Law School Workshops Pay Off

12/10/07

Law School Workshops Pay Off
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is encouraging the University of Hawaii at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law's Ahahui o Hawai'i to provide Law School Admission Test workshops for Native Hawaiians once again. The program was started by law students who were attempting to increase the number of Native Hawaiians admitted to the school. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs gave Ahahui o Hawai'i a grant of $49,003 to implement the program. The program has helped overall; the number of Native Hawaiians applying to and entering the law school has increased significantly.

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About a third of Americans lack health insurance, and most of the uninsured are young. So Jeff Traylor, a law student at Lewis & Clark Law School in Oregon, has decided to spread the word via Facebook. Since his full-time restaurant job didn't provide him with health insurance, Traylor became frustrated and decided more awareness regarding health insurance issues was needed. He created a Facebook group addressing the state of health insurance in the U.S. so that more people could be informed about the healthcare problems plaguing the nation and possibly do something about them.

Former Starbucks CEO Gives University $200,000 in Honor of Law Professor
Law professor and President of the University at Buffalo William R. Greiner was touched when retired Starbucks Corp. CEO Orin Smith gave him a call. The former UB student made the call to his former professor, whom he last saw 30 years ago. He called the school in order to find a way to give back to his professor and ended up awarding the school $200,000 in honor of the man he considers his mentor. The contribution led to the creation of a new space at the university where people can converse and study: the William R. Greiner Law Faculty Reading Room in O'Brian Hall. Smith was happy to reach out to the mentor who eventually indirectly led him to business school at Harvard. Smith became COO of Starbucks in 1994 and CEO of the company in 2000.