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UCLA Law Students Win
7th Annual Transactional LawMeet
Three UCLA Law students — Jeffrey Brandt ’16, Christine M. Ristow ’17 and Matthew J. Weber ’16 — were named national champions in the Seventh Annual Transactional LawMeet. The final round of the national negotiation competition was held in April in New York and hosted by the law office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. The students worked as a team to draft a transactional agreement and negotiate the merger of two emerging tech-
nology companies. A total of 84 teams participated in the regional competition, with 14 teams selected to compete live in the national rounds. The Transactional LawMeet is the premier “moot court” experience for students interested in a transactional practice, designed to give them a hands-on opportunity to develop and hone two critical transactional lawyering skills: drafting contract provisions and negotiating those provisions within the bounds of the client’s instructions. The teams were judged by a panel of experts. The winning UCLA Law team was supported by the law school’s Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy. The Lowell Milken Institute organized the team, arranged for coaches and provided financial support for travel. The team was coached by Professor Michael Woronoff and alumnus Payom Pirahesh ’11.
Aguirre Receives ‘30 Under 30’ Award Emilie Aguirre, researcher and policy fellow at the Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy, was named in June as one of the University of California’s Global Food Initiative “30 Under 30” Award recipients. The award honors the contributions of outstanding young researchers and innovators working to resolve the global food crisis. Aguirre, 29, has dedicated her career to researching advanced solutions for a more equitable, sustainable, and transparent global food system. As an academic fellow at the Resnick Program, Aguirre teaches food law courses and has worked to launch a legal intake and referral service for nonprofit organizations and small businesses working to provide healthy, sustainable food production.
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