The Legal Eagle Review

In the aftermath of a $25 million settlement in the wrongful conviction case of Ronnie Long, who spent 44 years in prison for crimes that he did not commit, on this show, we talk with his attorneys who direct the Duke University Law School Wrongful Conviction Clinic.

On this show, we discuss the history, mission, and activities of the NCCU Veterans Law Clinic and how it strives to assist present and former service members to achieve the benefits and honor to which they are entitled. Our guest is NCCU Law Professor Stephen Valentine, a former service member and military lawyer and the director of the NCCU School of Law Veterans Law Clinic.

October 15, 2023, begins estate planning week. On this show, we talk with three experts about the need for everyone to do estate planning. Our guests are Dorothy Nachman, Professor of Law at NCCU School of Law, where she teaches, among other courses, Property, Decedents' Estates, and Estate and Gift Taxation; Mariah Street, Business and Legacy Planning Attorney; and Pamela Harrigan-Young, Attorney, Tax Expert, and CPA.

On this show, we have an informative and revealing discussion with the Honorable Patricia Timmons Goodson, who is beginning her tenure as the Dean of the NCCU School of Law.

On this show, we talk about the budget changes to the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission and how those changes largely eliminate the participation of lawyers and give one party the power to select the vast majority of the members. Our guests are Former NC Court of Appeals Judge and former NC Judicial Standards Commission chair, Wanda Bryant, and former NC Court of Appeals Judge Chris Brook, a lawyer with Patterson Harkavy and an adjunct Constitutional law professor at NCCU School of Law.

Environmental racism describes the long-standing discriminatory practice of racial discrimination in environmental policy, the enforcement of regulations and laws, and the deliberate targeting of communities of color for the location of toxic waste facilities. On this show, we will discuss how the industrial hog operations in NC are contributing to environmental racism right here in North Carolina with our guests Blakely Hildebrand, a senior attorney at Southern Environmental Law Center, Sophia Jayanty, counsel in the fair housing division of Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Christopher Brook, Former North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge, attorney with Patterson Harkavy, and adjunct professor at NCCU School of Law.

On this show, we have an informative and revealing discussion

On this show, we discuss the July 1944 murder of Private Booker Spicely in Durham at the hands of a Duke Power Company bus driver because he peacefully protested a demand that he move to the back of the bus. Presently underway are local efforts designed to erect a public monument in Durham to honor his service and to promote a community symposium that honors Spicely and other African-American soldiers who were killed as a result of similar efforts. Our guest is Stephen Valentine, Director of the Veterans Law Clinic at the NCCU School of Law.

On this show, we will discuss the continued acts of white domestic terrorism against Black people in this country following the tragic racially motivated killing of three Black individuals in a predominately black community near Jacksonville, Florida, with our guests Ted Shaw, the Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of NC School of Law, and Artemesia Stanberry, Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University.

On this show, we discuss the impact technology is having on the legal profession, and we discuss the NCCU Technology Law & Policy Center with Attorney Diane Littlejohn, Executive Director of the NCCU Technology Law and Policy Center and 2010 graduate of NCCU School of Law, and Attorney Cedric Pickett, a Tech Law Fellows for the NCCU Technology Law and Policy Center, a Certified Information Privacy Professional, and 2018 graduate of NCCU School of Law.