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The Law Place offers a $2,500 Law School Scholarship award to honor the legal heroes who inspire students to become the next generation of justice fighters. For Wake Forest University’s Kaitlyn Piechnik, that idol is Malvina Shanklin Harlan. In an era when societal expectations confined women to specific roles, progressive individuals like Malvina paved the …