News

Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert (JALBCA), an organization dedicated to mobilizing the legal community of the New York City metropolitan area in the fight against breast cancer, has named Stephanie D’Agostino ’13 as its Susan Solomon Intern for 2012/2013.

The inaugural Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Diversity Fellowship has been awarded to Cassye Cole ’14.

Sary Udashkin ’13, a Sparer Public Interest Law Fellow, founded the Public Interest Collective (PIC) with students from twelve New York area law school schools last year.

Brooklyn Law School is pleased to announce that seven first-year students were selected upon admission for the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program.

On August 17, Brooklyn Law School students participated in the Inaugural Orientation Community Service Day, co-sponsored by Brooklyn Law Students for the Public Interest (BLSPI) and the Environmental Law Society.

Douglas Buckley ’13 was the third place winner of this year’s highly competitive American Bankruptcy Institute’s Law Student Writing Competition.

Six rising second-year students have been named recipients of the Law School’s Health Law and Policy Fellowship.

Brooklyn Law Students for the Public Interest (BLSPI) awarded its 2012 Michael Madow Bar Grant to 15 graduates who demonstrated a commitment to public interest legal work to defray bar exam costs.

Benjamin Falber ’12 won two national student writing competition awards for his research in environmental law.

Brooklyn Law School student Zachary Kuperman ’12 has been selected as a recipient of a Burton Award for Legal Achievement for his note, “Cutting the Baby in Half: An Economic Critique of Indivisible Resources Partition,” which was published in the Fall 2011 issue of the Brooklyn Law Review.

Olga Vlasova '13 was a featured guest columnist in The Jurist, arguing for the prohibition of the death penalty for severely mentally ill convicts.

Rebeccah Golubock Watson ’12 was awarded the prestigious Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship from Georgetown University Law Center, the second in a row that a Brooklyn Law School student received this fellowship.

Kathryn Hensley ’13 and Kira Ewig ’13 have been awarded the Bergstrom Child Welfare Law Summer Fellowship, which encourages outstanding law students nationwide to pursue careers in child advocacy.

Four BLS students will be the first interns for the New York State Bar Association's real property law section next fall.

Brooklyn Law School Students among the First Interns in the State Bar Real Property Law Section’s New Internship Program.

Miles Schreiner ’12 Wins American College of Legal Medicine Student Writing Competition.

Sayeda Abbas ’12, Dina Kleyman ’12, and Shannon Karam ’12 began working in the Safe Harbor Clinic in Spring 2011.

Brooklyn Law Students for the Public Interest (BLSPI) recently announced the recipients of the 2012 BLSPI Fellowship.

Kalish Bell ’12 has been awarded a 2011-2012 Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo, Cohn & Terrana, LLP Diversity Fellowship.

Sylvester Yavana ’14 won “Best Oral Advocate” at the recent Northeast Region Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition, which was held during the Northeast Black Law Students Association (NEBLSA) 2012 Convention in West Harrison, New York.

David Shapiro ’12 has been awarded the prestigious post-graduate Gault Fellowship. For the next two years, Shapiro will work at the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC) in Washington, D.C., performing extensive legal work for NJDC and assisting with the provision of training and technical assistance to the juvenile defense community.

Michael A. Sabino ’12 was named the December winner of the Winter 2011 Student Legal Writing Contest sponsored by the National Law Review (NLR) for his article, “Football and Antitrust Law: American Needle v. NFL and Its Meaning for Combinations in Restraint of Trade and the Rule of Reason in the 21st Century.”

In the midst of finals on December 15, 2011, corporate and real estate clinic students Nandini Sur ’12 and Stephanie La Carrubba ’12 conducted a loan closing for a Harlem building.