as part of U.S. State Department efforts to cultivate judiciaries in emerging democracies and counseled judges in Bhutan, where the country’s chief justice presented him a ferocious mask, at right, that is the symbol of the Bhutanese judiciary. He’s also the author of a children’s novel set in North Carolina during the American Revolution.

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Campbell Law School