Category: Alumni News
October 2015
News Feinberg Lectures on Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Kenneth Feinberg addressed the Law School about mediation and alternative dispute resolution. In his talk, he discussed some of the many cases he has administered, describing them as logistically challenging and emotionally taxing. Feinberg has managed claims arising from some of the nation’s…
September 2015
Alabama State Bar Installs Lee Copeland As 140th President The Alabama State Bar recently installed Montgomery attorney Lee H. Copeland (’82) as its 140th president, while J. Cole Portis (’90) was installed as the bar’s president-elect. He will serve one year before assuming the presidency in 2016. UA-ANU Summer School Program Celebrates Its 15th Year…
August 2015
News Law School Welcomes Class of 2018 Dean Mark E. Brandon welcomed an impressive Class of 2018 during First-Year Orientation. The Class of 2018 has 154 students and was drawn from a pool of nearly 1,600 applicants. Eighty-four percent of those applicants came from outside the state of Alabama. Members of the Class of 2018…
May 2015
Crosswhite Delivers Commencement Address, Law School Confers 152 Degrees Alabama Power Company CEO Mark Crosswhite, ’87, challenged Law School degree candidates to work in Alabama, take advantage of opportunities and enjoy the legal profession. Degree candidates were hooded by Kimberly Boone, Director of Legal Writing Program; Bryan Fair, Thomas E. Skinner Professor of Law; and…
April 2015
Students Visit Grand Cayman Professor Julie A. Hill and 19 Law School students recently traveled to Grand Cayman as part of the offshore financial transactions course. Students met with more than a dozen attorneys, accountants, bankers, regulators and finance professionals. Cayman has worked to move from a jurisdiction known primarily for financial secrecy to a…
March 2015
Moot Court Team Advances To Finals The team of Stanley Blackmon, Caitlin Looney and Chelsea Phillips will advance to the ABA Moot Court national finals in Chicago in April. The team of Lauren Breland, Ben Hardison and Drew Hudson narrowly lost the final, under a tie-breaker. Stanley won an oral advocacy award, and Lauren, Drew…
February 2015
Bounds Law Library Launches Special Collections Blog The Bounds Law Library is sharing information about books, manuscripts, and artifacts on its new blog, Litera Scripta. Bounds preserves and catalogs documents and objects, with an eye to the evolution of common law. Its primary focus is on legal history in Alabama; but it is also interested…
January 2015
Law School Announces Alabama Law Review’s Voting Rights Act Symposium The University of Alabama School of Law is pleased to announce the presenters for the Alabama Law Review’s Voting Rights Act Symposium. Join us as the nation’s foremost experts on the Voting Rights Act commemorate the 50th Anniversary of this historic enactment. The symposium is…
December 2014
Leadership Forum Selects Assistant Dean McLaughlin and Alumni As Members Glory McLaughlin, ’05, Assistant Dean for Public Interest, along with several Law School alumni (See Class Notes) were among the 30 attorneys selected as members of the 2015 Leadership Forum Class 11, the Alabama State Bar recently announced. Participants will be trained in leadership, ethics,…
November 2014
News BBL Invites Alumni, Law Students To Take Stress TestAs part of the program, “The Business of Being a Lawyer,” Professor Pam Pierson and Jacklyn Nagle, a UA psychology doctoral candidate (2015), are conducting a study on how lawyers manage stress and helpful strategies for doing so.Members of the Alabama State Bar are invited to…