Two alumni of the Wake Forest University School of Law are the recipients of awards from the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina. Robert “Hoppy” Elliott (’77) has been named the 2012 winner of the Frank Porter Award and Kristin Parks (’95) won the Paul Green Award. An awards ceremony was held on Saturday, [...]
On Tuesday, Veronica Filipowski, the ex-wife of former Winston-Salem Dash team co-owner Andrew “Flip” Filipowski, sat in a room full of Wake Forest law students and listened to arguments in a case about the collapse of her marriage. She had sued Melissa Oliver for damages in Forsyth County Superior Court under the state’s alienation of [...]
For longer than she’s been an attorney, Christy Myatt (’79, ’82) has helped injured skiers travel safely down the mountains of western North Carolina. The skills she uses in her part-time ski patrol job carry over to her full-time position as a bankruptcy attorney at Nexsen Pruet. “Both [jobs] deal with emergency situations, taking care [...]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Broward County‘s first Asian-American judge was formally sworn in on Friday during a judicial robing ceremony at the state courthouse. Circuit Judge Raag Singhal (’89), whose parents emigrated from India to the U.S. in 1960, three years before he was born, is only the third Asian-American judge in the state. Singhal, [...]
