Year: 2012

• Alabama Law Earns High Honors at the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition

  Ambria Lankford (’12) and India Williams (’12) recently earned an impressive second place finish in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition for the Southern Region. This year, twenty-two teams participated, making this strong overall team performance all the more impressive. “Indeed, I have never seen better oral advocacy,” said Carodine. “Working with a challenging moot…

• Seven Alabama Law Graduates Named “Top 40 Under 40”

  Congratulations to the following individuals, named to the Birmingham Business Journal’s “Top 40 Under 40”: Jonathan Geisen (’00), shareholder with Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC. Kimberly Geisler (’00), shareholder with Scott Dukes & Geisler, P.C. Ben Goldman (‘01), partner with Hand Arendall LLC V.J. Graffeo (’03), partner with Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker…

• Grisham’s The Confession Named Inaugural Winner

  John Grisham Wins 2011 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction John Grisham Talks to ABA Journal about his 2011 Harper Lee Prize Win To honor the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, The University of Alabama School of Law and the American Bar Association Journal partnered to create The Harper Lee…