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Case Western Reserve University Environmental Law Clinic wins court victory for Ohio clean air protections
A Franklin County court has struck down Ohio budget provisions that weakened clean air protections and restricted the use of community-collected air quality data.Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Environmental Law Clinic helped make it happen. Miranda Leppla, the clinic’s director,…
Ann Funai
How a CWRU computer science grad landed in venture capital
Ann Funai (CWR ’97) built a career at IBM and Under Armour by taking on work that excited her—even when it scared her
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Wherever the challenge lies
For TikTok U.S. executive Nicole Nason, a student-centered legal education became the foundation for a career of saying yes to the next hard problem
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How Fred D. Gray’s time at Case Western Reserve helped shape a civil rights legend
“My objective in coming here was to finish law school in three years, return to Alabama, become a lawyer and destroy everything segregated I could find.”If you think this sounds like the opening line in the next novel by Percival Everett or Colson Whitehead, it would be a good guess, but incorrect…
Ethan Pickering
From a family farm to an AI startup: A CWRU alumni entrepreneur’s path
A conversation with Ethan Pickering (CWR ’15; GRS ’16, mechanical and aerospace engineering), co-founder of Prophet AI
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Law at the heart of business: Inside a 2L’s Nestlé internship
With dedicated mentorship and hands-on transactional experience, one law student found her legal path at one of the world's largest companies.
Noah Perrin standing in front of a sculpture of a gavel at the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center in Columbus
A dual perspective: a 3L’s path through health law and social work
By pairing a JD with a MSW, Noah Perrin blends hands-on social work, health law scholarship and state agency experience to advocate for underserved populations.
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A career grounded in community
Spurred on by his MNO at Case Western Reserve, Greg Peckham has spent the past three decades quietly transforming Northeast Ohio
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Making an impact in real time
Meet a 2L earning her online JD while working full-time in voting rights advocacy—where she’s also doing a legal externship.
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A path to in-house legal practice
How an extended internship at Sherwin-Williams headquarters is giving one CWRU student an inside look at corporate operations.