06/12/07 Knight Foundation to fund Yale's Law and Media Scholars Program Yale Law School will receive the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation award, which consists of a $2.5 million challenge grant aimed at producing future media scholars. The grant will help Yale create the Knight Law and Media Scholars Program—a permanent program to train future legal journalists and media lawyers. The challenge also requires the school to bring in more funding to create a $5 million endowment to ensure the program's sustainability. Participants in the Knight Law and Media Scholars Program will be picked from among Yale's J.D. and graduate law students. Apart from law and media courses, the program will include scholarships, research fellowships, summer internships, career counseling, and an annual training program for mid-career journalists. Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh said the program would build upon Yale's "history of producing leading legal journalists, First Amendment lawyers, and media entrepreneurs uniquely able to explore the common intellectual space where the law and media intersect." Yale Law alumnus Steven Brill, who founded Court TV and The American Lawyer, will join the Knight Foundation as a co-investor. In addition to pledging support for the program, Brill recently donated $1 million to Yale College in order to introduce journalism to undergraduate classes. Alumni donate funds to support clinical program at IU Two Indiana University alumni, David Elmore and his son, D.G. Elmore, have donated $3 million to the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington to create scholarships for the school's entrepreneurship law clinic students. The clinic will be formally renamed the Elmore Entrepreneurship Law Clinic in recognition of the major contribution. IU School of Law Dean Lauren Robel said the Elmores' "transformational gift" will ensure that "this unique and path-breaking clinic continues into the future" and lets law students "take advantage of the educational opportunities the clinic offers." The entrepreneurship clinic, a unique joint venture between the law school and IU's Kelley School of Business, offers third- and fourth-year J.D./M.B.A. joint-degree students the chance to assist new business establishments with legal and business planning. "We all need more than one draft to get it right" "We all need more than one draft to get it right," Samford University President Andrew Westmoreland told the 158 graduates from the university's Cumberland School of Law while presiding over his first law school commencement after assuming office last year. Addressing the student body, Westmoreland stated that "great writing, great ideas, [and] great lives" are the results of decades of toil and hard work. "Leave time for editing" he advised, encouraging the graduating class to draw a parallel in life between settling for a first draft and working to create edited drafts. Life also "takes a lot of editing," he told the audience assembled in Samford's Wright Center Concert Hall. He expressed concern that most people neglect the importance of editing their work, saying that we risk misrepresenting ourselves by allowing ourselves to be identified by only the first drafts of our work. Washington Law designs project to connect ethnic communities Washington University School of Law's Alternative Dispute Resolution Program recently organized a novel mediation-training project. The program was aimed at promoting constructive relationships between ethnic communities living in St. Louis. The participants, 41 individuals representing 26 ethnic groups, were given intensive community-mediation training. The project was set up with funds from the ASC Foundation, Norman J. Stupp Foundation, and Employees Community Fund of Boeing, Inc. The project included training for non-English-speaking participants with the help of translators and also involved students working for the law school's Civil Rights and Community Justice Clinic. Want to read more JD2B Law School News headlines? For past editions of our weekly JD2B Law School News, click here.

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