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From left to right: Judge Debra Livingston, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Judge David Barron, Notre Dame Law Professor A.J. Bellia, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, George Washington University Law School…

The Wall Street Journal published a feature article about Green Bridge Growers in the newspaper’s Monday edition. Notre Dame Law Professor Jay Tidmarsh’s wife, Jan Pilarski, and their son, Chris...

p(image-right). !/assets/257998/deborah_kunselman_small.jpg(Deborah Kunselman Small)! Judge Deborah Kunselman has been elected to the Pennsylvania Superior Court. In 2005, Kunselman became the first woman to be elected to the Court of Common...

p(image-right). !/assets/257987/oconnor400_small.jpg(Oconnor400 Small)! Nancy O’Connor has been appointed by Catholic University President, John Garvey, as the University’s new general counsel, effective January 1, 2018. O’Connor brings over 41 years of...

p(image-right). !/assets/257944/jamessweeney_small.jpg(Jamessweeney Small)! President Donald J. Trump has nominated Barnes & Thornburg partner James R. Sweeney II to fill a judicial vacancy on the United States District Court for the...

p(image-right). !/assets/257938/john_lynch_small.jpg(John Lynch Small)! Davis Malm & D’Agostine, P.C. is proud to announce that shareholder John Lynch has been named to the list of 2017 Massachusetts Super Lawyers. Lynch practices...

p(image-right). !/assets/257939/masters_loreliec_2_.jpg(Masters Loreliec 2)! Lorelie Masters has joined Hunton & Williams LLP in Washington, D.C. as a partner in the Insurance Recovery Group.

p(image-right). !/assets/257940/traci_griffith_small.jpg(Traci Griffith Small)! Traci Griffith is a professor at St. Michaels College, a Catholic and liberal arts college, in Vermont. Griffith was awarded the college's outstanding teaching award for...

p(image-right). !/assets/257941/john_sawyer.jpg(John Sawyer)! Taylor English Duma LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Jack Sawyer as an Atlanta-based partner in the firm’s Tax Practice Group. Sawyer counsels clients in...

Verus LLC announces that Deborah Zonies has joined the company at their Princeton, NJ, headquarters as Vice President of Mass Tort Services and General Counsel. Zonies will focus on providing...

p(image-right). !/assets/257945/award2.jpg(Award2)! FBI Supervisory Special Agent Thomas Olohan was awarded an “Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in Furthering the Interests of U.S. National Security” at the 65th Annual Attorney General's...

The Notre Dame Law School Moot Court Board recently hosted its Second Annual National Appellate Advocacy Tournament for Religious Freedom. Ten moot court teams from across the country…

I am very sorry to report that Robert F. Biolchini, a trustee and generous benefactor of the Law School, passed away November 8 in Jackson Hole, Wyo.  Bob was a...

Jennifer Klute Hall, ’99 J.D., has navigated the politics of Washington, D.C., drafted major legislation that won congressional approval, and now serves as general counsel at a national trade association...

Martha Jones, scholar on American legal history, tied more than two centuries of debate over the 14th Amendment and citizen rights for former slaves to today’s political debate surrounding undocumented...

By Nell Jessup Newton, Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law I am very sorry to announce that Professor Regis Campfield, founder of the Notre Dame Tax and Estate…

Boehmig is the co-founder and chief executive of Ironclad, a Silicon Valley startup that's aiming to change the way lawyers create and manage contracts.

Alexis Maguiña had no background in accounting when he started working at the Notre Dame Tax Clinic last fall as a 3L at the Law School. Today, a little more...

Paul J. Schierl, Notre Dame Law alum, friend, and benefactor, died on Oct. 23 at the age of 82.

Martha Jones, an expert on the history of the 14th Amendment and how black Americans constructed their rights through legal proceedings, will deliver the second Dean’s Lecture on Race, Law,...