Third-year law student Francesca Kester was named the 2016 recipient of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation Joseph T. McDonald Scholarship. Michael J. McDonald, a 1979 alumnus and managing partner of McDonald and MacGregor LLC, presented the award to Kester in the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium, located in Lewis Katz Hall at Dickinson Law.

Law students in Dickinson Law’s Children’s Advocacy Clinic represent children who have been through stressful and traumatic experiences, often resulting in intense cases in the courtroom. They now have a partner who’s helping to relieve some of the anxiety that children experience while testifying at the Cumberland County Courthouse. Third-year Dickinson Law student Rue-Ann Gabriel (left) meets Diego and his handler, Lindsay Baird, at the Cumberland County Courthouse.

The Public Interest Law Fund Auction (PILF) will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. on March 16 at Carlisle Comfort Suites. The annual auction serves as PILF’s main fundraising event, and all monies raised directly fund summer fellowships for Dickinson Law students at nonprofit legal organizations or government agencies.

Eleven students from Penn State's Dickinson Law joined 160 public interest employers and more than 1,200 students from nearly 200 law schools at the 30th Equal Justice Works Conference and Career Fair.

Third-year Dickinson Law student Francesca Kester was presented the D. Arthur Magaziner Human Services Award for her outstanding record of academic achievement and service to others at the annual Philadelphia alumni reception held on Nov. 2.