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Francis “Frank” Beytagh passed away on February 21, 2016 in Dublin, Ohio at the age of 80. Upon graduation from Notre Dame, Beytagh went on to receive his juris doctor...

Two NDLS students will be in the 86th Annual Bengal Bouts semifinals tonight at 7 p.m. in the Joyce Center Field House. Wesley Chamblee, 1L, and Courtney Laidlaw, 3L, will...

p(image-right). !/assets/184842/waterkotte_patricia2.jpg(waterkotte_patricia2)! Rusing Lopez & Lizardi, PLLC is pleased to announce that Patricia Waterkotte has been promoted to partner. Since joining Rusing Lopez & Lizardi in December 2013, Waterkotte has...

The six law students participating in the 66th Annual Moot Court Competition at Notre Dame Law School have been hard at work finalizing their briefs and preparing for oral arguments....

Notre Dame Law School will welcome Sean B. Seymore, ’01 Ph.D., ’06 J.D., and FedEx Research Professor of Law and Chancellor Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University, back to Eck Hall...

Judy Bernardino has won the prestigious UCLA Extension Writer’s Program Feature Film and Television Writing Competition in her category of Television Spec teleplay. Bernardino’s scrip for the HBO series VEEP,...

p(image-right). !/assets/191192/santori_marco_2.jpg(santori_marco_2)! Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is pleased to announce that Marco Santori has been promoted to partner. Santori is based in the New York office. Santori is a member...

p(image-right). !/assets/191191/toutant_linda_2.jpg(toutant_linda_2)! Linda Toutant has joined the firm of Klinedinst PC as a senior counsel in Los Angeles, California. Toutant is a business litigator with more than twenty years of...

Mary Jo Miller has joined Portland, Oregon-based Ball Janik LLP as a partner in the finance, corporate, and real estate practices. Her practice focuses…

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC is pleased to announce that Greg Parker has been elected a partner in the firm's Nashville office. Additionally Parker has joined the faculty at Vanderbilt...

Peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the country’s principal leftist guerrillas had come to a standstill yet again. One of the longest and bloodiest civil wars in modern history...

By Claudia Tran, 2L You always hear about the generosity and kindness of Notre Dame alumni, but you never really know it for yourself until it changes your life. As...

It is with a heavy heart that the Law School announces the passing of Jerome Frazel on February 6th in Beverly, Illinois at the age of 89. After receiving his...

McManis Faulkner, a San Jose trial firm, is pleased to announce that it has elevated Tyler Atkinson to partner. “Tyler’s appointment is well deserved. He is an excellent trial lawyer...

p(image-right). !/assets/190719/cory_dan2.jpg(cory_dan2)! Daniel Cory has been named a partner at Plews Shadley Racher & Braun, LLP. Cory, working from the firm’s South Bend office, concentrates his practice on environmental, transactional,...

p(image-right). !/assets/190720/heather_walser2.jpg(heather_walser2)! Lavelle Law is pleased to announce that Heather Walser, became an equity partner in the firm located in Palatine, Illinois. Kerry Lavelle, founding partner of the firm, acknowledged...

p(image-right). !/assets/190714/trujillo2.jpg(trujillo2)! Susan Brichler Trujillo, a partner at Quarles & Brady LLP in Phoenix, has been appointed to the Girl Scouts–Arizona Cactus-Pine Council Board of Directors. The Girl Scouts–Arizona Cactus-Pine...

p(image-right). !/assets/190715/j_lamirand2.jpg(j_lamirand2)! Jennifer Lamirand, an associate at Crowe & Dunlevy in its Oklahoma City office, recently joined the firm’s Indian Law & Gaming practice group.

p(image-right). !/assets/190712/reimer_joe2.jpg(reimer_joe2)! Phelps Dunbar LLP is pleased to announce that Josef Reimer has joined Phelps Dunbar’s Dallas/Fort Worth office as counsel specializing in real estate, complex business transactions and general...

Chad Cooper has joined Kaufman & Company, PLLC, a national trial and litigation law firm in the firm’s Cleveland, Ohio office. Cooper has experience in the areas of Business Tort,...

Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin is pleased to announce that Maureen Fitzgerald has been elected a shareholder of the firm. Fitzgerald is a member of the firm’s Professional Liability...

p(image-right). !/assets/190711/tom_gamba_2.jpg(tom_gamba_2)! Tomas "Tom" Gamba, a partner with Gamba, Lombana & Herrera in Miami, was awarded the Florida Chapters of the American Board of Trial Advocates Trial Lawyer of the...

p(image-right). !/assets/190709/ge_gregory2.jpg(ge_gregory2)! Gregory Bohan Ge has joined the firm of Snell & Wilmer in the Los Angeles office. Gregory Bohan Ge focuses his practice in real estate and business transactions...

Burr & Forman LLP is pleased to announce that Sean Dudley has been promoted to partner in the firm's Mobile, Alabama office. Dudley is a member of the firm’s Corporate...

The Chicago office of Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, is pleased to announce that Finn Pressly has been promoted to partner. “Finn is an...

p(image-right). !/assets/190692/dan_salemi_bio2.jpg(dan_salemi_bio2)! Daniel Salemi has been named equity partner at the Chicago law firm Franczek Radelet. He is co-chair of the firm’s Employee Benefits Practice and represents clients in the...

p(image-right). !/assets/187363/80x110/julie_maurer.jpg(julie_maurer)! Julie Maurer was presented with one of five Awards of Professional Distinction from Missouri University of Science and Technology. The award recognizes outstanding Missouri Science and Technology graduates...

“It would be difficult to overstate Justice Scalia’s impact on the law. His jurisprudence touched nearly every area of the Constitution, and he has profoundly influenced the way that lawyers...

Notre Dame Law students James Schwabe, Michael Xavier and Adam Roundy, all 2Ls, were quarter-finalists in the National Baseball Arbitration Competition, hosted by the Tulane Sports Law Society at Tulane...

President Barack Obama is hosting Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at the White House Thursday (Feb. 4) to discuss U.S. aid in Colombia’s historic peace deal. Notre Dame Law Professor...