University of Richmond School of Law Magazine

Professor Mary Tate, Baley Ellicott L'24, and Anne Wroniewicz sit around a table talking.

Richmond Law’s Institute for Actual Innocence clinic works to exonerate the wrongfully convicted and advocate for the overly punished — a challenge that demands as much heart as it does intellect.

An illustration showing silhouettes of two lawyers sitting at laptops, facing each other. One lawyer looks exhausted and frustrated, sitting with her head on her hand. Multiple duplicate silhouettes of her fade off into the distance behind her. The other lawyer sits upright and alert. Binary code comes out of her computer towards her face representing her use of AI assistive technology.

Artificial Intelligence

Law’s newest laboratory

As AI shifts the professional landscape for practicing attorneys, legal education adapts to the latest technological disruption.

Brother Rutter, L’94, in The Rutter Family Art Foundation space

Work-life Balance

Take good care

Brother Rutter, L’94, says prioritizing his roles as husband, father, and arts patron made him a more empathetic injury lawyer.

For the Record

Moot Courtroom

Class is now in session

The Moot Courtroom got an upgrade over the summer, allowing the space to double as a classroom.

A man stands with his sisters on each side of him.

Post-conviction Law

Full exoneration for clinic client

The Institute for Actual Innocence clinic secured a life-altering victory for its client Marvin Grimm, who was unanimously awarded a writ of actual innocence by the Virginia Court of Appeals in June.

Emroch Lecture

And health justice for all

For the 2024 Emroch Lecture, Amy Kapczynski — professor of law and faculty co-director at Yale Law School — spoke about law and political economy.

Diversity

Students attend diversity conference

Alexia Inge, L’25, and Kaelynn Wallace, L’26, represented Richmond Law at the Virginia State Bar Diversity Conference in Virginia Beach this year.

“I want [this clinic] to be part of the web of community and integrated with the folks serving the community”

— Cassie Powell, L'16

Alumni

“We think of ourselves as stewards of a larger landscape — a community of life.”

— Greg Luce, L'77

Stewardship

Wide open spaces

Before there was Yellowstone’s John Dutton, there was alum Greg Luce, L’77. The lawyer-turned-rancher owns a historic cattle ranch spanning 100,000 acres in Wyoming.

Legal Enforcement

Fairness enforcer

Tina Gubb, L’98, is the fairness-enforcing alum protecting the integrity of financial markets as senior vice president for legal enforcement at FINRA.

Corporate Law

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