Category: News & Media

Thomas Jefferson School of Law is proud to host the National Sports Law Negotiation Competition for the third year in a row on September 20-22, 2013. The first two NSLNC competitions at TJSL were extremely successful and the 2013 edition is shaping up  to be very successful as well. “NSLNC 2013, the Third Annual for […]

Four TJSL Professors and nine alumni have been selected as finalists for the 2013 Top Attorneys Recognition by the San Diego Daily Transcript. All finalists are described as “San Diego’s legal cream of the crop” by the Transcript’s editors. Professor Julie Greenberg, Professor Marybeth Herald, Professor Lilys McCoy and Professor Steve Semeraro were named in […]

The pages of the July/August issue of San Diego Lawyer -The Journal of the San Diego County Bar Association (SDCBA), are teeming with articles authored or co-authored by members of the TJSL community, including two informative feature articles about innovative TJSL programs. Alumnus Jeremy Evans ’11, who is on the editorial staff of the Journal, […]

Tim Dennison ‘05 has accepted a new position as an Intellectual Property Counsel for Philips International B.V. based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, about ninety minutes south of Amsterdam. Dennison was most recently in private practice in the area of intellectual property and corporate transactions in San Diego, in addition to being the Supervising Attorney at […]

TJSL Associate Dean William Byrnes has been appointed by LexisNexis as the primary author of its Practical Guide to U.S. Transfer Pricing, his sixth Lexis title.  “I am honored that LexisNexis chose me to take over this 28 chapter publication established by the renowned Robert Cole,” said Dean Byrnes.  “But I was saddened by the […]

After hundreds of hours of research and writing, Professor Ken Vandevelde recently published A History of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, a new book detailing the years since the school’s founding as the San Diego campus of Western State University College of Law in 1969 through the end of his 11-year tenure as dean.  […]

This fall TJSL Professor Meera Deo will be a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley Law’s Center for the Study of Law & Society (CSLS). “The position is an opportunity for me to collaborate and exchange with other scholars working on interdisciplinary and empirical research that focuses on law and society,” says Professor Deo.  “It is also […]

By Jeremy Evans ‘11 On Wednesday, July 17, 2013, the New Lawyers Division (NLD) of the San Diego County Bar Association put on a Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) program that was entitled “Beer & Wine Law: Transition from Hobby to Commercial.” The program was organized by CLE Co-Chairs and Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL) […]

The State Bar of California has selected Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s CLIMB Program (Crawford Legal Institute Mentorship Bond Program) to receive the 2013 State Bar of California Education Pipeline Award.  The program is a collaboration between Crawford High School and TJSL to encourage and mentor at-risk high school students in law and higher education […]

Following on his lunchtime CLE presentation for the San Diego County Bar Association with Procopio tax partner Patrick Martin, Associate Dean William Byrnes was invited to Zurich, Switzerland to deliver a week-long series of workshops on the implications of FATCA for large financial institutions on the LATAM market.  The series of lectures and workshops began […]

The second live webinar version of an MCLE was hosted by the TJSL Alumni Association on Tuesday, July 16.  Lacy J lodes ‘08 introduced newly appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Linda Keller as the presenter for “The Challenges of International Justice” MCLE event. Dean Keller presented on the complexities of international criminal law and […]

TJSL alumnus and editor of the San Diego Lawyer Magazine Martin Kruming ’77 and Adjunct Professor and Director of the Graduate Programs at Thomas Jefferson School of Law Jason Fiske ’08 attended a prestigious “invitation-only” conference in Azerbaijan recently.  The conference was the 5th Annual International Conference on E-Government, Innovations in Customs in Gabula, Azerbaijan.  […]