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    "content": "<h1>Business Advising Year in Review 2018-2019</h1>\r\n<h4>The 2018-2019 academic year was another successful one in our growing Business Advising Program. This year, seven students graduated with the Business Advising Certificate, making our program as popular with the students as the Law and Government Institute!</h4>\r\n<p><strong>Jump to:</strong> <a href=\"ipl://644//W10=////Y29ubmVjdA==\">Connect with Us</a></p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<h3>Director's Message</h3>\r\n<p><img src=\"irl://2032//\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right;\" width=\"200\" />Our fall CLE program addressed artificial intelligence, an issue of critical importance for all lawyers. Warren Agin, senior consultant and director of professional development at LexPredict, LLC, presented <em>Artificial Intelligence and Modern Legal Practice: A Vision of Law in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century </em>on October 24. Warren met with a group of students earlier that day to discuss how his practice has evolved with emerging technologies. We thank Members 1<sup>st</sup> Federal Credit Union and Eckert Seamans Attorneys at Law for their generous sponsorship of the event.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img src=\"irl://2034//\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: left;\" width=\"225\" /><img src=\"irl://2033//\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: left;\" width=\"250\" />Our major spring event was the MidPenn Invitational Transaction Competition. This year, we hosted two teams from Penn State-Dickinson Law School, who negotiated an asset purchase transaction with two of our own teams. We thank MidPenn Bank for its long-standing support of transactional training for our students and for its sponsorship of the competition.</p>\r\n<p>Throughout the year we hosted Dine and Learn events with the Career Development Office so that our Business Advising students could learn more about different areas of business law practice. Our speakers included D. Matthew Mandrell, Senior VP and Managing Director at Fulton Financial, Christina Fletcher, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Penske Truck Leasing, and Thea Paolini, Associate Attorney at Nauman, Smith, Shissler &amp; Hall, LLP.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"irl://2031//\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"225\" />We are delighted to announce that rising third-year student Waleisha Moat has been awarded an American Bar Association Business Law Section Diversity Clerkship. Waleisha was one of only four law students chosen for this honor, and she will be working this summer for Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights of the Delaware Chancery Court. Waleisha is the second Widener Law Commonwealth student to be chosen by the ABA Business Law Section for this honor.</p>\r\n<p>As you know, our goal is to prepare students to be client-ready attorneys who have a strong foundation in topics essential to business law practice and a strong professional identity as business lawyers. We are pleased to be launching the Business Advising Student Professional Development Fund. Thanks to a generous donation from Mette, Evans, and Woodside, we will be able to provide financial support to students who wish to attend professional conferences in the business law field.</p>\r\n<p>We could not do all of these wonderful things without the support of our alumni and friends. If you are interested in helping us train client-ready business lawyers, there is a lot you can do. We have an active advisory board, and we are always looking for new members. We love to host speakers to discuss their practice areas with our students. We are looking to grow our Student Professional Development Fund, and your financial <a href=\"https://commonwealthlawalumni.widener.edu/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donations</a> will allow us to do so. Stay in touch!</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"irl://1255//\" alt=\" Professor Juliet Moringiello\" style=\"float: left;\" width=\"150\" /><strong><a href=\"ipl://35//WyIyMiJd////\">Juliet Moringiello</a></strong><br />Director, <a href=\"ipl://403//W10=////\">Business Advising Program</a><br />Commonwealth Professor of Business Law<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href=\"mailto:jmmoringiello@widener.edu\">jmmoringiello@widener.edu</a><br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 717.541.3917<br /><strong>Twitter: </strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/profjuliet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ProfJuliet</a></p>\r\n<h5>&nbsp;</h5>\r\n<h5>&nbsp;</h5>",
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