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Lee Copeland: Serving the State
Alabama State Bar President Lee Copeland (’82) welcomed the bar’s newest members in October and said they were joining what he considers the “best profession in the world.” “One of their duties is to keep it that way,” Copeland said, “and they can do that by having a high degree of professionalism.” Copeland brings that…
Legal Writing Director Receives Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award
Kimberly K. Boone, Director of the Legal Writing Program and Legal Writing Lecturer in UA’s School of Law, received the University’s highest honor for excellence in teaching – the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award – from The University of Alabama National Alumni Association. Boone was honored because she has built the most rigorous and effective…
Morris Dees Receives Courageous Advocacy Award
The American Board of Trial Advocates presented its Courageous Advocacy Award to Morris Dees, founder and chief trial attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, at the organization’s National Board of Directors Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. The organization presents the award to a judge or advocate anywhere in the world who has demonstrated exemplary…
Law School Ranks in Top 10 as “Best Value” for Fifth Consecutive Year
The University of Alabama School of Law is ranked 5th among the nation’s “Best Value Law Schools,” according to The National Jurist magazine’s rankings for 2015. This is the ninth time since 2004 The National Jurist magazine has published the list, and it is the fifth consecutive year the Law School has been ranked among the…
Law School Selects Millard Fuller as 2015 Profile in Service
The University of Alabama School of Law Profiles in Service Series Millard Dean Fuller Millard Fuller, a 1960 graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law, co-founded one of the most well-known and successful nonprofit Christian organizations in the world, Habitat for Humanity International. Fuller, who received his undergraduate degree from Auburn University, began…
Feinberg Lectures on Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Kenneth Feinberg addressed the Law School about mediation and alternative dispute resolution, emphasizing the kinds of cases he administers fall into two categories and often take an unseen emotional toll. Feinberg has managed claims arising from the nation’s “darkest moments” and posing the problem of determining what a life is worth, said…
Bradley Hargett: Serving the State
Bradley C. Hargett (’16) was surprised when he learned in June that he had won the Alabama State Bar’s Pro Bono Law Student Award. “I had no idea I had been nominated and it was very exciting to know that the state bar recognizes the efforts of law students and attorneys in pro bono service,”…
Professor Delgado Named Faculty Fellow for Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study
Professor Richard Delgado has been selected as a faculty fellow for the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study for the 2015-2016 academic year. Each faculty fellow will partner with one or more of the departments offering graduate degrees housed in Texas A&M’s 16 colleges or schools, or the Texas A&M Health Science Center. Delgado, the…
Expert to Lecture at Law School on Legal Responses to Catastrophes
The University of Alabama School of Law will host Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Kenneth Feinberg at noon Tuesday, Sept. 29, in the Bedsole Moot Courtroom 140. The lecture is free and open to the public. Feinberg is an expert in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. He has handled financial claims for major crises and disasters. He…
Legal Scholars to Visit and Discuss Law’s Rhetorical Life
Legal scholars will visit The University of Alabama School of Law and discuss law’s rhetorical life Sept. 18 during a symposium. The Rhetorical Process and Legal Judgments Symposium begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Bedsole Moot Courtroom, Room 140. Legal scholars will investigate how questions of rhetoric shape the development of legal and judicial decisions,…