The Ziffren Center for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law hosted its third annual One Year Out panel on September 26, bringing recent alumni back into the fold to talk to current students about launching careers in entertainment law.
Nathan Cox’s time at UCLA School of Law included the launch of a technology company, work with leading professors in tax law and honors as part of UCLA Law’s moot court and mock trial programs. In recognition of his efforts, Cox ’19, who is now working in the San Diego office of Cooley, received the 2019 Bruce I. Hochman Award for Excellence in the Study of Tax Law.
Two years ago, UCLA School of Law’s Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law launched the Documentary Film Legal Clinic, a creative enterprise among law students, veteran media attorneys and independent filmmakers.
Three UCLA School of Law students have received Skadden Fellowships to pursue public interest law after they graduate. The two-year fellowships, presented annually since 1988, are among the most prestigious and competitive awards for public interest law students.
Offering broad access to a preeminent legal education and career in the law has been core to UCLA School of Law since the start, and the school has had remarkable success in its efforts to attract, educate and propel to success “first-gen” students — people who are the first in their families to earn a college degree. Today, about one in six of the school’s J.D. students is first-gen, a higher percentage than that reported by any top law school.
Bolstering UCLA School of Law’s instruction in corporate governance, business ethics and related subjects, alumnus William Kahane ’74 and his wife, Elizabeth Kahane, have committed $1million to launch a new corporate governance course and programming at UCLA Law’s Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy.
Advancing workplace-related rights for underrepresented communities in Los Angeles, in 2018-19 the Critical Race Studies program launched a new Race, Work and Economic Justice Clinic in collaboration with the Los Angeles Black Worker Center and San Francisco-based Legal Aid at Work.
UCLA School of Law Professor Noah Zatz and scholars at the UCLA Labor Center have published a groundbreaking report on Los Angeles County’s broken system of court-ordered community service.
The rapidly evolving world of amateur athletics was the focus of the Ziffren Institute's IN-Sports panel "State of Play: College Sports Today," on Nov. 15. A standing-room-only crowd heard from NCAA Chief Legal Officer and Chief Operations Officer Donald Remy and former NCAA Division I athlete Cody McDavis '19. Doug Greenburg, partner at Latham & Watkins, served as moderator for the lively discussion.
UCLA School of Law’s Veterans Legal Clinic and Criminal Justice Program partnered with the Oakland-based community organization Root & Rebound to hold a ticket-clearing clinic at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles campus on Sept. 27, providing pro bono legal services for veterans.