Cheryl Dalby ’95 has accepted the position of chief executive officer of the Minnesota State Bar Association, Hennepin County Bar Association, and Ramsey County Bar Associations.

The combined CEO position was created after the boards of directors of the three associations decided in June 2018 to adopt a shared staff model to better coordinate efforts, increase efficiencies, and improve member value. Dalby, who has served as executive director of the Ramsey County Bar Association for the last 18 years, was selected after a nationwide search.

The Law School’s National Moot Court Competition teams continued the program’s success in achieving outstanding results at the Region 14 tournament, with one team making it to the semi-finals and the other emerging as regional champions.

The Region 14 competition was hosted by the University of South Dakota Law School in Sioux Falls on Nov. 16-17. The Respondent team (3Ls Allison Chadwick, Kelly Nizzari, and Brendan Johnson) completed a clean sweep of the awards: Region 14 champions; best Respondent brief; best overall brief; and best oral advocate in the finals (Nizzari).

The Law School’s magazine, known for the last 13 years as Perspectives, has undergone a name change. Starting with the current issue (Fall 2018), the magazine’s new name is Minnesota Law.

“We renamed the magazine Minnesota Law to more closely align it to the Law School’s branding and better connect it to the Law School community,” said Dean Garry W. Jenkins in a letter to readers in the inaugural edition of Minnesota Law.

At a special program celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Human Rights Center, Professor Michael Posner, a former top U.S. State Department official and well-known human rights advocate and scholar, marked the occasion with a celebration of the progress made on human rights in the last three decades and exhortation to continue to build on that work.

The spring 2018 edition of Perspectives, the Law School's alumni magazine, recently was recognized with two design excellence awards by the Minnesota Media & Publishing Association (MMPA).

Stanley Efron ’53, a founding member of the venerable Minneapolis law firm Henson Efron and a dedicated benefactor of the Law School, passed away Sept. 27 at the age of 86.

Efron established his first firm, the three-person Efron & Kittler, in 1958, shortly after completing his military service. That firm merged with another in 1976 to form Henson Efron; by 2002, the once-modest enterprise had grown to occupy two floors of the U.S. Bank Plaza Building in Minneapolis.

Justice Alan C. Page ’78 received the nation's highest civillian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

This prestigious award may be given by the president to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.