LSU Law News
June 2020
Your Gifts at Work: Eli Medina
June 18, 2020Eli Medina recently wrapped up his time at LSU Law, serving as managing editor of Louisiana Law Review during his final year of law school before graduating cum laude. Now, he’s preparing to move to Houston to begin working for Vinson & Elkins in commercial practice. A 2017 graduate of the LSU Honors College, Medina says scholarships were instrumental to his success at LSU Law. “Compared to my undergraduate experience, law school’s expenses and academic demands are several times greater while opportunities for jobs are severely limited,” says Medina, who received four endowed scholarships during his last year of law…
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47 LSU Law students in the Class of 2020 earn academic honors
June 9, 2020A total of 47 LSU Law students in the Class of 2020 earned academic honors. The Juris Doctor and Optional Graduate Diploma in Comparative Law are awarded Summa cum laude to any student who ranks in the top two percent of the graduating class; Magna cum laude to any student who ranks in the next ten percent of the graduating class (students whose averages place them below the top two percent but within the top twelve percent); and Cum laude to any student who ranks in the next thirteen percent of the graduating class (students whose average place them below the top 12 percent but within the…
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Annie Scardulla ('14) voted LSU Law Professor of the Year by students
June 8, 2020As Advocacy Teaching Fellow at LSU Law, Annie Scardulla spends a lot of time with students, working with them on their trial advocacy skills, coaching moot court teams and traveling with them to competitions, and mentoring students through the Fit to Practice Program that she created shortly after joining the faculty three years ago. “That’s one of the greatest things about my position, I really get the chance to work closely with students and I get to know them on a level that’s so much deeper than a surface level,” says Scardulla, who graduated from LSU Law in 2014 and…
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LSU Law awards 164 degrees to spring 2020 graduates
June 3, 2020LSU Law has awarded degrees to 164 students who completed their studies in the spring semester. Among the graduates, 153 earned a Juris Doctor (JD) degree—with 130 of those students also earning an optional Graduate Diploma in Comparative Law (JDCL)—and 11 earned a Master of Laws degree (LLM). “I am incredibly proud of our Class of 2020 graduates, who not only successfully completed the rigorous LSU Law curriculum but finished their studies under the added duress of an unprecedented global pandemic,” said LSU Law Interim Dean Lee Ann Wheelis Lockridge. “Our LSU Law alumni are successful attorneys, elected officials, business…
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10 LSU Law students selected for induction into The Order of the Barristers
June 1, 2020Class of 2020 LSU Law students selected for induction into The Order of the Barristers are (from left to right, top to bottom): Taylor Brooke Ashworth; Katelyn E. Bayhi; Daniel Wayne Bosch, Jr.; Sarah Madaline Day; Indigo Kate Diekmann; Riley Elizabeth Frank; Michael Wayne Maldonado; Kelsey L. McGill; Juan J. Moreno; and Briana C. Reid. 10 LSU Law students in the Class of 2020 have been selected for induction into The Order of the Barristers, a national honorary organization whose purpose is the encouragement of oral advocacy and brief writing skills through effective law school oral advocacy programs. The inductees, in…
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