Regent Law News

Regent University School of Law Professor Bruce N. Cameron has filed an amicus brief in Patterson v. Walgreen Co. in support of the employee. He and alumnus Blaine Hutchinson (JD '18) published an article about the case last year, Thinking Slow About Abercrombie & Fitch: Straightening Out the Judicial Confusion in the Lower Courts (forthcoming Pepperdine Law Review). "In Abercrombie & Fitch, the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed the way that Title VII religious accommodation cases are litigated and evaluated." Their article explains these changes and suggests an altered proof framework for plaintiffs seeking an accommodation. Professor Cameron is the Reed Larson Professor of Labor Law at Regent University School of Law and a staff attorney at the National Right to Work Foundation. Blaine Hutchinson currently works as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Robert Jones of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Nevada. You can read mo...

Regent University School of Law Alumnus Kim Shaftner, MD, JD, was recently elected elected as a Fellow in the American College of Legal Medicine. Dr. Shaftner has had a truly amazing career. He practiced medicine for twenty-four years, including in the Navy and in private practice, before enrolling in the JD program at Regent. He has held the position of Physician Attorney at Knott & Boyle, PLLC in Raleigh-Durham since 2009. Dr. Shaftner also serves as an adjunct professor of law at Regent, where he teaches Health Care Law. You can read more about Dr. Shaftner here: http://www.knottboyle.com/ourfirm/shaftner/. Congratulations, Dr. Shaftner! We continue to be extremely proud of the outstanding achievements of our alumni as they continue to change the world for Christ.

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (March 1, 2019) ― Hundreds gathered inside Robertson Hall’s Moot Courtroom for the installation service of Regent University’s new dean of the School of Law, the Honorable Mark Martin. Having stepped down as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina a day earlier, Martin brings a wealth of judicial and leadership experience to his new position. Martin served North Carolina for more than 26 years as a judge, including 20-plus years on the state’s Supreme Court. In 1992, at age 29, Martin became the youngest superior court judge in the modern era. Just two years later, at 31 years old, Martin became the youngest judge in the history of the N.C. Court of Appeals. In 1998, as a 35-year-old, Martin was elected as the youngest Justice in the history of the Supreme Court of N.C., becoming Chief Justice on September 1, 2014. Regent’s Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Gerson Moreno-Riaño, served as host for the installation service. He call...

Regent University School of Law continues to forge ahead in its mission to produce practice-ready graduates and superior bar passage rates. Thanks especially to the efforts of Professor Ben Madison, Director of Bar Passage Initiatives and Co-Director of the Center for Ethical Formation & Legal Education Reform, the Law School continues to develop and implement student-centered initiatives to help students optimize their Bar Exam preparation. Recently, Regent University School of Law invited several recent law graduates to address current students on “How to Pass the Bar.” The panelists described their experience preparing for the Bar Exam. A common theme emphasized by the speakers was that bar prep should be treated like a full-time job. They recommended avoiding working at home, instead watching the lectures at school (if offered at Regent by the course provider). They suggested studying at the law library, which has a variety of study areas and reserves certain study rooms fo...

Interim Dean Cook and a number of our faculty and staff attended the First Annual Virginia Law Student Wellness Summit at the University of Virginia, organized by the Virginia State Bar and co-sponsored by the The Virginia Bar Association, and Virginia Lawyers Helping Lawyers, among others. The event was attended by the deans of each Virginia law school, who were introduced by the Honorable William C. Mims, Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia. We are grateful to have had the opportunity to engage with our colleagues and counterparts in the Virginia legal community about this important topic! Pictured, left to right: Associate Director of Career & Alumni Services Rosey Mellion, Interim Dean Doug Cook, Associate Dean L.O. Natt Gantt, and VSB President Len Heath. Regent representatives not pictured: Diane Hess Hernandez (‘19) and Lisa Kieser (‘17).

Congratulations to Regent University School of Law graduate Bradley L. Knox on being named Senior Vice President and Counsel, Federal Relations of Aflac Inc.! According to Audrey Boone Tillman, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Aflac, "Brad has a proven track record of strong leadership and results, and I have no doubt that he will continue to represent Aflac with the same degree of integrity, dedication and excellence he has shown throughout his accomplished career, both before and since joining our company more than a decade ago." We are so proud that Brad has continued to reflect these core values of the Law School while achieving such extraordinary professional success. Read more at https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/aflac-names-bradley-l-knox-as-svp-and-counsel-federal-relations/.

In December, Regent University School of Law M.A. in Law graduate Ian Lawrence passed the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) exam, becoming the first with a concentration in Wealth Management & Financial Planning to do so. Ian was attracted to the program because of the curriculum's strong practical application to his career goals: "This program is focused on preparing a person to take the CFP exam and it is easy to see how each course relates to that goal. The curriculum covers many practical areas that are easy to use in my life." The M.A. program also offered him, as a non-traditional student, the flexibility he needed to balance work and family with additional education. Ian was able to take several courses online and set aside time in the evenings and on weekends to focus on school. "I have a wife and two young kids and I work full-time so [it was] definitely a challenge," Ian said. "I was aware that school would require a good bit of my time, but ...