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On April 8, Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Law hosted its final Reception with the Legal Community for the academic year. During the reception, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law faculty presented Strongest Overall Performance awards to students for the 2008-2009 academic year.

On April 12, Greg Taylor told Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law students about his incredible story, spending 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission recently found Taylor innocent after nearly two decades in prison for a first-degree murder conviction.

Every member of the faculty at Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Law contributed to the Law School Faculty and Staff Campaign this year, and 80 percent of the staff at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law contributed, helping to raise substantial funds for law student scholarships.

United States Representative Howard Coble spoke to a group of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law students on April 7, at an event sponsored by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Republicans student organization. Among other issues, Coble addressed the health care bill recently passed through Congress and signed into law by President Obama.

On March 26, Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Law hosted the African-American Male Leadership Summit of the Beta Epsilon Boule. Held annually to support the educational and professional advancement of young African-American males and to provide positive role models and mentorship opportunities, the summit included more than forty students, Boule members, and members of the legal community this year.

Following the results of the February 2010 North Carolina Bar Exam, the combined pass rate for all graduates from Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Law's charter class is 92 percent.

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Law Chapter of the Innocence Project® will host Greg Taylor and Christine Mumma, Esq. as its guests on Monday, April 12 at 7:00 pm in Room 207 of the law school. They will be sharing the story of Taylor’s wrongful conviction and exoneration.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law's office of Career Services invites law students for a panel presentation regarding post graduate judicial clerkships, Thursday, April 8 from noon to 1 pm in Room 204. If you are rising third-year student and plan to apply for judicial clerkships during the summer months or you are a rising second-year law student who is interested in hearing more about judicial clerkships following law school, this is an important panel to attend.

Third-year Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law student Bernard Brown was a panelist at the North Carolina Central University School of Law Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Law Review symposium on March 19, representing the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice PLLC, where Brown serves as a patent agent.