Digital Fitness Startup Receives Valuable Legal Help from Entrepreneurship Clinic

Digital Fitness Startup Receives Valuable Legal Help from Entrepreneurship Clinic

Cavan Canavan, MBA '12, wanted an easy way to keep track of the lifting and strengthening exercises that were part of his conditioning routine. But in a fitness industry chock-full of gadgets and devices, he was surprised to discover there wasn't a product that met his needs.

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Alum-Turned-Adjunct Honored for Work with ITC, Habitat for Humanity

Alum-Turned-Adjunct Honored for Work with ITC, Habitat for Humanity

Adjunct Prof. Carl Valenstein says there were two important messages delivered when his firm, Bingham, recently honored him with a public service award for his work setting up a microfinancing fund with Michigan Law's International Transaction Clinic and Habitat for Humanity.
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Ready for the Real World

Ready for the Real World

Like many first-year law students, Taylor Garrett, '03, assumed that after graduation he would head off to work at a law firm. He couldn't quite see the path that led there, but he took it as a given that sooner or later he'd end up on it.
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MLaw Students, Alums Find Camaraderie on the (Hockey) Bench

MLaw Students, Alums Find Camaraderie on the (Hockey) Bench

There is no shortage of rules in the game of hockey or in the practice of law, but just one in the locker room of Michigan Law's ice hockey team.
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MLaw Grads Claim 100 Clerkships for 2013

MLaw Grads Claim 100 Clerkships for 2013

For the second time in a decade, at least 100 recent Michigan Law graduates have secured coveted clerkships in judges' chambers across the country—and overseas, as well.

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One Year Later, Exoneree Still Adjusting

One Year Later, Exoneree Still Adjusting

Phones that aren't plugged into the wall. Phones that take pictures and play music. Phones that go on the Internet. The Internet itself, for crying out loud.
 
All new to Michigan Innocence Clinic exoneree David Gavitt.
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Interest in Energy Law Drives New Course Offerings, Student Group at MLaw

Interest in Energy Law Drives New Course Offerings, Student Group at MLaw

Michigan Law's energy law-related courses have increased fourfold in the last year alone as student interest has spread across the energy spectrum, from renewables to issues associated with more traditional forms. Student group MEnergy has led the charge on behalf of students for more energy law offerings in the curriculum.
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Ann Arbor's Song of Summer

Ann Arbor's Song of Summer

Michigan Law's Summer Starters may get an academic head start on the rest of the student body, but they also get a few intangible benefits -- not least of which is living in Ann Arbor during the laid-back summer months.

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Michigan Business Breakthrough Benefits U-M Startup

Michigan Business Breakthrough Benefits U-M Startup

Internal bleeding can be a life-threatening problem even when it happens in the controlled environment of Tier 1 trauma centers like those at the University of Michigan Health System. In remote villages in Ghana, it's too often fatal.
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Research Scholars Study Caselaw-in-the-Making as EU Battles Financial Crisis

Research Scholars Study Caselaw-in-the-Making as EU Battles Financial Crisis

These are landmark times in the legal system of the European Union, Michigan Law research scholars Samo Bardutzky and Elaine Fahey say. Together with the Michigan Journal of International Law, the pair have prepared an Emerging Scholarship symposium that examines judicial response to the Eurozone crisis.

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Summer Starters Begin Their Student Careers With Integrity Pledge

Summer Starters Begin Their Student Careers With Integrity Pledge

For Michigan Law's incoming Summer Starters, the first order of business is integrity.
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If the PHID House Could Talk

If the PHID House Could Talk

At the age of 99, the Georgian manse of Phi Delta Phi lives on like a roguish old gentleman, enjoying the peace of old age but still smiling over memories of a wild youth.

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A Family for Feleke

A Family for Feleke

Before the lost visas and passports, before the treacherous travel and the frantic search for prednisone somewhere in the middle of Ethiopia, before one father asked another to keep his son on the other side of the world—before all of that, Kyle and Ruth Ann Logue had a conversation.
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Interactive Map Shows Global Reach, Diverse Careers of MLaw Grads

Interactive Map Shows Global Reach, Diverse Careers of MLaw Grads

Michigan Law's reputation and global reach means that, after you complete your education, there is virtually no limit on where you can go. Our new interactive feature highlighting employment statistics demonstrates that geographic reach and details the diverse legal work our graduates do.
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Phi Delta Phi, the oldest of the three international law fraternities, was founded at Michigan in 1869. The Phids were always a little older and more sophisticated than the undergraduate societies, and they soon became notorious for social outlawry. More...

