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Notre Dame Law Professor O. Carter Snead was quoted last week in a major decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a case upholding a Texas ban...

“Notre Dame Law School has added incredible strength, expertise, and diversity with our new faculty,” said G. Marcus Cole, the Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law.

Pier Paolo Pigozzi ’10 LL.M., ’20 J.S.D. was interviewed August 20 by Paraguay’s PDS Radio about a recent lecture on corruption and conflicts of interest. Pigozzi, who is a law professor at Universidad...

Patrick A. Salvi II ’07 J.D., managing partner of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard’s Chicago office, has been selected as the 2022 Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” for the category Medical…

Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic (EJC) welcomed its first cohort of summer interns. Together, they contributed to over 50 cases for the clinic. The intern group included three...

The Law School's Program on Law & Market Behavior and the University of Lucerne announces a call for papers for the 9th Law and Economics Conference: Law and Economics of...

Newton, who led Notre Dame Law School as dean from 2009-2019, will serve as interim dean at the University of Miami School of Law starting in September.

Krishna Walker received the Rising Star Award at the St. Louis Business Journal’s 2021 Corporate Counsel Awards Event last month. Walker just finished her first year as general counsel for...

Shazzie Naseem, a partner at Berkowitz Oliver LLP in Kansas City, was chosen to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) at...

It is with a heavy heart that the law school announces the passing of Leo Cox on May 17, 2021 in Neptune, New Jersey. Cox was president of his law...

Chip Cavanaugh, a shareholder at Munsch Hardt, a Texas-based mid-sized commercial law firm, was recently featured in the …

The South Bend firm of Tuesley Hall Konopa is pleased to announce that attorney Elizabeth Klesmith has been elected President of the St. Joseph County Bar Association for 2021-2022. Klesmith...

Downey Brand is excited to announce that Rebecca Smith was honored as a 2021 Northern California Rising Star in the area of Land Use/Zoning. Smith practices out of the firm’s...

It is with great sadness that the law school announces the passing of Dennis Cusack of Oak Park, Illinois on July 27, 2021. Cusack, a long-time shareholder of Johnson &...

Monica Patankar, a partner in the law firm of Piccony & Patankar, P.C. in Aurora, Illinois, was awarded the Kane County Bar Association Community Service Award. Patankar received this honor...

John McCarron, a partner at Downey Brand, was named a Top Lawyer by Sacramento Magazine in the areas of Food & Agriculture Law and Nonprofit Organizations.

Freeborn & Peters is pleased to announce that Robert Sikorski has joined the firm in Chicago as an associate in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group.

Chamberlain Hrdlicka is pleased to announce that Umair Karowadia has joined the firm as an associate in the Tax Planning & Business Transactions group in the Houston office. Karowadia focuses...

It is with a heavy heart that the Law School announces the passing of J. Richard Ransel, '74 J.D., on July 12, 2021 in Elkhart, Indiana. He was an adjunct professor...

Notre Dame Law School’s faculty contributed to three amicus briefs in the upcoming Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. O. Carter Snead, a professor of law at...

This story is part of Notre Dame International's Women Who Empower series. Born and raised in Mexico, Regina Castro Traulsen is the general director of the Mexican…