by David Trevaskis | Jun 12, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
Jim Klyap, one of the original teachers in the LEAP statewide educational network, sent this message: [I} retired after 38 years at Purchase Line-I have subbed since at a school closer to me called Penns Manor-In total I have 58 years in Education now! Just got a knee...
by David Trevaskis | Jun 6, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
Joe Price, today a highly respected Lackawanna County lawyer and champion of justice supporting civil legal aid across the Commonwealth, was just a young law student getting his first taste of life in north central Philadelphia in the mid-1970s when he was working at...
by David Trevaskis | May 18, 2024 | LEAP, Mock Trial
LEAP has always championed mock trial in Philadelphia, with Central High School winning the first citywide competition among a handful of schools (circa 1981). The mock trial program was the brainchild of then LEAP Executive Director Beth Farnbach. By 1984, Beth was...
by David Trevaskis | Apr 10, 2024 | LEAP, Mock Trial
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 in Action
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 in Action
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...
