Monday Morning Message 4.5.21 "You Make Me Feel Valued."
“I cannot thank you enough for your unwavering confidence in my abilities and passion for movement lawyering. This past year I have found myself feeling hopeless so often, but in moments like this I can actively feel the support of the C|M|LAW community behind me and know that as long as I work hard and hold fast to my principles that the possibilities of my future remain without boundaries. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.” - 2L Student
Alumni Profile: Wendy Cohn ’88 and Mark Termini ’84
When Mark Termini ’84 and Wendy Cohn ’88 started their sports agency, Mark Termini Associates Inc in 1986, they could not envision the success that would lie ahead.
Monday Morning Message 3.29.21 You're One Decision Away From a Completely Different Life
“All law schools have distinctive qualities and characteristics. Cleveland-Marshall's are the connected learning processes that go on throughout your law school years and continue beyond those years, in addition to the faculty and staff's commitment to the details of what it takes for student success.” - Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody J. Stewart ‘88
CMLAW Students Among LASC 2021 Summer Associates and Volunteers
The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland recruited top students for its 2021 Summer Associate and Volunteer Program.
As in 2020, students will work remote on important projects focused on Legal Aid's mission. Legal Aid attorneys mentor the summer staff on issues of poverty law. The structured program includes trainings on substantive law, public interest work, and basics of legal practice. Students learn how to interview clients, draft court pleadings, research relevant legal issues and observe hearings and trials. Other students gain experience in community outreach, social work, development and public relations.
Three students from CSU C|M|LAW will participate:
Erykah Gandy
Summer Associate
Family Practice Group
Monday Morning Message 3.22.21 a Single Garment of Destiny
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The language of humanity and empathy needs to drown out the language of dehumanization. In this process of rehumanization, words do, in fact, matter. Words can heal. Words can re-engage people’s morality.” C|M|LAW Professor Reggie Oh
Anti-Asian Racism - We Stand in Solidarity.
A Message from Dean Lee Fisher
This morning I want to express CSU Cleveland-Marshall’s deepest support for the Asian American community. We unequivocally condemn the surge in anti-Asian violence throughout the nation, most recently with the shootings of six Asian women in Atlanta this week. We mourn their senseless murders. I call on all of us to join together as a C|M|LAW community to stand in solidarity with our Asian students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends and stand up against anti-Asian hate and violence.
CSU CMLAW Alumna Fudge ’83 Sworn in as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
CSU C|M|LAW alumna and Hall of Fame member Marcia Fudge ’83 made history March 11 as she was sworn in as the first woman to lead the Department of Housing and Urban development in more than 40 years, the second black woman to lead the department and the
CSU C|M|LAW BLSA Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Team Wins National Championship
CSU Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s Black Law Students Association Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Team topped teams from law schools throughout the country to win the National Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition.
Monday Morning Message 3.15.21 In the Cabinet!
“The housing crisis isn’t isolated by geography. It is the daily reality for tens of millions of our fellow Americans - people in blue states and red states, in cities and small towns. My first priority as Secretary would be to alleviate that crisis and get people the support they need to come back from the edge.” – HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge
Monday Morning Message 3.8.21 National Champions!
“When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become—whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm—her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than an inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, “Yes, someone like me can do this.” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor