{"id":39493,"date":"2014-06-23T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=39493"},"modified":"2014-06-23T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T18:00:20","slug":"summer-pre-law-program-participants-meet-attorney-mentors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/summer-pre-law-program-participants-meet-attorney-mentors\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Pre-law Program participants meet attorney-mentors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Judiciary\u2019s Summer Pre-law Program participants met with their attorney-mentors on June 21, 2014, before officially starting classes today. Thirteen participants will undertake an intense, three-week study of law: Anthony H. Aguon, Carmen V. Borja, Tina R. Cruz, Sahjahan T. Hossain, Savana V. Manglona, Jaclyn T. Mendiola, Maisie Lynn SN. Mesngon, Zalbert C. Palma, Susan S. Pascual, Gretchen A. Smith, Christopher A. Tenorio, Angelina T. Tretnoff, and Dan Ryan B. Tumaquip. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to teaching courses in Contracts and Property, Emeritus Professor Robert J. Desiderio of the University of New Mexico School of Law and Professor Rose Cuison-Villazor of the University of California at Davis School of Law will present a series of free lectures, open to the public, as part of The Law in the Community Lecture Series. <\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39493 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/summer-pre-law-program-participants-meet-attorney-mentors\/img_8790\/'>IMG_8790<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39500'>\n\t\t\t\tSummer Pre-Law Program 2014 participants and attorney mentors gather for orientation prior to the commencement of classes on Monday June 23, 2014 (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/summer-pre-law-program-participants-meet-attorney-mentors\/img_8768\/'>IMG_8768<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39494'>\n\t\t\t\tFrom left to right: Summer Pre-Law Program 2014 attorney mentor Victorino Torres, program participants Jaclyn T. Mendiola and Gin Decker with attorney mentor Bobbi Cepeda (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/summer-pre-law-program-participants-meet-attorney-mentors\/img_8771\/'>IMG_8771<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39496'>\n\t\t\t\tSummer Pre-Law Program participants, from left to right, Carmen V. Borja, Savana V. Manglona and attorney mentor Deborah Fisher (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/summer-pre-law-program-participants-meet-attorney-mentors\/img_8775\/'>IMG_8775<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39497'>\n\t\t\t\tSummer Pre-law program participant Tina R. Cruz, left, and attorney mentor Jeanne Rayphand (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/summer-pre-law-program-participants-meet-attorney-mentors\/img_8778\/'>IMG_8778<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39498'>\n\t\t\t\tAttorney mentor Bruce Mailman speaks to the Summer Pre-Law Program 2014 participants at the orientation assembly Saturday June 21, 2014. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/summer-pre-law-program-participants-meet-attorney-mentors\/img_8787\/'>IMG_8787<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39499'>\n\t\t\t\tSummer Pre-Law Program participants, from left to right, Sahjahan T. Hossain, Anthony H. Aguon and Zalbert C. Palma, (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Law in the Community Lecture Series will begin on June 26 at 6pm at the American Memorial Park, with Villazor\u2019s lecture on \u201cImmigration Reform and NMI Impact.\u201d On July 1, Desiderio will present \u201cRevisiting the Covenant: Military Interest in the NMI\u201d at 6pm at the American Memorial Park. On July 8, Villazor will discuss \u201cArticle 12 Referendum: Blood Quantum and Other Constitutional Issues\u201d at 6pm at the American Memorial Park. To conclude the series, on July 10, Desiderio will present on \u201cLegal Education and the Minority Student\u201d at the Guma Hustisia\u2019s Law Library at 12pm. Attorneys may receive one continuing legal education credit for each lecture attended.<\/p>\n<p>The program is made possible by the Northern Marianas Humanities Council, a nonprofit corporation funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities; Northern Marianas Judiciary Historical Society; Bridge Capital, LLC; CNMI Bar Association; Delta Air Lines; Garment Residual Charitable Fund; Hertz Rent A Car; JET Realty and Development; Saipan Shipping Co.; Saipan Stevedore Co., Inc.; and Triple J Star Wholesale Foods. <em>(NMI Judiciary)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Judiciary\u2019s Summer Pre-law Program participants met with their attorney-mentors on June 21, 2014, before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":39494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[268,37,778],"class_list":["post-39493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-american-memorial-park","tag-education-2","tag-summer-pre-law-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}