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When Nicholas Kirsch (LAW ‘19) and Stephanie Farah (LAW ‘18) met in an undergraduate SAGES class in 2011, they formed an immediate and lasting connection.  “He was very smart, of course. And handsome and funny,” said Farah. 

On November 30, the Ohio Supreme Court released the results of the most recent Ohio Bar exam. With a 94 percent Bar pass rate (59 out of 63), Case Western Reserve School of Law graduates performed the best out of nine Ohio law schools for first-time takers.  

On Nov. 20-21, two teams of third-year Case Western Reserve law students competed in the regional round of the National Moot Court Competition.

Third-year law student Lauryn Durham was recently published in the autumn edition of the Ohio State Bar Association’s “Intellectual Property Law Section” newsletter.   

Case Western Reserve School of Law is proud to announce four new additions to the Law Alumni Association Board (LAAB), including Mike Gabrail (LAW '14), Anne Lederman Flamm (LAW '95) and David Shall (LAW '83).

For the third year in a row, PreLaw Magazine, a National Jurist publication, awarded Case Western Reserve School of Law an “A” ranking in business law, placing it in elite company with law schools

Ranked by Prelaw Magazine as the ninth-best law school in the nation in public interest law, Case Western Reserve School of Law has a long history of training graduates who have gone on to serve as distinguished judges, prosecutors and other elected officials in Ohio and beyond.

Professor Sharona Hoffman, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, was quoted in an article entitled “Is It OK to Reveal Your Anxiety or Depression to Your Boss?” in the Wall Street Journal on September 13, 2020

In 2013, Felipe Gomez was a promising engineering student at Case Western Reserve University with a big idea – increase fuel efficiency in jet engines through innovative use of plasma in the fuel injection process. 

Aaron Perzanowski, associate director of the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts, teaches copyright, trademark, and property law. His research on the intersection of intellectual and personal property explores the notion of ownership in a digital economy.

On October 24, 2020, Co-Dean Michael Scharf was voted president-elect of the American Branch of the International Law Association. Established in 1873 and headquartered in London, the 4,400-member association is the preeminent international non-governmental organization involved in developing and restating international law.

For as long as he can remember, Ryan McCray was fascinated with technology. As a teenager, he served as the president of his high school’s electronics club and worked at Radio Shack before earning a bachelor’s degree in electronic media, an associate’s degree in computer programming and a master’s in business administration.

For the last decade, the law school's Fusion program has trained graduate students in law, business, engineering and science to work together as interdisciplinary teams to assess, cultivate and monetize the opportunities underlying promising new ventures in a simulated environment.

Professor Richard J. Lazarus of Harvard University discussed his new book, The Rule of Five: Making Climate Change History at the Supreme Court, in a webinar on Oct. 22, 2020. sponsored by the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law.

Considered a rising star of the legal community by the Crain's editorial team, Maya Simek, the director of the Human Trafficking Project at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was recently selected&