Larry Kramer had a problem. In his first year as dean, he’d gained consensus on remaking much of Stanford Law School and its curriculum. But Kramer believed that several cornerstones of the transformation—including new full-time clinics and better support for joint degree students—required switching the law school’s calendar from semesters [...]
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Veterans and the Criminal Justice System
Lately, there’s a lot of news about veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq to uncertain prospects for a future outside of the military. But some are finding their way back into civilian life via education. The number of veterans coming to Stanford Law has surged during the past few years. And their pres ence on campus is being felt both in and outside of the classroom.
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Law Students Awarded in Stanford Business Competition
Daniel Lewis, JD ’12, and Nik Reed, JD ’12 (BA ’02), came up with an idea for a legal search technology and have been juggling their busy course load with developing it. Their product presents a new view of legal search, says Reed, by using innovative visualization technology to provide search results that reveal the most important legal cases, connections between cases, and the evolution of legal principles over time. the two submitted their idea to the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students Group (BASES) Challenge. One of 150 original business plans under consideration, it won second place at the May finals where they were awarded $10,000. The very happy Lewis and Reed are pictured here holding the check, with BASES team members behind them.
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JDs As VCs
Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, the Doobie Brothers, and Crosby, Stills & Nash headlined at Shoreline Amphitheater on a gorgeous summer day last August—a benefit for Musicians United for Safe Energy and humanitarian aid for Japan. It was a redux of a 1979 Madison Square Garden concert where the same musicians [...]
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White-Collar Crime
Real estate brokers who put together fraudulent income packages without the borrower knowing. Individuals who served as straw borrowers, essentially renting their credit out to those with insufficient credit. An alleged Ponzi scheme. A title company that helped write multiple loans on a single piece of property.
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GCs in D.C.: Counsel to Government
Washington — A poster-size photograph of one of the first meetings that Michael C. Camuñez attended with President Obama hangs prominently on the wall of his office in the White House complex.
As a special assistant to the president, Camuñez ’98 was part of a small group in charge of finding people to help run the executive branch in the new administration. The meeting with Obama involved “a candidate for a very senior government position,” Camuñez recalls.