100 Things: What makes Michigan Law so special? There are at least 100 reasons. We've taken the liberty of highlighting them for you, so sit back and enjoy. More...

Roopal Shah—a 1995 MLaw graduate who has a background practicing law for the government and in the private sector, as well as starting a nongovernmental organization in India—has been named assistant dean for international affairs. More...

Slideshow: 1L Emerson Girardeau III is the recipient of the 35th annual Alden J. "Butch" Carpenter Memorial Fund Scholarship, which is awarded each year to first-year Michigan Law students who exemplify its namesake's ideals.

1L students launch a new speaker series called TALK that seeks to build community and compassion among peers. More... 

Slideshow: The South Asian Law Students Association hosted its own Holi celebration on March 30. Holi, known as the Hindu festival of colors, involves coating participants with colorful powder in a gesture of good will and camaraderie. 

MLaw students, on the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision Gideon v. Wainwright, gathered during a lunchtime talk to hear experts discuss the current state of indigent representation in Michigan and elsewhere. More...

NPR's Michele Norris made a stop at the Law School as part of the Race Card Project, which aims to have an open dialogue with students and others about race. More...

When Michigan Law 2L Kelly O'Donnell set off for Belize this spring, she wasn't in pursuit of the sort of color one might associate with a Caribbean destination. More...

Michigan Law's Headnotes traverse the Law School on Valentine's Day, springing tuneful surprises on unsuspecting students, professors, and staff: video.

Annual events Mr. Wolverine, Valograms, and Midway Madness are a unique part of the student experience: slideshow.

They aren't ordinary dinner parties, but Michigan Law's at-home mini-seminars for 2Ls, 3Ls, and LLM students are popular offerings that make the grade. More... 

When the Lawyers Club reopens in fall 2013, residents will experience more than renovated living spaces. They'll also have an opportunity to gather in 11 new Club Rooms designed to foster community and camaraderie. More...

Slideshow: The Michigan Law community hosts its annual culture show, a rousing celebration of music and dancing.

Adjunct Prof. Curtis Mack, LLM '73, offers lessons on giving back and paying it forward. More...

Collegiality finds a home at Aikens Commons: video.

Visiting Prof. Karthy Govender ties together King, Mandela, and Gandhi during MLK Day talk focusing on the struggle for human rights. More...


Christine Gregory, '96, knows how important the Michigan Access Program (MAP) can be for students, because when she was a student, the program was a fundamental part of her success. More...

Clerking on Germany's highest court wasn't necessarily on Judith Schmidt's radar when she arrived at Michigan Law to begin her LLM studies in 2008. More...

Denise Brogan-Kator, '06, who runs the Rainbow Law Center in Ann Arbor along with partner Mary Kator, was a featured speaker at MLaw on cross-cultural lawyering. More...

Before the lost visas and passports, before the treacherous travel and the frantic search for prednisone somewhere in the middle of Ethiopia, before one father asked another to keep his son on the other side of the world—before all of that, Kyle and Ruth Ann Logue had a conversation. More...

Are evangelicals underrepresented among America's legal elite? It is a question that has intrigued Michigan Law Prof. Dan Crane for more than a year and one he revisited this month while guest blogging for the Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University Law School. More...

Slideshow: The Law School Student Senate hosted the spring semester faculty wine and cheese reception, which offers the chance for students and faculty to interact in a casual setting away from the classroom.

Clinical Assistant Prof. Nancy Vettorello, '97, is named the 2013 L. Hart Wright Award recipient, thanks to the efforts of former and current students who banded together to honor their well-respected teacher. More...

Michigan Law's Human Trafficking Clinic, led by Prof. Bridgette Carr, '02, battles for the rights of modern-day slaves. More...

MLaw professors discuss same-sex marriage cases during a recent lunchtime talk. More...

A roomful of prospective Michigan Law 1Ls got a firsthand look at a sampling of faculty members—and what they can expect to learn from those faculty members—during Preview Weekend. More...

Prof. James Hathaway, director of MLaw's Program in Refugee and Asylum Law, is one of a small number of globally regarded refugee law experts, and has helped to develop MLaw into a center of scholarship and education in the field. More...

Michigan Law's new Child Welfare Appellate Clinic, scheduled for launch this fall, aims both to raise the bar on legal writing and to improve appellate representation of people whose parental rights have been terminated. More...

Sometimes an off-color joke can be more culturally revealing than a philosophical tome.... Prof. Don Herzog had surmised as much, and his research confirmed it. More...


