Category: Alumni News
October 2022
News DC Externship Program Celebrates 10 Years In 2012, Mike House (’71) and Ed Rogers (’84) had a goal of creating an externship program to introduce Alabama Law students to career opportunities in Washington DC. Ten years later, through the leadership and support of many dedicated alumni, Alabama Law’s DC Externship Program has placed more…
September 2022
News Preserving Class Composites: A Window to Our Past In 2019, David (’00) and Laura Drinkard Hodge (’00) committed $30,000 to the Law School Foundation to create the Class Composite Preservation Project Fund. The goal of this fund is to digitize and preserve composite photos from graduating classes throughout the years, making them accessible for…
August 2022
News Alabama Law Welcomes the Class of 2025 As a new school year begins, Alabama Law is proud to welcome the Class of 2025. This year’s new incoming group consists of 149 students-drawn from a competitive pool of over 1,700 applicants. Read more about the new 1L Class online. Nominations Open for Alabama Alumni Awards…
April – May 2022
News Alabama Law Presents Civil Rights Pioneer Fred David Gray with Honorary Degree The University of Alabama presented civil rights pioneer and attorney Fred David Gray with an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree during the School of Law’s Commencement Ceremony. As one of the most prolific civil rights lawyers in the history of Alabama and…
March 2022
News Alabama Law Ranked Top 25 By U.S. News & World Report #1 For Lowest Average Graduate Debt-Load Among Top 25 Public Institutions The University of Alabama School of Law ranked 25th among the nation’s top law schools-ninth among publicly supported institutions-according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Law School Rankings” for 2023….
February 2022
News Alabama Law Names 2022 Alumni Award Honorees On February 11, the School of Law hosted the annual Alabama Law Alumni Society Banquet at the Haven in Birmingham. Six distinguished alumni, who have made significant contributions to the legal community and the School of Law, were honored this year. Due to the pandemic, this was…
January 2022
News Program in Constitutional Studies Hosts Free Speech & Civic Discourse Panel On January 18, the Alabama Law Program in Constitutional Studies hosted a Free Speech & Civic Discourse panel featuring free speech experts Nadine Strossen—professor emerita at New York Law School and former president of the ACLU, and Keith Whittington—professor of politics at Princeton University. The…
December 2021
News Three Alabama Law Students Donate Kidneys Alabama Law 3Ls Angelica Mamani, Katrina Smith, and Ryne Smith each donated a kidney to save the lives of three persons they previously didn’t know. Every year across the nation, only 200 of all kidney donations come from people who do not know the recipient. We are honored…
November 2021
News Alabama Law Ranks Top 10 in Federal Clerkships Data from the most recent ABA Employment Report show that the Alabama Law Class of 2020 ranks 10th in the nation for federal clerkship placements. A few students from this class shared their clerkship experiences with us, which you can read about here. The annual Alabama…
October 2021
News Alabama Law Alumna Earns Supreme Court Clerkship with Justice Thomas Caroline Stephens Milner (’18) has been selected to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during a soon-to-be determined term. Milner is the first Alabama Law graduate to earn a SCOTUS clerkship since Charles Cooper, founding member and the chairman of Cooper & Kirk…