Business, Law + Politics

On Dec. 8, 2022, 135 companies from Northeast Ohio were recognized by the Weatherhead School of Management at the Weatherhead 100 event for their leadership, growth and success in the region. The event took place at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown with over 650 guests representing about 80 of the…

A third year law student at Case Western Reserve University, Matthew McDonald has been performing live music in the Cleveland area for over a decade. Blending 60’s pop music with art-rock, industrial, electronic and new age sounds, his current band Regas-McDonald has released two albums and is…

Major: Full-Time MBA, Finance ConcentrationYear: Second year Connor Reider, a second-year student in the Full-Time MBA program at Weatherhead School of Management  who is concentrating in finance, strives to make an impact—no matter how big or small.  Learn about Reider’s passion for business and…

Veale Institute executive director Michael Goldberg was consulted for a piece on economic uncertainty and food insecurity in Northeast Ohio with Channel 5 News. “There’s optimism that inflation has perhaps peaked and is on its way down, but we don’t know that for sure,” said Michael Goldberg, an…

From a memorable midterm election to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and medical breakthroughs to the war in Ukraine, the expertise and insight of Case Western Reserve University’s faculty and staff were at the forefront of the stories making headlines nationally and…

LLEAP 3, the third component of the law school’s legal writing program, transforms the classroom into a law firm where students research, write, advise clients, negotiate, and advocate exactly as a junior business or litigation attorney would. Students in LLEAP 3-Litigation work on a hypothetical…

Our Appellate Litigation Clinic capped off the fall semester with a major victory in the Supreme Court of Ohio: in a 4–3 decision, the state’s highest court reversed lower-court decisions that deprived the client of the right to withdraw a guilty plea upon discovering evidence that the State had…

Congratulations to our twelve Community Development Clinic interns, who just finished a semester completing dozens of legal projects for Cleveland area community organizations and social enterprises. They renegotiated leases, researched and answered tax exemption questions, guided boards of…

Third-year law student Magda Phillips was recently selected by the Ohio Access to Justice Foundation to serve at the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland in the fall of 2023 as a Justice for All Fellow. Her project addresses the racial wealth gap by helping Black residents of Northeast Ohio achieve…

On Feb. 14, 2022, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf traveled to The Hague to present an Amicus (friend of the court) argument on the proper application of the insanity defense before the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Today (Dec. 15,…