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,…

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…

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.

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…

May 6, 2025

Mizzou Law 3L wins Women’s Justice Award

Karen Crouch, 3L, won the Leaders of Tomorrow Award at the Women’s Justice Awards Banquet hosted by Missouri Lawyers Media. The Leaders of Tomorrow award is given to women law students who demonstrate leadership, professionalism and a passion for making a difference in the justice system or the legal profession. To read more about Karen, visit: https://molawyersmedia.com/2025/04/09/wja-2025-leaders-of-tomorrow-karen-crouch/…

May 5, 2025

3L earns prestigious national trial advocacy award

Ethan Deimeke, a 3L at Mizzou Law, has been selected as an Academic All-American Trial Advocate by the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators (NALAE).  This prestigious award is based on several factors, including competition success, academic achievement, and leadership in one’s law school and community. Only 20 of these awards were given to law students across the country in 2025.

April 30, 2025

Mizzou Law student research earns third place at graduate/professional council forum

Mizzou Law 3L Georgia Bronson, an executive member of the Business, Entrepreneurship, and Tax Law Review, presented her research: “Hey Girlie, Want to Sell Your Soul?” How the U.S. Can Counteract Predatory Cult Activities Through the Lens of Fraudulent Business Schemes at the 41st Research & Creative Activities Forum (RCAF) 2025. Her research article was published in the most recent issue of BETR, which can be read here. Bronson earned third place for her research in the humanities, socials, and liberal arts division. She was the only law student to be accepted and able to present within the whole forum as they focused…

April 21, 2025

Student Bar Association wins Mizzou award

The Student Bar Association was awarded Large Group of the Year at Mizzou’s Student Involvement Awards. The award is given to the recognized student organization (with membership over 120 individuals) that is recognized as best exhibiting an overall commitment to serving the members within the organization, the University of Missouri and surrounding Columbia community.  Receiving the award was SBA President Sophia Marcolla and Treasurer Adam Thomas.

April 9, 2025

2024-25 CALI Award Winners

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Excellence for the Future Awards recognize students with the highest grade in each course at Mizzou Law. These were awarded at the annual Edna Nelson Awards Banquet this April. Below are the CALI Award winners for the 2024 calendar year. Spring 2024 CALI Winners Cody Deterding, Michael Moedritzer, Meghan McAuliff, Jordan Todd, Lauren Bean, Todd Hamby, Eric Siemens, Maggie Pfaff, Anna Miller, Bryce Rone, Andrew West, Brooks Fleischmann, Paige Harris, Caleb Ross, Hope Adamson, Alex Besharat, Jeff Giesmann, Adam Walker, Andrew Boyer, Steven Flanders, Paige Slusser, Hannah Rodriguez, Brett Newberry, Eric Humphrey, Macy…

Feb. 24, 2025

Mizzou Law team wins international moot court competition

Congratulations to the Mizzou Law team who won the Global Antitrust Institute’s annual moot court competition in Washington, DC! Austin Siener, 3L, and 2Ls Luke Nutwell and Eric Siemens defeated teams from around the world including Brazil, India and several top U.S. law schools! The Mizzou Law team survived six rounds of argument, including a final round judged by Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (pictured); Bilal Sayyed, former director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy and Planning; and Adam Cella, Chief Counsel for the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust…