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Elizabeth Knowles ’12 has made a triumphant homecoming to San Diego after spending nearly six months in a litigation-intensive associate position at a Seattle immigration law firm. “I am thrilled to return as the new Director of the ABA Immigration Justice Project (IJP), a public interest organization that I care very much about,” Knowles said. […]

Recent TJSL graduate Richard Younger Jr. ’13 has written an engaging feature story for the July issue of North County Law magazine. It’s a personal and humorous account of his journey from 1L to 3L at TJSL “I live in North County and would like to practice in North County so I wrote the article […]

Brett Bettesworth (3L) is one of four TJSL students who are interning this summer at Qualcomm, the wireless technology giant based in San Diego. “This summer I will be working with Qualcomm’s e-discovery team, responding to discovery requests and dealing with various types of litigation,” said Bettesworth. “ In addition to that, I’ll be focusing […]

Recent TJSL graduate James Hassey is concentrating on his current bar prep studies but says he is extremely excited about his post-bar future. “While interning at The Law Office of G. Cole Casey (TJSL ’96 alumnus) some pretty great things happened to me, even before taking the CA Bar exam.” Hassey explains that during his […]

What is the future of same-sex marriage? That was the title of Professor Julie Greenberg’s lunchtime discussion on June 17 at TJSL. And it’s a future that is very hard to predict. The issue may…or may not…be settled when the U.S. Supreme Court  issues its decision on California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage […]

Sam Kossack (2L) is one of four TJSL students who are interning at San-Diego based wireless technology giant Qualcomm this summer. “I’ll be working in varying capacities with the Qualcomm Legal Department,” said Kossack.  “The main project I’m working on right now is assisting in auditing various licensing agreements Qualcomm has with other companies.  More […]

When TJSL’s first free legal clinic opened its doors on June 13 in Otay Mesa, there was a line of community members waiting to see a lawyer. They came to the right place. The free legal clinics are a joint program of Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Center for Solo Practitioners and Eighth District City […]

By Samantha Morales (3L) TJSL students reunited in our nation’s capital the week of June 10th – not as busy law students studying for finals, but as distinguished summer interns in the Washington, D.C., area. Third-year students Randy Abreu, Samantha Morales and Brittany Walker and second-year student Christina Hebert took the road less traveled to […]

Randolph C. Reliford, Esq., Associate Director of Career Services Brandon Mika, third-year law student, has a great summer opportunity working for the Honorable Joan Lefkow, District Court judge for the Northern District of Illinois. Mika said that he is most excited about “the opportunity to further hone my research and writing skills in a judicial […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s groundbreaking IP Practicum has just completed its first three-week run and has been a major success. The Practicum centered on a fictitious law firm called “Thomas & Jefferson” that specialized in intellectual property law (IP). The partners were faculty and staff members – the associates are TJSL students. During the […]

By Randolph C. Reliford, Esq., Associate Director of Career Services Third-year law student Mathew Work will be working at Joey Gilbert & Associates as a Certified Summer Associate. Even more exciting, Work also signed an employment contract with the firm for a position after graduation. He has worked with this firm previously and is already […]

TJSL May 2013 graduate Ronald Lin will be doing an internship in China this summer at an international law firm named AllBright, based in Shanghai. “Last summer, I had the tremendous privilege and opportunity to attend Thomas Jefferson’s Summer Study Abroad Program in Hangzhou, China,” said Lin.  “Having never been to China and curious to […]