Introducing our 2025-2026 class of Weigand Scholars. Celebrating the best of Kansas! Ambrose Shaughnessy, 2L Notre Dame: This summer, Ambrose will intern for Judge Teeter on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. Trey LaRue, 2L Washburn: Trey worked as a legal assistant at Stevens & Brand, Read more…
Congratulations to Katie Jo Luningham on her new position as the Director of Litigation Counsel at Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.. Her new job is to manage and handle pre-litigation disputes, litigation matters (including general liability, product liability, trademark, patent, and contract disputes), and responses to government agencies in the US, Read more…
As we say goodbye and thank you to Nestor Weigand as Trustee, we welcome Nes Weigand to fill his father’s role. Tacit knowledge—that is, knowledge stemming from intuition, context, and experience—is rarely articulated but deeply known. According to Weigand Trustee Gerry O’Shaughnessy, this is the sort of knowledge that J.L. Read more…
Congratulations to Bernadette! Bernadette Shaughnessy is the recipient of the H. King Williams Memorial Award for her significant contribution to building community at Notre Dame Law School. Bernadette has served on the executive boards of Jus Vitae and the St. Thomas More Society, the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics Read more…
Congratulations to Olivia! Olivia Rogers (Notre Dame, 3L) and her teammate Leo O’Malley finished in first place in the Seigenthaler-Sutherland Cup National First Amendment Moot Court Competition. The competition was held in Washington, D.C. at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law where 30 teams from 28 schools competed. Read more…
Introducing our 2023-2024 class of Weigand Scholars. Celebrating the best of Kansas! Bernadette Shaughnessy, 3L Notre Dame: This summer, Bernadette will be a summer associate with Husch Blackwell in Kansas City. She has a judicial clerkship lined up with Judge Gruender in St. Louis with the Eighth Circuit for her Read more…
Click here to read our latest publication – featuring Sarah Macke, Ryan Raybould and Katie Jo Luningham.
Olivia Rogers, 1L at Notre Dame has secured not one, but TWO federal clerkships after she graduates! Fall 2023 – She’ll be clerking for Judge Kevin Newsom in the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Birmingham, Alabama. Fall 2024 – She moves to Minneapolis, MN to clerk Read more…