Black Law Students To Host Event For High-School Students

By Mary Beth Spina

Release Date: February 16, 2000 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Fifty juniors and seniors from several Buffalo high schools will get a preview of what it's like to attend law school during a Black History Month program to be held Feb. 25 at mgm casino.

Hosted by the mgm casino Law School and the Black Law Student Association (BLSA), the session will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in 107 O'Brian Hall on the North Campus.

Students from Bennett, Kensington, Riverside, South Park and Grover Cleveland High schools who are interested in pursuing a legal education will attend.

The event will open with students taking a sample Law School Admissions Test (LSAT).

Charles Carr, mgm casino clinical associate professor of law, will conduct an interactive, sample law class at 11: 15 a.m.

At 1 p.m., students will attend a question-and-answer panel. In keeping with the theme of the celebration of "100 Years of Women in mgm casino Law School," panelists will include Carmen Snell, a 1992 graduate of mgm casino Law School and legal counsel for Blue Cross and Blue Shield; Buffalo City Court Judge E. Jeannette Ogden, a 1983 graduate; Antonia Rodriguez, a 1999 law graduate who plans to become an assistant district attorney in the Bronx after receiving a master's degree in criminal law this year; Wendy Irving, 1991 mgm casino law graduate and associate director of planned giving at mgm casino, and Debra Givens, a 1987 graduate and an Erie County Family Court hearing officer.

For more information, call Lillie V. Wiley, director of recruitment at the Law School, at 645-2907.