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Amid fanfare and celebration, Tulane Law School said goodbye to its 173rd graduating class, the Class of 2024, which overcame the early stages of the COVID pandemic and Hurricane Ida, forcing the start of their law school journey online.
Tulane Law conferred degrees on more than 300...
Webbs extend family legacy with excellence fund
ing up, siblings Ann and George Webb knew Tulane University from the inside out. Their father, also named George, taught electrical engineering for 37 years. Their mother, Dorothy Webb (L ’80), started Tulane Law when Ann was in high school and George III in middle school, one of several women in... Read more May 26, 2017
Quoting statesman Daniel Webster, Chinese philosopher Confucius and even legendary pro baseball slugger Hank Aaron, U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond urged Tulane University Law School graduates to make sure that “justice and equality are more than just words on a page.”
Richmond (L ’98) welcomed members... Read more
Tulane Law School’s 2017 graduation week included presentation of student and faculty awards for academic excellence, leadership and public service. On May 19, student awards were announced and new members were sworn in to the Order of the Coif (17) and Order of the Barristers (10).
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Pro Bono Krewe exceeds expectations
Members of Tulane University Law School’s 2017 graduating class have performed 18,134 hours of pro bono work during their three years of law school. That’s an average of 104 hours per student and far more than what’s required.
The law class of 2017 is the last with a 30-hour pro bono minimum.... Read more May 22, 2017
Professor Jancy Hoeffel endears herself to students inside and outside the classroom: from the way she encourages discussion about tough topics like constitutional protections against police abuses to her generosity with writing advice even for students who haven’t yet taken her classes.
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Tulane University has recognized five members of Tulane Law’s Class of 2017 with university-wide honors for their academic excellence, service and leadership.
Johannah Cousins, Samantha Pfotenhauer and Andrew Waters received the Tulane 34 Award, which is presented to only 34 graduates across all... Read more
American Maritime Cases, publisher of collected volumes of significant maritime law decisions by U.S. federal and state courts and other legal decisions important to the industry, has dedicated its 2016 Annual Bound Volumes to Tulane Law School’s Martin Davies, Admiralty Law Institute Professor of... Read more
On May 1, 21 Tulane University Law School alumni were sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Court bar to be able to practice in the high court.
Dean David Meyer, a Supreme Court bar member who clerked for Justice Byron White in 1992-93, moved membership of the attorneys before the justices, who also issued... Read more
Class of 2017 pro bono work: 18,134 hours
Members of Tulane University Law School’s 2017 graduating class have performed 18,134 hours of pro bono work during their three years of law school. That’s an average of 104 hours per student, multiple times what’s required.
The Class of 2017 is the last with a 30-hour pro bono minimum. Starting... Read more May 03, 2017
Grad argues his way to law school record
Effective courtroom lawyering requires knowing the facts of the case and the applicable law, but also the art of advocacy.
Third-year Tulane Law School student William Igbokwe says he’s spent hours practicing hand gestures and facial expressions, watching lawyers perform and viewing videos of... Read more May 02, 2017
Tulane Law dealmaker confab draws record crowd
Though a Louisiana-style downpour deluged New Orleans streets the first morning of Tulane’s Corporate Law Institute, the mood was sunny among the 600-plus lawyers, bankers and other professionals talking deal making inside the Roosevelt Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Kurt Simon, J.P. Morgan’s global... Read more April 29, 2017
Attorney Kevin Yorn says Tulane Law School attracts adventurers.
And studying with classmates full of ideas and professors from all over the world, he says, opened channels in his thought process that encouraged him to “get outside the lines a little bit and not live my business life in a linear... Read more 
Judge Fallon named Tulane Law Review alumnus of the year
Nominated to the federal bench in 1995 by President Bill Clinton, Fallon has emerged as the nation's go-to judge for complex, multidistrict litigation cases involving thousands of plaintiffs and hundreds of lawyers, including the drugs Xarelto, Vioxx and Propulsid, and the Chinese drywall... Read more April 25, 2017
Judge Fallon named top Tulane Law Review alumnus
The Tulane Law Review honored U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon (L ’62) as its Alumnus of the Year at the journal’s annual banquet April 20.
Nominated to the federal bench in 1995 by President Bill Clinton, Fallon has emerged as the nation's go-to judge for complex, multidistrict litigation cases... Read more April 25, 2017
Tulane Law students win national writing awards
Amanda Crawford (L ’17) has won a Burton Award for legal writing, the third Tulane Law winner in four years in the highly competitive program that celebrates writing in the legal profession.
Allison Skopec (L ’18) has won the law student writing competition sponsored by the Admiralty and Maritime... Read more April 24, 2017