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JAMES E. ROGERS COLLEGE OF LAW |
JANUARY 29, 2025 | | |
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Greetings,
For many students, summer positions with public interest organizations provide a point of entry into the world of public interest law. Many such positions are unpaid, leaving students with difficult financial choices.
This Giving Day, February 13 through 14, we encourage members of the LawCat community to support funds including the Toni M. Massaro Public Interest Student Fellowship Endowment, which funds students in unpaid summer public interest positions. These experiences not only give students the chance to develop legal skills, but also open doors to address access-to-justice gaps through careers in public interest law.
A sincere thank you to all who support our students on Giving Day and throughout the year.
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Support Student Fellowships This Giving Day | |
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This Valentine’s Day, University of Arizona Law is asking the LawCat community to show your Wildcat love by contributing during Giving Day, a 24-hour fundraising effort from noon on Thursday, February 13 to noon on Friday, February 14 in support of students and the university.
Your generosity ensures that University of Arizona Law is able to train the next generation of leaders and lawyers and allows us to provide a modern, nimble legal education of the highest quality. A legal education is a life-changing experience, and with your support, we can give our students the resources they need to transform their passions and skills into fulfilling careers.
This week we feature one of the three programs supported through Giving Day 2025: the Toni M. Massaro Public Interest Student Fellowship Endowment. See our Giving Day page to learn more about this and other programs supported through the generosity of Giving Day donors.
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Toni M. Massaro Public Interest Student Fellowship Endowment
Provide forever funds in honor of Dean Emerita Toni Massaro to support students who accept unpaid summer positions with public interest organizations through fellowships.
The Justice Advocates Coalition (JAC), a student-run organization, complements these efforts by awarding stipends to students undertaking impactful summer roles with nonprofit law organizations.
Students launched the Justice Advocates Coalition in 2017 with the dual goals of empowering marginalized communities and supporting University of Arizona Law students pursuing careers in public interest law. The Massaro Public Interest Student Fellowship Endowment was created in 2023 to help ensure stable and consistent funding to these students in unpaid summer public interest fellowships.
“It matters to me that that all the work these students have done does not disappear in the desert heat,” said Toni at the time the program was endowed. “There will always be a need, and if anything, I see more students now really wanting to make a dent in the world’s problems through law. These students deserve to have this endure.”
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Full Slate of Conversations with Bob Mundheim Set for Spring | |
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The annual speaker series from Professor of Corporate Law and Finance Robert Mundheim, Conversations with Bob Mundheim, returns this semester.
Bob moderates informal conversations with national leaders in business and law, relating their experiences in and perspectives about corporate governance, markets, ethics and career development. The series is free and open to the public and will be of particular interest to law and business students. The series kicked off on Monday with NYU Law Professor Edward Rock, whose main areas of teaching and research are corporate law and corporate governance.
All sessions take place noon-1:15 p.m. at Arizona Law, space is limited, registration is required. Please RSVP to Mary Steed at marywsteed@arizona.edu to reserve your spot.
Upcoming Mundheim Speaker Series conversations include:
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February 17
Byron Boston, CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Dynex Capital
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February 24
Bob Hoyt, Group Chief Legal Officer of HSBC Holdings PLC
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March 3
Simon Lorne, Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer at Millennium Management, LLC
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March 17
Greg Varallo, Managing Partner of the Delaware office of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP
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March 31
John J. Cannon III, a Senior Member of the Compensation, Governance and ERISA Group and Co-Chair of Shearman & Sterling’s Corporate Governance Advisory Group
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April 7
Eric F. Grossman, Morgan Stanley’s Chief Legal Officer and Chief Administrative Officer and a member of the firm’s operating and management committees
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April 14
Michael J. Sharp, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., parent company of Jefferies Group LLC
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Special On-Campus Showing of “What the Constitution Means to Me” | |
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On Tuesday, February 4, Arizona Law will host a free, one-night-only performance of the award-winning play, “What the Constitution Means to Me,” by Tucson’s Invisible Theatre, starring Managing Artistic Director Betsy Kruse Craig.
Playwright Heidi Schreck’s play depicts her own teenage self as she earns college tuition by winning constitutional debate challenges throughout the U.S. The show has been described as a “boundary-breaking play [that] breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans.”
When: Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 5 p.m. (run-time 90 minutes followed by post-show Q&A), first-come, first-served as space permits
Where: Room 164
The Immigration Law Stdents Association (ILSA) and Native and Indigenous Law Students Association (NILSA) will sell snacks in the lobby from 4 to 5:00 p.m.
Please email Associate Clinical Professor of Law Sylvia Lett (slett@arizona.edu) with any questions.
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Save the Date: Neumann Lecture with Josh Koskoff March 27
On Thursday, March 27, Josh Koskoff will present the 2025 Peter Chase Neumann Lecture on Civil Justice. A third-generation attorney at the Connecticut law firm Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, Josh has represented clients in high-profile cases like the $73 million settlement on behalf of families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Stay tuned for further details.
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Do You Have News?
Your success is the college’s success and we want to celebrate with you! If you have landed a new job, received an award or recognition, stepped into a leadership role or have good news in general, let us know.
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As a law student, I benefitted from a fellowship that funded student jobs in public interest positions. These fellowships give students valuable experience while helping to address real legal challenges. The Arizona Law community has always stepped up to support future LawCats, and I have no doubt this year will be the same.
Thank you to everyone who gives on Giving Day and beyond—your support makes a real difference!
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