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- New Survey Shows Shifting Attitudes Toward End-of-Life Arrangements
- Wake Forest Law Awarded AccessLex Grant to Increase Pathways to Legal Education
- Legal Deacon Digest – December 2025
- Legal Deacon Digest – September 2025
- Professor John Knox Awarded Prestigious Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy
- Wake Forest Law Welcomes New Board and Council Members for 2025
- Gene Riddle (JD ’85) Shares Lifelong Commitment to Clients, Community, and Family
- Legal Deacon Digest – June 2025
What’s Happening at Wake Forest Law
We asked our students what they love about Wake Forest Law. Here’s what they had to say. ✨
"`A good lawyer is a good communicator with a good mind and a good heart,` says Professor Korzen (`81, JD `91), director of the Appellate Advocacy Clinic, which provides legal representation to appellate litigants in a variety of cases and also prepares amicus briefs. While the research and writing capabilities of generative AI continue to evolve, he says that AI can never replace `heart,` the ability to empathize with clients and understand their goals."
Read how Wake Forest Law’s clinics embody Pro Humanitate through hands-on client advocacy—work AI can’t replicate—while equipping students to understand and navigate emerging technologies. Link in bio. @wfualumni
Throughout Black History Month and always, we are reminded of the words of Justice Thurgood Marshall:
"I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better."
The Wake Forest National Trial Team is headed to Nationals!
This past weekend, the Wake Forest National Trial Team competed at the regional round of the Texas Young Lawyers Association (TYLA) National Trial Competition (NTC).
The competition, which was hosted at Wake Forest Law for the first time in more than 30 years, was held over three days and included five full trials for each advancing team—five opening statements, five closing arguments, 10 direct examinations, 10 cross-examinations, and countless evidentiary arguments.
After advancing through the competition, 3L Caleb Osborne and 2Ls Jordyn Brown and Evan Meerscheidt earned an invitation to compete at the 2026 TYLA NTC National Championship in Dallas this April.
Wake Forest Law’s second team—2Ls Alex Piontek, Leah Necas, and Madison Pope—finished the preliminary rounds undefeated and earned the top seed heading into the semifinals. Alex also received a Top Attorney Award.
A third Wake Forest Law “ghost” team—2Ls Josh Horen and Anna Sweet—competed in preliminary rounds to ensure full competition brackets and ranked in the top half of teams.
The regional competition included 21 teams and 39 total trials across all rounds. It was supported by 74 practicing attorneys and 12 retired/current judges, many of whom are Wake Forest Law alumni.
Congratulations to our incredible students, coaches, and volunteers!
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Caring for our dead is one of the oldest practices of society, yet attitudes and trends around death care are rapidly changing—a suspicion that was confirmed by the results of the recent Wake Forest Law Survey on Consumer Preferences in Death Care. Conducted by Professor Tanya Marsh, the foremost expert in funeral and cemetery law, with funding support from the Cremation Association of North America, the survey sought to understand the attitudes of American adults toward six methods of disposition: cremation, casket burial, donation to science, green burial, human composting, and water cremation. The results, including preferences across generations (see charts), reveal significant shifts and a death care landscape that is far more complex and contradictory than the prevailing narrative suggests. Read more at the link in our bio.
In this episode of Expert Encounters, Professor Mark Hall—one of the nation’s leading experts on health law and public policy—discusses his research and its real-world impact. @4markhall
February is Black History Month, a time to recognize and reflect on the history, contributions, and impact of Black Americans in our country.
Today, we honor that history by highlighting just a few Black leaders in the legal field who broke barriers and paved the way for those who followed:
1. Barack Obama: The first Black president in US history.
2. Thurgood Marshall: The first Black justice of the US Supreme Court, and successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education to help dismantle legal segregation.
3. Charlotte E. Ray: The first Black woman admitted to practice law in the United States (1872).
4. Jane Bolin: The first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association, the first to join the New York City Law Department, and the first Black woman to serve as a judge in the United States.
