Several of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service students pursuing concurrent law degrees from the UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law are taking on clerkships, fellowships, and externships with law firms and judges this fall.
Below is a closer look at their work:
Mark Cameron – Mitchell Williams
Cameron is working with Mitchell Williams this semester assisting with cases primarily focused on defense litigation and transactional law.
Corinne Kwapis – Citizen Complaints Unit of the Pulaski County Prosecutor’s Office
Kwapis is working directly with the public and cooperatively with surrounding police departments in handling misdemeanor criminal offense.
Wes Manus – Abaca
Manus is working with an Arkansas-based financial services startup catering to the legal cannabis industry in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. He conducts research on securities, finance, business transactions, regulatory compliance, and public records to enable financial transactions for cultivators, dispensaries, research laboratories, and other businesses serving thousands of patients who benefit from the implementation of marijuana laws.
Aisosa Osaretin – Windstream Communications
Osaretin works on researching and writing memos on policies and laws that affect the telecommunications industry, which helps assure the corporation is up to date with new laws and regulations. Also, she works to keep in touch with information concerning prosecutions of other members of the telecommunication industry.
Alexis Pinkston – Anderson Murphy Hopkins
Pinkston is a law clerk at Anderson, Murphy, and Hopkins, which is a defense firm specializing in insurance issues. She conducts research, prepares lawsuit reports, and attends depositions and trials.
Dillon Pitts – Civil Department of the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office
Pitts is working in the Attorney General’s Office, specifically with the Assistant Attorneys General, researching legal issues, drafting legal memoranda, and reviewing documents for the State of Arkansas, its officers, boards, commissions, and employees.
Madhav Shroff – Sanford Law Firm
As one of the leading employment law firms in Arkansas, Shroff’s work at Sanford Law Firm includes assisting in representing plaintiffs and defendants in employment law issues including wage and labor law disputes, FLSA violations, overtime issues, discrimination, sexual harassment, and more.
Joseph Stepina – Arkansas Municipal League
Stepina is working in the Municipal Legal Defense Program, a service offered by the League whereby participating members can pool their resources and provide limited protection of city and employee assets. Members of the defense program are represented by the League in state and federal courts.
Connor Thompson – Arkansas Municipal League Defense Program
Thompson is a litigation law clerk working in the Municipal Legal Defense Program (MLDP) in North Little Rock, an organization that defends Arkansas municipalities involved in litigation. His work consists of assisting the attorneys with legal research and drafting briefs and pleadings.
Allison Tschiemer – Barber Law Firm
Tschiemer works at a full-service firm that focuses on civil defense litigation and business transactions. Some areas of practice at the firm include product liability, malpractice, toxic torts, workers’ compensation, environmental and commercial litigation. This clerkship allows Tschiemer the opportunity to expand her legal research and writing skills in various areas of law.
Jerome Wilson – Pulaski County Prosecutor’s Office
At the Pulaski County Prosecutor’s Office law clerks in the Complaints Department are tasked with the role of taking complaints from the residents of Pulaski County. This clerkship requires the interviewing of residents regarding incidents of criminal nature and processing the complaints about misdemeanor offenses. Resident complaints usually result in one of the following solutions: no action, the delivery of a warning letter, or an affidavit for the associated offense. All of these resolutions will be completed by the designated law clerk assigned to the case.
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