RALEIGH — The Campbell Law Connections mentor program will wrap up another successful year of partnering current students with practicing legal professionals this week with an event at Vidrio on Tuesday, announced Assistant Dean of External Relations Megan Sherron ’10, who directs the Connections program.
Since 2013, Campbell Law Connections, which is a joint endeavor between the law school and the Wake County Bar Association, has worked with alumni to help provide students valuable learning opportunities and experiences.
“Our goal is to help mentees develop meaningful professional relationships and a more thorough understanding of the responsibilities and ethics demanded by the practice of law under the tutelage of a mentor,” Sherron explains. “Connections builds upon Campbell Law’s professionalism focus that permeates its core curriculum.”
Connections received a 2016 E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award from the American Bar Association. The award honors excellence and innovation in professionalism programs by law schools, bar associations, professionalism commissions and other law-related organizations. In selecting Connections, the Gambrell Award Judges and selection committee found the program to represent an exemplary law student and new lawyer mentoring program model, embracing best practices and effective strategies, as well as a model bar/law school partnership for others to follow.
Connections began with a pilot phase during the Spring 2014 semester with 40...
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