Professor Jonathan T. Weinberg is Wayne Law’s inaugural associate dean for research and faculty development. Weinberg’s job as associate dean is to support and promote faculty scholarship and academic achievement.

Wayne Law and Brooks Kushman have joined forces to strengthen the impact of Wayne Law’s Patent Procurement Clinic. The new partnership helps address gaps in access to quality legal services for lower-income innovators and small business owners in Metro Detroit.

Career Services presented its annual Law Firm Crawls on July 18 and 26 for members of Moot Court, The Journal of Law in Society, Wayne Law Review and the Journal of Business Law. The events allow students to network with practicing attorneys, tour area law firms and ask questions. Participating law firms were Bodman, Butzel Long, Dickinson Wright, Honigman, Jones Day, Varnum and Warner Norcross and Judd. Jaffe Raitt Heuer and Weiss hosted a networking reception Aug. 6 for members of the Wayne Law Review and Moot Court program at the Detroit Athletic Club.

• Sept. 21 - Alumni Happy Hour in Detroit

• Oct. 4 - Paul A. Rosen Constitutional Speaker Series featuring Lee Gelernt

• Oct. 5 - Seventh Keith Center at Wayne Law Biennial Lecture featuring Spencer Overton

• Oct. 19 - Wayne Law Reunion

Immigration attorney Farah Al-khersan knows on many levels what her clients go through in their quest to live in America. The 2015 graduate of Wayne Law is the daughter of Iraqi parents who brought her with her siblings to the United States in the 1990s.

Laura Barrera ’16, is on the front lines of America’s immigration crisis every day. Barrera works for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law Immigration Clinic and represents unaccompanied refugee children in deportation proceedings before the Immigration Court and before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency of the Department of Homeland Security.

Ruby Robinson ’11, is co-managing attorney for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, an organization that spearheads the effort to stand up for immigrant rights in the state. “It is easy to be passionate about this work when I have such wonderful clients, coworkers and colleagues around the state.”

Shortly after Stephen Ott ’79, graduated from Wayne Law, he read that the Detroit Fire Department was reactivating its auxiliary force. He signed up and reported for training. Ott is now chief of the Northville City Fire Department, which serves the 15,000 residents of the cities of Northville and Plymouth.

Erin Mette ’18, is the recipient of a prestigious Equal Justice Works Fellowship. During her two-year fellowship, Mette is working for the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center to provide legal counseling and representation to families affected by home-based environmental health hazards in Detroit and Flint. She also will advocate for policy that advances environmental justice.

Catherine Ferguson and Charles Roarty, Wayne Law class of 2018, were nominated by faculty and selected and honored at the recent State Bar of Michigan Taxation Section annual meeting for their “Excellence in the Study of Taxation.” Both Ferguson and Roarty will be pursuing their LL.M. in the fall.

Rising third-year student Mallory Fiordellisi was awarded the Philip F. Greco Memorial Scholarship from the Macomb County Bar Foundation.

Rising third-year student Brant Losinski was awarded the Judge Philip J. Glennie Law Student Scholarship from the Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan.

Eight Wayne Law students gained experience and served a variety of agencies this summer, thanks to the support of the 2018 Public Interest Law Fellowships. The 2018 fellowship winners include rising second-year students Connor Caplis, Dezha Dial, Craigen Oster and Arthur Wagner, and rising third-year students Cait De Mott Grady, Rachel Lerman, Aaron Rowland and Victoria Stadick. 

Four students spent the summer working on Capitol Hill as legal interns thanks to internships sponsored by the Levin Center at Wayne Law. 2018 interns were Marie Bonnici, Marisa Hamel, Shelbie Rose and Marilyn Yousif. 

Professor Peter J. Henning was quoted in a report for The New York Times Questions Loom Over Tesla Deal After CEO Reveals Saudi Link

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