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...
by David Trevaskis | Jun 26, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
Legal Intelligencer from February 8, 1990 shows on page two a picture of Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Frederica Massiah-Jackson and the late Family Court Senior Judge Nicholas Cipriani, both LEAP Board members at the time, speaking with Executive Director Beth...
by David Trevaskis | Jun 25, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
The first Temple document is the LEAP brochure from 1990. The second one shows one of the many newsletters LEAP published, this one from the fall of 1993. Download (PDF, 86KB) Download (PDF,...
by David Trevaskis | Jun 25, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
The lesson on good and evil describes rolling out Teens, Crime and the Community in the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District (circa 1990). Download (PDF,...
