WHERE HAVE WE BEEN? MARCH FOR LIFE For the last 17 years, Ave Law students and faculty have participated in the March for Life in Washington D.C. The trip is organized by the Lex Vitae Society (Pro-Life Organization on campus). This year 25 students, Dean Cieply, Monsignor McGrath, administrators, and faculty attended the March. In addition, Ave Law had a booth at the March for Life Expo and our students attended the Law of Life Summit. The Law of Life Summit is an event started by Alumnus Royce Hood (‘12) to highlight how the legal community is vital for the Pro-Life movement. The event highlights the many great pro-life organizations and provides a venue for a discussion of this relevant and topical legal issue facing the country today. The annual trip to the March for Life is a must for Ave Law.
Students, faculty, and staff proudly represented Ave Law and the Lex Vitae Society at the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
SLS18 CONFERENCE Ave Law was a proud sponsor of SLS18 in Chicago, IL this January. SLS is a bi-annual student leadership conference presented by FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students). Associate Director Naomi Hatton (‘17) and 3L Sarah Prosser (‘18) attended on behalf of Ave Law. They met hundreds of young Catholics anxious to learn about opportunities for their future, both academically and spiritually. Ave Law offers competitive full-tuition scholarships for FOCUS Missionaries and to graduates of Catholic undergraduate institutions. Ave Law looks forward to attending and sponsoring the Seek Conference next year in Indianapolis, IN.
Nicole Santini (‘20)
Pete Fernandes (‘20), Reyna Anderson (‘19), Gabriella Fernandes (‘20)
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SVA NATCON 2018 Ave Law was also a proud sponsor of the Student Veterans Association (SVA) at the National Conference in San Antonio, TX this January. The SVA National Conference is the largest gathering of student veterans in the country, with over 1,500 attendees. SVA’s resources support a network of over 1,300 schools across the country, amounting to over 500,000 student veterans. The non-profit organization provides a series of resources, such as chapter support, scholarship opportunities, and leadership training. Ave Law seeks to become the destination law school for veterans.
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Associate Director Tabitha Canalda (‘17) and 2L Diego Gil (‘19) attended on behalf of Ave Law. Diego Gil is the President of the newly formed SVA Chapter at Ave Law, which is now known as the Veterans Law Student Association (VLSA). We look forward to the great things VLSA will accomplish on campus in the upcoming year.
SPIRITUAL CORNER ST. THOMAS MORE PRAYER FOR LAWYERS Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be trustworthy with confidences, keen in study, accurate in analysis, correct in conclusion, able in argument, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, ever attentive to conscience. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients’ tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul. Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain—their good servant, and God’s first. Amen.
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Joe Bare (‘19) pictured during the Fall 2017 semester in front of Ave Law’s Veterans Memorial Law Library. Joe is a second year student and a proud veteran of the United States Armed Forces.
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