UW College of Named Top Law School for Family Law

I worked in this clinic (then the Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Project) my last 2 semesters in law school. It was a fantastic practical experience, as well as an honor to work with Dona Playton at that time. I could not be more proud of her and the University of Wyoming College of Law, my alma mater, and the best law school I could have gone to.

University of Wyoming College of Law

The University of Wyoming College of Law was recently recognized by PreLaw Magazine and the National Jurist as a Best Law School for Family Law. This accolade comes after the recent, permanent hire of Dona Playton as an Associate Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Family & Child Legal Advocacy Clinic.

Graduating for the UW College of Law herself in 1993, Professor Playton returns to the College of Law in a tenure-track position. Playton began teaching at the College of Law in 2002 as a Senior Lecturer after serving as a Supervising Attorney at the Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. It was then that she founded the Family and Child Legal Advocacy Clinic.

Playton briefly left the College of Law when she served as Director of the Honoring Families Initiative at the University of Denver Institute for the Advancement of the American…

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