by David Trevaskis | Apr 10, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP Articles
Mock trial has been a piece of LEAP since even before the first Philadelphia citywide competition—circa 1981. Sometimes even the New York Times paid attention! Do you see the future lawyers and judges featured here? Download (PDF,...
by David Trevaskis | Apr 10, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP Articles
LEAP always did interesting introductory activities and Polaroid made a ton of money off the pictures that seemed to always be taken as part of the fun. These two program sheets from the 1990s show then law students Matt Weintraub and Gino Campbell, now newly elected...
by David Trevaskis | Apr 10, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP Articles
Sharon Browning, one of the first three law students at Temple-LEAP (the other two were Debbie Kroll, the now retired champion of elder law who would run the Elder Law Project at the Temple University School of Law for nearly 40 years, and Gwen Bright, a judge on...
by David Trevaskis | Mar 31, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP Articles
News article discusses the 1998 Carver High School's run through the Philadelphia competition to runner-up at states that year. If you know the status of any of the students mentioned in the article, please share with us. Download (PDF, 709KB) The 1989 picture of...
by David Trevaskis | Mar 24, 2024 | LEAP
Gregg Werkheiser, a student on that PV team, with his former coaches and teachers, Bob Catina (left) and the late Eric Schneider (right) at event Werkheiser later organized at William and Mary. As you see from the linked reference, students influenced by LEAP programs...
by David Trevaskis | Mar 24, 2024 | LEAP
The team from Pleasant Valley School District attending the first LEAP statewide leadership conference at the old Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in the fall of 1985.
