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Q&A with Maha Sayed '13, summer intern at Hegazy & Associates in Cairo, EgyptMaha Sayed '13 spent the summer of 2012 interning at the Cairo office of Hegazy & Associaties. We caught up with her to learn more about her experiences.

Tax scholar James M. Puckett joins the facultyFor Professor James M. Puckett who recently joined the faculty at Penn State Law, the name of the game is fairness. He is a scholar of distributive justice.

District Attorneys will explore the role of the modern day prosecutor at Penn State LawA panel of eight Pennsylvania district attorneys moderated by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin ’75 will discuss the evolution of the role of chief prosecutor on Monday, September 24 at 3:30 p.m. at Penn State University Dickinson School of Law.

National Jurist names Penn State Law one 20 most innovative law schoolsNational Jurist names Penn State Law one 20 most innovative law schools.

Jennifer Young: International Government Affairs AdvocateJennifer Young ’05 is a woman on the move. As Director of International Public and Government Affairs at Novartis Corporation, she travels extensively across Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Working in international settings and across cultures is one of her favorite aspects of her work, and doing so requires flexibility.

Law School welcomes Class of 2015The newest group of Penn State Law students arrived on campus, bringing an array of life experiences and professional perspectives to the study of law. Comprised of 165 students ages 20-44, the J.D. Class of 2015 includes people who have lived, worked, and volunteered in 19 countires and speakers of Spanish, French, Russian, Portugese, Arabic, Korean, and Chinese. The class includes eight students who hold master's degrees in public policy, aerospace and mechanical engineering, education, forensic psychology, and other fields.

California’s rural poor get legal help from Geoff Trautman ‘13Across the bay from University of California at Santa Cruz where Geoff Trautman ’13 studied Politics as an undergraduate, the Watsonville office of California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) serves the state’s rural poor. Trautman works there providing legal support to the rural residents of Santa Cruz and San Benito counties.

Devan Flahive ’14: A budding antitrust attorneyFor three years before law school Devan Flahive ’14 lived, ate, and breathed dairy science as a nutritionist at Cargill, an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. After one year at Penn State Law, she is up to her elbows in agriculture once again, this time as a budding antitrust attorney.

Q&A with Monika OyamaMonika Oyama was a summer associate at White & Case in Tokyo. We caught up with her to learn more about her experiences.

Korean Criminologist studies comparative law at Penn StateSherlock Holmes and detective fiction is what got Penn State Law LL.M. student Dr. Joon Tae Lim interested in the study of crime and crime prevention. Now, his career in law enforcement is based on careful analysis of facts and law.