Category: News & Media

By Professor Paul Spiegelman   The team of Yvonne Ruiz and Jacqueline Palacios, won the award for best brief at USD’s National Criminal Procedure Tournament held in San Diego on November 7th  through 10th. Yvonne and Jackie, ably coached by CJ Akselrad also advanced out of the grueling four-session preliminary oral argument rounds and got all […]

Casa Cornelia Law Center celebrated its twenty-year anniversary at the sixth annual Mancha Awards on October 17 at the Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. TJSL alums Juan Guzman ’13, Susanne Prochazka ’13 and Susana Inda ’13 were among the distinguished list of honorees who were recognized with pro bono service awards this year. […]

The Career Fair held at TJSL coordinated by the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) on Thursday, November 7 gave students the opportunity to meet with organizations that serve the public sector.   “I had the opportunity to speak with a variety of organizations including Legal Aid, the Family Law Facilitator’s Office and the Innocence Project,” […]

By Jeremy M. Evans ’11, SDCBA New Lawyers Division CLE Co-Chair   On Thursday, November 7, 2013, the New Lawyer’s Division of the San Diego County Bar Association (SDCBA) and Labor & Employment Division of the SDCBA hosted a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) course on the recent updates and issues with ObamaCare/the Affordable Care Act, […]

TJSL Professor Joy Delman has accepted a position on the Ethics Committee of the UCSD Medical Center. She was asked to serve on the committee by TJSL alumna, Belinda Hein ’89, who is Director of Risk Management and Interpreter Services of UCSD Medical Center, and by Lynette Cederquist M.D., who chairs the committee.     “The […]

San Diego mayoral candidates Kevin Faulconer and David Alvarez will face-off in a special forum Sunday evening, November 10, at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in the East Village, just nine days away from the special election. TJSL students, faculty and staff as well as the public is invited to attend the forum, which will […]

Summit Professional Network’s National Underwriter published two books of the 2014 edition of three-title Tax Facts series authored by Associate Dean William Byrnes and Adjunct Professor Robert Bloink of Thomas Jefferson’s graduate international tax program: 2014 Tax Facts on Investments and 2014 Tax Facts on Insurance & Employee Benefits. William Byrnes explained National Underwriter Company’s […]

By Rosanna Barajas (3L)   On October 25-26, 2013, Michael Arellanez (2L) and I had the absolute pleasure of representing Thomas Jefferson School of Law at The Peggy Browning Fund’s Fifteenth Annual National Law Students Workers’ Rights Conference just outside Baltimore, MD. Also in attendance from TJSL was Ian Seruelo (2L), a Peggy Browning Fellow. […]

The Center for Solo Practitioners, Thomas Jefferson’s lawyer incubator program is accepting applications for its 2014 class. The application period will close on December 5, 2013. Designed specifically and exclusively for Thomas Jefferson School of Law alumni, the TJSL Center for Solo Practitioners supports new solo practitioners as they establish their own law offices. The […]

The Thomas Jefferson School of Law, KPBS and the San Diego Public Library will present a panel discussion on Education, Colonization, and the Law in Native American History on Wednesday, November 6 at 6 p.m., in conjunction with the 2013 One Book One San Diego reading campaign sponsored by KPBS and the San Diego Public […]

By Lucia Valenzuela 2L On Tuesday, October 29th the Labor and Employment Law Association (LELA) held their first event co-sponsored by the Business Law Society (BLS), titled the Labor and Employment Law Careers Panel. The event, aimed to introduce students to the exciting and dynamic fields of labor and employment law.   Members of the […]

Associate Dean William Byrnes recently returned from a week in Moscow (October 21 – 25) where he participated in two conferences, a presentation to the tax and transfer pricing partners at Pepeliaev (one of the largest Russian law firms) and meetings with government Ministry officials.  Dean Byrnes, a renowned international tax academic, was invited and […]