Law Students to Host Fashion Benefit

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The University of Arkansas School of Law’s Women’s Law Student Association will host the Esquire Attire Fashion Show at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5, at Teatro Scarpino in Fayetteville.

The fashion show will feature local attorneys and School of Law faculty as volunteer models and will benefit the Peace at Home Family Shelter in Fayetteville.

The Peace at Home Family Shelter, formerly known as the Project for Victims of Family Violence, is dedicated to ending family violence and to building healthy families. The shelter offers support, prevention and education to propel this mission. They also offer legal and personal advocacy to more than 1,000 individuals every year. Most of the women who use the shelter are mothers, and, usually, half of the shelter’s beneficiaries are children. Peace at Home strives to reverse the damage of domestic violence, especially on children, through child advocacy and parenting education.

This is the second year the Women’s Law Student Association has hosted the fashion benefit. Membership of the association comprises female law students, who attempt to resolve issues facing women both at law school and in the community while cultivating common professional interests and goals.

The Honorable Richard Taylor, a 1980 School of Law graduate and current bankruptcy judge in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Eastern Arkansas, will emcee the show. Models will include: Kimberly Canova, Canova Law Firm; Andy Cozart, Burke, Olmstead & Cozart; Niki Cung, Kutak Rock; Matt Durrett, Washington County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office; Don Elliott, Elliott & Smith; professor Ann Killenbeck; Jessica Killenbeck; professor Mary Beth Matthews; Chris Mitchell; Dean Cynthia Nance; professor Phillip Norvell; Michele Payne; Rebekah Payne; Jim Rose III; and Paul Thompson, Bassett Law Firm.

Images from last year’s event are available at www.peaceathomeshelter.org/photos/esquire_attire.html.