Category: News & Media

Thomas Jefferson Professor Lilys McCoy is featured on the cover of San Diego Lawyer, which is the magazine of the San Diego County Bar Association (SDCBA). The issue’s cover story is a profile of Professor McCoy, who is the new SDCBA president.  She will bring to that role her passion for the newest members of […]

Meera E Deo has released her book, Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia. Published this month by Stanford University Press, the book details intersectional raceXgender challenges facing women of color faculty. Professor Deo conducted the first national empirical study of law faculty to investigate the experiences of women and men law faculty of […]

Three Thomas Jefferson of Law students received scholarship awards at the annual Pan Asian Lawyers of San Diego (PALSD) and Filipino American Lawyers of San Diego (FALSD) dinner.  The dinner was held on January 31, 2019 at the Jasmine Seafood Restaurant in Kearny Mesa.  The PALSD and FALSD scholarships are to assist individuals in covering  […]

Miguel Pineda (JD/MBA ’19) selected for elite Equal Justice Works Fellowship Joint JD/MBA candidate Miguel Pineda, who will graduate in May 2019, has been selected for an elite Equal Justice Works Fellowship. Beginning in August, Mr. Pineda will be hosted by Human Rights First in Los Angeles, California. The global law firm Greenberg Traurig is […]

Congratulations are due alumna Laura Miller (’93), who on Friday, December 7th was appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to a judgeship in the San Diego County Superior Court. A specialist in family law and fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Miller has run a solo practice since 2005. Prior to that, she […]

The Eighth Annual National Sports Law Negotiation Competition, created and hosted each year by the Center for Sports Law & Policy at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, will be held on March 29-31, 2019. In this unique competition, teams of two students negotiate disputes drawn from the business of sports. They are judged on their […]

The State Bar of California swore in its newest group of attorneys on December 5, 2018, at the Marriot Marquis.  Presiding Justice Judith McConnell officiated the ceremony, which included her colleagues from the Court of Appeal and judges from the Federal District Court for the Southern District of California.  Dean Linda Keller and ASP and […]

On Thursday, December 6, TJSL Professor Lilys McCoy was sworn in as President of the San Diego County Bar Association at the Association’s Stepping Up to the Bar event at the New Children’s Museum. Joining her were a large number of faculty colleagues and administrators, including Interim Dean Linda Keller, President Karin Sherr, Associate Dean […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s 19th Annual Women and the Law Conference, The Way Forward: Gender, LGBTQIA Rights, and Religious Liberties, will be held from 12:30 – 5:00 pm on Friday, February 1, 2019 at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, 701 B Street San Diego, 92101. Registration is now open: https://www.tjsl.edu/conferences/wlc/2019#register This conference brings together leading experts […]

Congratulations to 3L Naomi Butler, who has been selected for the 2018 Thomas Jefferson School of Law Women and the Law Project Appreciation Award. This is a new award, which will be presented to Naomi at the Lawyers Club Fund for Justice Holiday Luncheon on Thursday, December 13. The award amount is $500. The award […]

Thomas Jefferson has long been a pipeline for attorneys into the San Diego criminal law community, and two current students are continuing this tradition.  Third-year students and Criminal Law Fellows Laura Palacios and Marissa Jimenez have just landed very competitive and sought after Graduate Law Clerk positions with the San Diego District Attorney’s Office. As […]

Alumna Casey Amorelli-Oberjuerge (’17) is the Adler Law Group’s newest associate. Casey joined the firm this fall. Casey’s work has special resonance in California. She represents victims of California’s wildfires. In fact, she was recently in the Chico area, meeting with homeowners affected by the Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise, California. As […]