RALEIGH — Campbell Law is literally going back to its roots by hosting a symbolic 10/40 bike ride featuring a route from “The Creek to The Capital” on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019.
The event is part of the law school’s year-long 10/40 “From the Capital to the Creek” celebration. Throughout 2019, Campbell Law is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the school’s trailblazing move to downtown Raleigh and the heart of North Carolina’s Capital City as well as the 40th anniversary of its first graduating class.
The ride features two different routes: a 40-mile pastoral ride from Buies Creek through Harnett and Wake counties or a 10-mile ride beginning at that follows the Greenway. The 40-mile ride will begin at 8 a.m. at Campbell University’s Convocation Center and the 10-mile ride will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the White Deer Park Nature Center in Garner. Both will end at Campbell Law School with the finish line on Hillsborough Street for photo ops in front of the historic North Carolina Capitol building.
To celebrate the riders and their supporters, there will be true eastern N.C.-style BBQ cooked onsite in the law school parking lot by alumni as well as live bluegrass music by the Songs From The Road Band and a variety of vendors for entertainment. There will be a concurrent Health and Wellness Fair held at the law school as well as the opportunity to have photos taken on the law school’s famous Cobi Conference Bike. The celebration coincides with the annual International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) business conference and festival and all that it has to offer including free shows for the first time at Red Hat Amphitheatre during Wide Open Bluegrass.
The registration fee for either distance is $40 but the number of participants is limited. Riders are encouraged to sign up at bit.ly/1040BikeRide prior to Sept. 10 to ensure they will receive a commemorative 10/40 Bike Ride t-shirt as well as a ticket for the BBQ.
A discount code is available for students, faculty and staff of Campbell Law School.The t-shirt is available for an additional $10 fee for those who register at the discount rate. Don’t want to ride but you want the shirt? Orders for just shirts are also available at $10, You are responsible for picking it up at the event. Click REGISTER and hit “Just the Shirt” for $10.
A big thanks to our generous sponsors:
- Settlement Planning Services LLC
- iHeart Radio
- Safran Law Offices
- Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog
- Second Empire Restaurant and Tavern
- Maxwell Freeman & Bowman, PA
- South State Bank
- The Clark Group/Hodge & Kittrell
- TowneBank
- Batten Lee PLLC
- Brandfuel
- Duncan Parnell
- Metro Design
- Empire Eats
- Carolina Journal
- Raleigh Magazine
- Attorney at Law Magazine
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Contact David Bohm at bohm@campbell.edu.
ABOUT CAMPBELL LAW
Since its founding in 1976, Campbell Law has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion, and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others. Among its accolades, the school has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) as having the nation’s top Professionalism Program and by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation’s best Trial Advocacy Program. Campbell Law boasts more than 4,200 alumni, who make their home in nearly all 50 states and beyond. In 2019, Campbell Law is celebrating 40 years of graduating legal leaders and 10 years of being located in a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of North Carolina’s Capital City.