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College of Law Ranked Best School for Practical Training and Best Value Law School
My alma mater, yet again, rising to the top!
The University of Wyoming had another successful academic year earning distinction as a Best Law School for Practical Training and a Best Value Law School by PreLaw and The National Jurist Magazines. The College of Law has garnered recognition in both categories for six years running.
The 2019 fall edition of PreLaw and the National Jurist Magazines highlighted the UW College of Law as a best value law school. Under the methodology used to determine rank, the College of Law proved that graduates have excellent chances of passing the bar and getting a legal job without taking on a ton of debt. In addition to the obvious factors of tuition costs, costs of living, and average debt load upon graduation, the ultimate bar passage (two-year pass rate), and employment rates were also taken into consideration.
The College of Law has remained dedicated to keeping the cost of attendance affordable…
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Family and Child Legal Advocacy Clinic: Impacting Lives Inside and Outside the Courtroom
The clinics at UW Law Rock! More news from their neck o’ the woods…
Students in the Family and Child Legal Advocacy Clinic have been hard at work throughout the academic year, navigating the daily grind. While the perception that many cases are not always glamorous, for the people whose lives they are affecting, they are everything. Students in the clinic have thrived under the high stakes, high-pressure issues for their clients, and proven that they can hold their own both inside and outside the courtroom.
Some stand out student performances in the clinic have covered bench trials, settlements, and everything in-between.
In September of 2019, third-year law student Heidi Reeves-Messner, who serves the student director of the clinic, tackled two bench trials back to back, and achieved positive verdicts in both cases.
The first trial was argued in the District Court of Wyoming for the First Judicial District in front of the Honorable Catherine Rogers (J.D. ’97). Reeves-Messner argued in a Guardian…
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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.
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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PTA Mom to Lady Lawyer 