Black Law Students To Host Event For High-School Students

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 UB.

Hosted by the UB 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, UB 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 UB Law School," panelists will include Carmen Snell, a 1992 graduate of UB 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 UB law graduate and associate director of planned giving at UB, 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.