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Congratulations to Thomas Jefferson alumna Traci Witry, who was sworn in as the judicial commissioner at the Calaveras County Superior Court. Witry is the first woman to hold that post in Calaveras County, California. As reported in the paper, Witry worked her way through law school as a night shift 911 operator.  She served as […]

Thomas Jefferson Professor Lilys McCoy to be Honored at the Conference of California Bar Associations 2018 Conference of Delegates www.prleap.com The Conference of California Bar Associations will present Thomas Jefferson Professor Lilys McCoy with the Charles M. Pfeiffer Award at its 2018 Conference of Delegates to be held at the Marriott Marquis San Diego from […]

Alexander Pal, 36, of Carmichael, has been appointed chief counsel at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, where he has been acting chief counsel since 2018 and served in several positions from 2013 to 2018, including assistant chief counsel and attorney. Pal was an associate attorney at the Law Offices of Stawicki and Maples […]

During this summer’s 2018 American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, the Law Practice Division elected Thomas Jefferson School of Law Dean and President Joan Bullock as its delegate for a three-year term to the ABA House of Delegates.    Click here to read more.

Thomas Jefferson School of Law is one of only three law schools in California, and the only one in the San Diego, Imperial County, Orange County region with both patent and trademark clinics certified by the Patent & Trademark Office (“PTO”). That office just revealed that TJSL’s student-run patent clinic, supervised by Prof. JD Cowart, has […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law alumnus Lee Vernon, who began practicing law in January 2015, references Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Center for Solo Practitioners during an interview on a podcast hosted by Unbundled Attorney. Lee Vernon also gives credit to the director of the incubator program, Professor Lilys McCoy. “One of the benefits to the […]

The following commentary by Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Steven Semeraro appeared in the July 16, 2018 edition of Fortune: To the extent that reward cards increase a merchant’s revenue through increased sales, the merchant can spread its fixed costs more widely and thus increase its profits. In a competitive market, merchants would have […]

In June, Associate Dean Aaron Schwabach was invited by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland to serve as a speaker and panelist at the Patent Office’s annual symposium in Warsaw; this year’s theme was “Intellectual Property in the Digital World.” Following the introductory address, the conference presentations and panels kicked off with Dean Schwabach’s comparative analysis […]

Students, faculty, and volunteer attorneys associated with the Thomas Jefferson Veterans Legal Assistance Clinic (VLAC) participated in the 38th annual San Diego Stand Down this past weekend. Stand Down is a three-day resource fair for homeless veterans that takes place on the athletic fields at San Diego High School and is sponsored by Veterans Village of […]

Last month, Office of Career Services Director Jeff Chinn and Associate Director Isabel Eustaquio represented TJSL at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego’s (LASSD) Pro Bono Program Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon.  TJSL was given an “Outstanding Service Award” for coordinating law student volunteers with LASSD. The luncheon also recognized individual students who contributed 50 hours […]

Yesterday, the editors at Stanford Law Review Online and Yale Law Journal Online published an important joint collection of essays on #MeToo and the Law. The collection features essays by law professors participating in UNLEASH Equality, a group committed to discussing the legal ramifications of the #MeToo and TIME’S UP movements. Associate Dean Susan Bisom-Rapp noted that […]

As a law student at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Andrea Carter was passionate about legal work in the public interest. Now that she is in legal practice, she brings that passion to her work on behalf of those protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. During 2016 and 2017, thousands of protesters set […]