It looks a little like a clinic. It looks a little like an externship. But the new Michigan Law Transactional Lab, coming this fall, is actually neither. More...

Prof. Sam Gross is the editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint project of Michigan Law and Northwestern University School of Law. The database lists all known exonerations in the United States since 1989.

Mark D. West, associate dean for academic affairs at Michigan Law and a highly regarded scholar whose research focuses on the Japanese legal system, will be the 17th dean of the Law School beginning Sept. 1, 2013. More...

As oral argument approaches in a Supreme Court case challenging a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Prof. Ellen Katz and the Voting Rights Initiative argue that the VRA's regional provisions continue to provide vital protection to minority voters in the places where they apply. More...

Adjunct Prof. Curtis Mack, LLM '73, offers lessons on giving back and paying it forward. More...

No point is ever moot when you're preparing to argue before the United States Supreme Court. Hence the widespread practice of...mooting... More...

Prof. Rebecca Scott's book Freedom Papers recently won two prestigious awards. More...

It wasn't long ago that Eve Brensike Primus, '01, was a student copiously studying from Modern Criminal Procedure. Now, she's an MLaw professor who not only uses the casebook in class, but coauthored the latest edition. More...

Prof. David Uhlmann, director of the Environmental Law & Policy Program, pens "Toward A Sustainable Future: An Environmental Agenda for the Second Term of the Obama Administration." More... 

Prof. Sonja Starr's research shows large unexplained gender disparities in federal criminal cases. More...

Messages of inclusion, passion, and determination infuse the Senior Day address delivered by MLaw alumnus Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, on May 12. More...

Starting life from scratch after being wrongly imprisoned for 27 years for murder and arson is no easy task. One yeaer later, David Lee Gavitt, exonerated thanks to the efforts of Michigan Law's Innocence Clinic, can attest. More...

Directors, general counsels, and senior executives of U.S. businesses were given practical guidance about navigating an increasingly challenging global business landscape at a program presented by Michigan Law's Directors' College for Global Business and Law. More...

William Bock III, '89, and Betsy Andreu, BA '89, spoke at an April Law School event about ethical lessons learned from the Lance Armstrong doping case. More...

The Detroit Center for Family Advocacy has achieved high rates of success in its efforts to keep kids out of foster care and with family members, according to a new report by an outside evaluator. More...

Former Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner visited the University of Michigan Law School April 18, for an off-the-record conversation with Michigan faculty and students from across the University. More...

Life Behind Bars: Former prisoner Khalil Shabazz spoke to law students about spending time in solitary confinement in a Michigan prison. Shabazz's talk was presented by MLaw's Prisoners' Rights Organization of Students. More...

Slideshow: Prof. Jim Hathaway, along with students and leading experts, convened March 22-24 for the Sixth Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law.

The life of a legal aid lawyer isn't easy, but it can be infinitely rewarding, legal aid attorneys told Michigan Law students during a recent panel discussion. More...

MLaw students, on the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision Gideon v. Wainwright, gathered during a lunchtime talk to hear experts discuss the current state of indigent representation in Michigan and elsewhere. More...

NPR's Michele Norris made a stop at the Law School as part of the Race Card Project, which aims to have an open dialogue with students and others about race. More...

A symposium on "The Future of Class-Action Litigation," convened by the Michigan Journal of Law Reform and co-sponsored by U-M's Law School and Ross School of Business, featured a line-up of nationally prominent experts. More...

Michigan Law is known for hosting renowned presenters at the top of their fields, and for nearly two decades, the International Law Workshop has been a forum for many of these distinguished visitors to talk about pressing issues of global importance. More...

Dark money rises. And no, we're not discussing an upcoming "Batman" sequel. We're talking about the amount of untraceable money being spent each cycle on elections, including appellate judicial elections. More...

The Michigan Journal of Race & Law presented a Feb. 2 symposium that explored the impact of solitary confinement on those who are subjected to it. More...

Faculty needs unlimited freedom to conduct research, scholar says. More...

Environmental and social justice activist Maria Gunnoe—who was awarded the University of Michigan's 22nd Raoul Wallenberg Medal—gave a lunchtime talk. More...

The Federal Circuit Bar Association gathered experts at Michigan Law to discuss patent litigation during a recent conference. More...

Dean Evan Caminker has a conversation with Associate Justice Elena Kagan.

Who better qualified to speak on Abraham Lincoln than the man who's done everything from winning the Pulitzer Prize for his work on Lincoln, to advising Disney on its Hall of Presidents? More...

