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ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law hosted Bridging Troubled Waters: Counseling Fundamentals for Academic Support Professionals, June 21-22, sponsored by the Law School ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Council. It was the first counseling skills training course to be offered in the 17 years of annual meetings following the inaugural conference that marked the establishment of the academic support field within legal education nationally.

Alexis Martinez has been named assistant dean for student affairs at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law. She earned degrees in higher education administration and law from the University of Miami. Meanwhile, Lisa Watson joins the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law library with degrees in law and library science from the University of Kentucky School of Law and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Students now have expanded e-mail capability as a result of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's partnership with Google. All student e-mail accounts have been converted to Google’s web-based e-mail service, Gmail. The conversion took place on June 1 and required no action from students. Returning students' e-mail addresses (student@elon.edu) and passwords remain the same. Inbox contents, including calendar appointments and contacts, were automatically transferred to the new Gmail accounts.

More than 30 second- and third-year law students volunteered to be student-mentors to incoming law students in August. The student-mentors are part of the L.E.A.F.S. program, which stands for Leadership at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ by Advising First-Year Students.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ leaders on Monday formally announced the names of four distinguished professors named to endowed professorships. Eric Fink, Roland Smith, Brant Touchette and Catherine McNeela were recognized during the opening ceremony for Planning Week 2010.