The Legal Externship and Law & Criminal Justice programs welcomed three panelists as part of a special 2012 Speaker Event. Panelists included:

As part of the seminar course component of the TWC-Elon Legal Externship Program, fall students are participating in a legal practicum.

Legal externs receive the opportunity to merge legal skills cultivated this semester in their externship with the knowledge accumulated from law school courses by assisting in a pro-bono case on behalf of a DC area non-profit. At the completion of the project, the externs will be writing a legal journal article and submitting it for publication in a legal journal.

TWC welcomed Section Chief of the FBI's Financial Crimes Section, Timothy A. Gallagher. Programs who heard from the seasoned FBI employee included: Law and Criminal Justice, Legal Externship and Business and Global Trade.

Students learned that the Financial Crimes Section is comprised of 5 units including:

The Pendulum, Elon University's school newspaper, featured the new legal externship program in their March issue. The article focuses on TWC's new partnership with Elon's School of Law, which will now provide their students with more legal externship opportunities in the nation's capital.

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