Michigan Law, said Darrow Scholar Dawud Crooms, '09, lived up to its reputation of being a collegial environment. More...

The movie "42" generates new interest in 1911 MLaw grad Branch Rickey—just as his great-grandson, Alex Jakle, '13, graduates from the Law School. More...

Michigan Law graduate Sarah St. Vincent, '11, has been selected for a coveted traineeship on the International Court of Justice (ICJ). More...

Law school should be a time of exploration and an opportunity to get to know yourselves and your interests, Michigan Law graduate Amy Cocuzza, '09, advised students during a banquet honoring their public interest and pro bono work. More...

John Sloss, '81, film sales agent-turned-lawyer, shares his thoughts on the world of independent films. More...

Roopal Shah—a 1995 MLaw graduate who has a background practicing law for the government and in the private sector, as well as starting a nongovernmental organization in India—has been named assistant dean for international affairs. More...

Angel Pachev, '13, believes that while some things should be left to fate, having "the right competence at the right time" can give fate a helping hand. This philosophy led to his leaving a respected clerkship at the Court of Justice of the European Union to pursue an MLaw LLM.

Shayna Cook, '01, is grateful to have had the opportunity to practice different types of law after graduating, and she credits Michigan, in particular, being a Darrow Scholar, with providing those experiences. More...

William Bock III, '89, and Betsy Andreu, BA '89, spoke at an April Law School event about ethical lessons learned from the Lance Armstrong doping case. More...

MLaw alumni Chitta Mallik, '00, and Arn Tellem, '79, are part of the competitive and growing world of sports agents. More...

Every Friday night Gwendolyn Payton, '96, transitions from topflight class-action litigator to jailhouse yoga instructor. More...

Chris Rizik, '86, chief executive officer of Renaissance Venture Capital Fund, is helping to make Ann Arbor and southeast Michigan the center for the next generation of entrepreneurial ventures. More...

Eric Lefkofsky, '93: From selling carpets to starting Groupon. More... 

A highlights of Tom Simon's lifelong love affair with baseball history almost didn't happen. Simon, a 1990 Mlaw grad who practices in Vermont, was filtering through his mail one day last fall when he came across an envelope from the Baseball Hall of Fame. More...

Hannah Gold, '12: "I don't think I would have been as successful in law school if I hadn't [taken a clinic]." More...

Joseph Morrison, Jr., arrived at Michigan Law with an interest in practicing corporate law, but after discovering that "Ann Arbor and Detroit have a young and vibrant entrepreneurial community"... More...

Brandon Weiner, '11, may not have known what he was getting into when he checked out an art show one day at North End Studios in Detroit. More...

As a child growing up in New Jersey, Bruce Tuchman, '89, had "two abiding interests" for when he entered into adulthood: He longed to travel the world, and he dreamed of working in entertainment. More...

Bob Stefanski: How the 1989 Michigan Law graduate went from corporate attorney to entrepreneurial advisor. More...

William McClain's career has been marked by success despite the odds, from his role as the first black city solicitor of a major U.S. city to becoming the first black common pleas court judge in Cincinnati. Now 100, McClain, '37, reflects on lessons learned. More...

Darrow Scholar Kim Forde-Mazrui, '93, was a student-attorney with the Family Law Project and a notes editor with the Michigan Law Review, which "opened his eyes" to the possibility of a career in academia. More...

Colleen Manwell, '12, had no interest in becoming a lawyer, a fact she referenced in her Michigan Law application. More...

Prof. J.J. White teaches his final class in December: article and slideshow.

Back when Shuping Qi, '12, was a scientist, she had to work hard to remember what life was like outside the lab. Qi, who earned a PhD in pharmacology, found herself wondering whether it might be better for her to see what the wider world might hold. More...

An interest in energy law drives new course offerings and a student group at MLaw. More...

Michigan Law clinics help fill the justice gap and provide valuable lawyering experience to students. More...

Messages of inclusion, passion, and determination infuse the Senior Day address delivered by MLaw alumnus Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, on May 12. More...

MLaw students and alumni find camaraderie on the (hockey) bench. More...

Slideshow: Summer Starters 2013.

Born into different cultures and raised on opposite sides of the world, 2Ls Thomas Kadri and Surya Kundu were living far from parallel lives when their paths crossed one summer's day in a courtyard at Michigan Law. More...

Student attorneys in MLaw's Entrepreneurship Clinic provide much-needed legal services to U-M student startup Emblu. More...

