Category: News & Media

Professor Julie Greenberg has been invited to be on a panel presented by the San Diego County Bar Association and the Tom Homann LGBT Law Association. The panel discussion will take place on September 17 from 5 – 8:45 p.m. at the SDCBA Conference Center 401 West A St., Ste. 120 located on the 1st […]

Professor K.J. Greene will be a special guest speaker at the San Diego Entertainment Industry Mixer (SDEIM) at the House of Blues at 1055 5th Ave. Downtown San Diego on September 12 from 8 p.m. to midnight. Professor Greene is a graduate of the Yale Law School and a full-time professor at Thomas Jefferson School […]

The San Diego Lawyer’s Chapter of the Federalist Society, the TJSL Federalist Society and the Federal Bar Association are co-sponsoring a “Supreme Court Preview” panel on Tuesday, September 17, from 11:45-12:50 in room 225. TJSL Professor Bryan Wildenthal will be on the panel accompanied by local Professors Glenn Smith and Michael Ramsey. Professor Smith of California […]

By Samantha Morales 3L The dedicated members of the Moot Court Honor Society spent their first weekend back in school competing in a two part intra-team competition on Saturday, August 24 at TJSL.  The competition was facilitated by the Moot Court Honor Society Executive Board: Chair, Paul Hefley (3L); Vice-Chair, Kimberly Roth (3L); Competition Coordinator, […]

The Center for Sports Law & Policy at Thomas Jefferson School of Law will proudly present its first white paper, addressing the issue of starting women’s intercollegiate football, at the 2013 Sports Law Conference on Friday, September 20. The conference, led by TJSL Professor and Center Director Rodney Smith, also will feature a session on […]

Rosanna Barajas (3L) and Michael Arellanez (2L) have been selected to represent Thomas Jefferson School of Law at The Peggy Browning Fund’s Fifteenth Annual National Law Students Workers’ Rights Conference at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute (just outside Baltimore, MD) on October 25 – 26, 2013. The Peggy Browning Fund is a nonprofit […]

A recent paper by TJSL Professor Steve Semeraro has been cited in a crucial expert report ordered by the Eastern District of New York in a class action case against Visa and MasterCard, In re: Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation.  “The case is a class action consisting of virtually all merchants that […]

Cameron Oxberry (2L) recently completed an intensive, 10-week externship with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Principal Legal Adviser (OPLA). Oxberry commuted daily from San Diego to OPLA’s flagship office in downtown Los Angeles. “I want to thank everyone in Career Services because without them, this experience would not have been possible,” said Oxberry. “Director […]

The student organization room on the 5th floor was buzzing on Thursday, August 29, as TJSL students gathered at the fall semester Student Organization Fair. “The fair was a great success in that we were able to meet a number of board members from other orgs and get some preliminary plans for future collaboration together,” […]

Danielle Gilbert (3L) is excited that she will be clerking for a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Western District of Texas in Austin.    “I am thrilled to share the news that Danielle Gilbert, our Law Review Editor in Chief, has landed a federal clerkship,” said Director of Career Services Beverly Bracker. “Danielle set her […]

Federal Judge Roger T. Benitez and the founding director of San Diego’s Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League, Morris S. Casuto, are the newest members of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL) Board of Trustees.  The election of the new trustees was announced this week by Randy M. Grossman, TJSL Trustee and Chair of […]

By Jeremy M. Evans ‘11 New Lawyers Division, Board of Directors, SDCBA CLE Co-Chair On Thursday, August 22, 2013, the New Lawyers Division (NLD) and the Entertainment and Sports Law (ESL) Section of the San Diego County Bar Association (SDCBA) hosted a continuing legal education (CLE) panel on “Licensing: Protection of Entertainment and Sports Law […]