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Janet Moore Wins Junior Scholarship Competition
Janet Moore, Assistant Professor of Law, has won the Junior Scholar Competition, sponsored by the Criminal Justice section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). The award was officially presented at the association's annual meeting in New Orleans, LA the first weekend in January.
On Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, two of the highest-scoring teams in college football, the University of Oregon and Kansas State University, faced off in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. While a major college football bowl game being played in Glendale, Ariz. has minimal local flavor, one of the College of Law's own played a major role in both this game and the Dec. 29 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl game between TCU and Michigan State.
Daya Patibandla '14 had long wanted to attend law school and become an attorney.
"I knew I wanted to be an attorney about 20 pages into my first John Grisham book," said Patibandla, of course referring to the classic novel, "The Firm."
After working for a year following undergrad, Patibandla took the LSAT and began looking into law schools all across the country. She enrolled at the College of Law last fall and is now halfway through with her three-year law school career.
Often times, lawyers come out of law school on a different career path than what they initially intended. Michelle James '13, however, has not really strayed from her initial goals, remaining very corporate-minded throughout her first five semesters at the College of Law. 
Kenneth Hirsh, Director, Law Library and Information Technology and Professor of Practice, has been elected to the executive board of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). His three-year term commences July 2013.
Since 1980, the UC Law Alumni Association has been honoring distinguished UC College of Law alumni. Criteria for nomination are excellence and achievement in the individual’s chosen field of practice or profession. The selected individual(s) will be honored at the Annual Spring Distinguished Alumni Luncheon. (