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don seitz presents to veterans

June 3, 2025

ELC Director Don Seitz presents to veterans

Don Seitz, professor and director of the Mizzou Law Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic presented to veterans from across the nation as a part of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans. In his presentation, Professor Seitz discussed legal issues for new entrepreneurs to be aware of and address when starting their new businesses. The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans (EBV) national program is a novel, one-of-a-kind initiative designed to leverage the skills, resources and infrastructure of higher education to offer cutting-edge, experiential training in entrepreneurship and small business management to post-9/11 veterans with a passion for entrepreneurship. The aim of the program is…

erika lietzan

May 30, 2025

Professor Lietzan appointed to ACUS administrative committee

Professor Erika Lietzan has been appointed as the chair of the Committe on Administration & Management of the Administrative Conference of the United States(ACUS).  Her service in this capacity begins on July 1, 2025. ACUS is a federal agency tasked with identifying and promoting improvements in the efficiency, adequacy and fairness of the procedures by which federal agencies conduct regulatory programs, administer grants and benefits, protect the public interest and perform other essential governmental functions. Lietzan previously was a public member of ACUS and a member of a different committee. The committee she will be chairing considers issues that affect the efficiency…

renee henson

May 29, 2025

Professor Henson presents on AI in legal education

Professor Renee Henson attended the IAPP AI Governance Global Europe Conference in Dublin, Ireland, where she served as a roundtable discussion leader, facilitating a conversation on artificial intelligence in legal education.

shruti rana and rana lehr-lehnardt

May 29, 2025

Professor Rana presents at Law and Society Association conference

Professor and Assistant Provost Shruti Rana presented her paper, Thriving Against the Tide: Fostering Alternative Pathways to Careers in International Law, with her co-author, Professor Rana Lehr-Lehnardt, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, at the Realist Empirical Studies of Legal Education and Legal Academia panel at the Law and Society Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL on May 24, 2025. 

erika lietzan

May 28, 2025

Professor Lietzan presents at Food and Drug Law Institute annual meeting

Professor Erika Lietzan participated on a panel at the 2025 Food and Drug Law Institute Annual Conference examining the top cases in 2024-2025 that will affect FDA. On the panel, she spoke about the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2024 Loper Bright decision on the agency. Professor Lietzen is currently completing a paper on this topic as well.

joseph link

May 16, 2025

3L Graduate Spotlight — Joseph Link

It’s graduation week at Mizzou Law, and while we are celebrating all of our amazing graduating 3Ls, we are highlighting a few students who have lined up amazing first jobs out of law school! Today, we meet Joseph Link. What will you be doing once you finish graduation and take the Bar? I will be practicing estate planning at Lewis Rice in downtown St. Louis. How do you feel Mizzou Law has prepared you to begin your career in the legal field? Mizzou Law has given me the practical experience via the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic, Board of Advocates competitions,…

liz eastlund

May 14, 2025

3L Graduate Spotlight — Liz Eastlund

It’s graduation week at Mizzou Law, and while we are celebrating all of our amazing graduating 3Ls, we are highlighting a few students who have lined up amazing first jobs out of law school! Today, we meet Liz Eastlund. What will you be doing once you finish graduation and take the Bar? After graduating and taking the bar, I am moving to Chicago to work in Sidley Austin’s M&A and Private Equity practice group. How do you feel Mizzou Law has prepared you to begin your career in the legal field? Mizzou Law has best prepared me to begin…

tom langdon

May 13, 2025

3L Graduate Spotlight — Tom Langdon

It’s graduation week at Mizzou Law, and while we are celebrating all of our amazing graduating 3Ls, we are highlighting a few students who have lined up amazing first jobs out of law school! Today, we meet Tom Langdon! What will you be doing once you finish graduation and take the Bar? After graduation and the Missouri Bar Exam, I will be clerking at the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Kansas City, Missouri. Following my clerkship, I will be moving to Washington, D.C., to practice intellectual property law at Rothwell, Figg, Ernst, and Manbeck.

jessica esguerra

May 12, 2025

3L Graduate Spotlight — Jessica Esguerra

By Anna Sago Before entering law school, Jessica Esguerra knew that she wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps by serving in the military. Now a graduating 3L, Esguerra will further her service by working as a staff attorney at Mizzou Law’s Veterans Clinic and continue serving in the Missouri Air National Guard in a new role. Growing up, Esguerra knew she wanted to be a lawyer. However, after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, she wanted to serve in the military first. Though Esguerra initially planned to finish her service and go into health law after earning…

gretchen myers

May 8, 2025

Alumni Spotlight — Meet Gretchen Myers

by Anna Sago Growing up, Gretchen Myers, ’84, always viewed her father, a trial attorney and Mizzou Law graduate, as her hero. Now, after a long and decorated legal career, Myers will return to her and her father’s alma mater to deliver this year’s Mizzou Law commencement speech. Myers always admired her dad’s career as an attorney, calling him the “real life Atticus Finch.” But it was through debate and other public speaking in grade school and high school that her path was solidified. “I loved doing it. There was something about it that I found fun and exhilarating, when…