Spotlight Stories

Communication at every level is crucial to correcting the wrongs in the health care field, argues Adam Searing '94, project director for the North Carolina Health Access Coalition.

Third-year law student B. Tessa Benjamin says her Haitian-American background gives her a personal connection to the diverse communities she hopes one day to serve with a civil rights law practice.

John “Graham” Corriher says the scholarship that supports his studies at UNC School of Law not only takes away some of the financial burden of law school, but also provides him with a network of fellow scholarship recipients.

Mary Pat Kenyon 2L spent the first part of her summer working on behalf of consumers caught in a mortgage modification scam.

Health care reform includes unprecedented funding and new oversight for comparative effectiveness research (CER), a new strategy that could change the way medicine is practiced, says Richard S. Saver, UNC professor of law.

Lace Wayman researched domestic legal issues in family law, contract law, criminal law, estate planning, immigration, property, taxes and military law as an extern.

Constance L. “Connie” Rice is considered to be one of America’s leading civil rights attorneys. She is co-founder and member of the board of directors of the national civil rights organization Advancement Project.

Students are gaining practical experience and advising a locally based international nonprofit that touches the lives of young people living in the slum neighborhood of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya.