by David Trevaskis | Jul 24, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
The late Judge Clifford Scott Green, LEAP's early champion, talks to Philadelphia students (can anyone identify the school) as then LEAP Executive Director Beth Farnbach looks on.
by David Trevaskis | Jul 24, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
Here are materials and an article describing a project conducted by former LEAP trainer and North Allegheny social studies teacher George Sagan in which his students worked to get legislation passed banning the release of latex balloons filled with helium because the...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 24, 2024 | LEAP, Mock Trial
Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (2nd from left in blue) with the CEO and a board member from Campaign for Working Families, joined by former LEAP Director Roberta West at the far right. What does this summer 2024 picture have to do with mock trial—Congresswoman Scanlon...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 20, 2024 | LEAP, Mock Trial
The highly successful Pleasant Valley High School team of the 1980s which went to the statewide high school mock trial finals three consecutive years. The team went undefeated through the finals but finished third due to the scoring system used at the time.
by David Trevaskis | Jul 7, 2024 | LEAP, Training
The North Allegheny educators George and Debbie Sagan bookend then Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at the Supreme Court Institute run by Street Law, a national partner of LEAP, sometime in the mid-1990s. The program continues today, having brought more than 1500 hundred...
by David Trevaskis | Jun 27, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP Articles
LEAP kicked off its 50th anniversary celebration with a lunch on Thursday, June 20, 2024, at the Inn at Swarthmore, a location picked to honor John S. Bradway, the creator of clinical law school clinics, who grew up there in the early part of the 20th century. Two of...