For the first time, all of the editors-in-chief of Michigan Law's journals are women. It's noteworthy, but not unexpected, several EICs said. More...

Slideshow: The Law School Student Senate hosted the spring semester faculty wine and cheese reception, which offers the chance for students and faculty to interact in a casual setting away from the classroom.

Slideshow: 1L Emerson Girardeau III is the recipient of the 35th annual Alden J. "Butch" Carpenter Memorial Fund Scholarship, which is awarded each year to first-year Michigan Law students who exemplify its namesake's ideals.

1L students launch a new speaker series called TALK that seeks to build community and compassion among peers. More... 

Slideshow: MLaw hosts the finals of the 2013 Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition.

3L Elana Beale is one of only 32 law students selected nationwide to serve as an American Constitution Society's Next Generation Leader. More...

Slideshow: Dores McCree's legacy of helping minority students adjust to life at Michigan Law was recently carried out by the Black Law Students Alliance. The group hosted local minority high school students to help them learn about careers in the law. More...

Slideshow: The South Asian Law Students Association hosted its own Holi celebration on March 30. Holi, known as the Hindu festival of colors, involves coating participants with colorful powder in a gesture of good will and camaraderie. 

Michigan Law's student organization Future Advocates in Training takes a high school mock trial team under its wing. More...

When Michigan Law 2L Kelly O'Donnell set off for Belize this spring, she wasn't in pursuit of the sort of color one might associate with a Caribbean destination. More...

Michigan Law's Headnotes traverse the Law School on Valentine's Day, springing tuneful surprises on unsuspecting students, professors, and staff: video.

Annual events Mr. Wolverine, Valograms, and Midway Madness are a unique part of the student experience: slideshow.

SFF Auction: Dancing, bidding, and singing off-key, for a good cause. More...

Michigan Law 3L Liz Gary has been meeting with the ideal people to carry on, after she graduates, her tireless effort to encourage Law School composting. Ninjas. More...

Slideshow: The Michigan Law community hosts its annual culture show, a rousing celebration of music and dancing.

Christine Gregory, '96, knows how important the Michigan Access Program (MAP) can be for students, because when she was a student, the program was a fundamental part of her success. More...

Twenty-two teams competed in the Law Students for Reproductive Justice's second annual Sex Ed Trivia Night on Oct. 18. All of them were required to choose a team name; most of them cannot be reprinted here. More...

Slideshow: Summer Starters 2013.

100 Things: What makes Michigan Law so special? There are at least 100 reasons. We've taken the liberty of highlighting them for you, so sit back and enjoy. More...

Slideshow and Video: Senior Day May 2013.

Slideshow: Michigan Law hosts a senior celebration—class photo included—for graduating JDs, LLMs, and SJDs.

Slideshow: The Law School Student Senate hosted the spring semester faculty wine and cheese reception, which offers the chance for students and faculty to interact in a casual setting away from the classroom.

Slideshow: 1L Emerson Girardeau III is the recipient of the 35th annual Alden J. "Butch" Carpenter Memorial Fund Scholarship, which is awarded each year to first-year Michigan Law students who exemplify its namesake's ideals.

Slideshow: Dores McCree's legacy of helping minority students adjust to life at Michigan Law was recently carried out by the Black Law Students Alliance. The group hosted local minority high school students to help them learn about careers in the law. More...

Admitted students get a taste of life at Michigan Law during Preview Weekend: slideshow.

Slideshow: The South Asian Law Students Association hosted its own Holi celebration on March 30. Holi, known as the Hindu festival of colors, involves coating participants with colorful powder in a gesture of good will and camaraderie. 

Michigan Law's Headnotes traverse the Law School on Valentine's Day, springing tuneful surprises on unsuspecting students, professors, and staff: video.

Annual events Mr. Wolverine, Valograms, and Midway Madness are a unique part of the student experience: slideshow.

Michigan Law unveils the first of its kind Debt Wizard—a calculator that provides a simple method for students to explore different ways to service their prospective law school debt. More...

Slideshow: The Law School community enjoyed a beautiful Saturday afternoon carving and decorating pumpkins and playing football during the Fall Festival.

Slideshow: The Michigan Law community hosts its annual culture show, a rousing celebration of music and dancing.

Collegiality finds a home at Aikens Commons: video.

South Hall Dedication, Sept. 7, 2012: slideshow.

Dean Evan Caminker has a conversation with Associate Justice Elena Kagan.

Slideshow: Michigan Law's Classical Music Society serves up works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Puccini during the popular Bach's Lunch.

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University News Service
jwadley@umich.edu
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