During our recent Open House and interviews, the most common feedback from alumni was: “What a strong class! The field has never been more competitive—there are so many outstanding candidates.” The trustees were in full agreement, and we are honored to award a number of new scholarships for the coming Read more
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
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
Fleeson Gooing is pleased to announce that Nathaniel T. Martens has become a member of the firm. Nate graduated magna cum laude from Washburn University School of Law in 2016 where he was a two-time Weigand Scholar and Editor-in-Chief of Volume 55 of the Washburn Law Journal. While in law Read more
Laurel Klein Searles, Washburn 2008, has been named Assistant General Counsel with the Office of Judicial Administration for the Kansas Supreme Court. OJA implements the rules and policies of the Supreme Court as they apply to operation and administration of the judicial branch. Laurel will primarily be managing the Attorney Read more
A HUGE thank you and congratulations to our Weigand of the Year, Jennifer Salva! Jennifer, a 2019 graduate of Washburn School of Law, has been instrumental in the development, planning, and execution of our quarterly newsletter, The WeigandWire. The WeigandWire not only helps alumni keep up to date with happenings Read more
Congratulations to Lizzy McEntire, rising 3L at Washburn Law School! She’s received a lot of great news! Her note is being published, she received Best Note, AND she’s been selected to be an Energy and Mineral Foundation Scholar! Way to go, Lizzie!
Congratulations to our new class of Weigand Scholars! We’re so happy to introduce and welcome these members of the family. Top Row (l to r) Ellie Augustine, Incoming 1L, Notre DameHometown: Overland ParkUndergrad: University of Kansas, Classical LanguagesOver the last year, Ellie has been a Seton Teaching Fellow in The Read more
John Ralston, 2L at Washburn University, has accepted a two year clerkship with the US District Court District of Kansas in Judge Eric F. Melgren’s chambers. John will begin in the fall of 2022 following his Third Year Anywhere with Triplett Woolf Garretson in Wichita, KS. Congratulations, John!
Congratulations to Kate Davis, Washburn ’20. Kate is currently working in the Labor and Employment group at Spencer Fane in Kansas City, and will continue with them until fall, 2022. She’ll then move to Wichita for a two-year clerkship for U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas in the Read more