11 CSU College of Law Alumni Named to The Best Lawyers in America® or Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for 2025

Tucker Ellis LLP is proud to announce that nine of the firm’s attorneys who are alumni of Cleveland State University College of Law have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for 2025:

Monday Morning Message 9.3.24 Four Core Values That Whisper in Our Ears

This is the first Monday Morning Message of the Fall 2024 Semester. Monday was Labor Day, so the message is being posted today.

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.” - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

We strive to be a law school that welcomes and encourages diverse viewpoints but where we share common values. Research shows that when we get better at who we are, we get better at what we do (Better Humans, Better Performance, Peter Rea, James Stoller, Alan Kolp). 

So when we welcomed our 195 first year students (the largest 1L class in 15 years, a 99% increase in 1L enrollment since 2016), we administered a pledge about values to all our 1L students.

Constitution Day Program

Pardon, Clemency & Reentry Clinic Receives Gift from National Urban League

Criminal Justice Faculty Interviewed for Cleveland Conversations

Professor Robert Triozzi, Co-director of the Criminal Justice Center, Khalida Sims Jackson, Director of the Pardon, Clemency + Reentry Clinic,  and Laura Greig, Director of the Terry Gilbert Wrongful Conviction Clinic were interviewed for Cleveland Conversations, a production of the CSU School of Communication in the Levin College of Public Affairs and Education. See the below links to the interviews.

IP+ Conference 2024

Save the Date for the annual IP+ Conference at CSU|LAW, brought to you by IPTA!

Graduate Profile: 2023-24 Student Bar Association President Jalela Jallaq

Cleveland State University College of Law 2023-24 Student Bar Association (SBA) President Jalela Jallaq came to law school to become an agent for positive change.  As she addressed her fellow graduates during commencement, she recognized she and her fellow classmates are well on their way to having the ability to drive the changes they want to see. 

Graduate Profile: 2024 Dean’s Learn Law Live Justice Award Recipient Anastasia Sakairoun

2024 Cleveland State University College of Law graduate Anastasia Sakairoun believes she and her fellow classmates have a duty to serve their communities, and that their law degrees have trained them to be strategic thinkers who people can turn for guidance.  For her leadership and the commitment and passion she demonstrated as a law student, Anastasia was selected as the 2024 recipient of CSU|LAW’s Dean’s Learn Law Live Justice Award. 

Monday Morning Message 6.10.24 Before Your Email Inbox Gets a Summer Break!

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.” - Maya Angelou

We are giving your email inbox a summer break! The Monday Morning Message will resume the week of August 19, 2024, the first full week of fall semester classes. 

In the meantime, I have just one request.

Graduate Profile: 2024 Class Co-Valedictorian Ernest Olesky

2024 Cleveland State University College of Law Co-Valedictorian Ernest Olesky is familiar with receiving such a distinction.  When he graduated as an undergraduate from CSU in 2019 with a degree in Psychology, Criminology and Sociology, Ernest was named valedictorian of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the College of Science and Health Professions, and the University.  He does not take these prestigious distinctions lightly.

“It’s a tremendous honor to now cap off this latest chapter of my academic career with this distinction,” said Olesky.