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Mayor Filner Diversity Event

Mayor Bob Filner's Diversity Week Appearance

April 10, 2013

Was on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's Bob Filner knows what it’s like to fight the good fight and change American history in the process.

That’s...

Mock Trial Team

TJSL Mock Trial Team Makes the Final Four in National Trial Competition

April 8, 2013

TJSL’s Mock Trial team made the “final four” of the National Trial Competition by reaching the semi-finals of the event, held in San Antonio, Texas the weekend of April 5.

It was a...

Law Review Unveils New Website

Law Review Unveils New Website

April 8, 2013

The Thomas Jefferson Law Review (TJLR) has launched a new website, bigger and better than ever before, and geared to a national audience. The...

Stacey Zapanta, 3L

TJSL Student Earns Scholarship from the California Bar Foundation

April 8, 2013

By Maysa Eissa, Associate Director of Career Services

For the second year in a row, a TJSL student has been awarded the prestigious California Bar Foundation’s...

Prof. Greenberg at Michigan

Professor Julie Greenberg Lectures on Intersexuality Issues at Michigan Law School

April 5, 2013

The University of Michigan Law School invited Professor Julie Greenberg to deliver a lecture on the health care and legal issues affecting people with an intersex condition.  During the March 18th...

Alums in D.C.

Two TJSL ALums in D.C. Named to Federal Government Positions

April 5, 2013

Two TJSL alumni in the Washington, D.C. area, Hallie and Alexander Balkin, have just started new positions with the federal government.

Alexander Balkin ‘11 has been hired by the Nuclear...

Professor Lea Fields-Bernard, Robert Sagerian, Jay B Campbell, Michael Fabinski,

TJSL Mock Trial Team Heads to Texas for National Trial Competition

April 4, 2013

The Thomas Jefferson School of Law Mock Trial Team is competing in San Antonio this weekend (April 5-7) at the National Trial Competition, sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers and...

New Dean Selected

TJSL Welcomes Dean Thomas Guernsey

April 2, 2013

Thomas Jefferson School of Law welcomes Thomas Guernsey as Dean and President on Monday, July 1.

It is a new era for TJSL - full of promise and excitement!

Dean Guernsey has most...

SDCBA Awards

Dean Hasl, Two TJSL Alumni Win Bar Association Community Service Awards

April 1, 2013

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Dean Rudy Hasl and two TJSL alumni are being honored at the San Diego County Bar Association’s Law Week Luncheon and Celebration and Community Service on April 30....

Dean Rudy Hasl with LEED Gold Plaque

New Additions Brighten TJSL's Walls

March 28, 2013

“I am pleased to announce that two installations have occurred on the first floor,” said Dean Rudy Hasl on March 28 when telling the faculty and staff about the new art and a plaque that now hangs...

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