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…
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…
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…
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…
Professor Richard Delgado was one of 16 constitutional law professors who helped Time magazine identify the best and worst Supreme Court decisions since 1960. Time surveyed more than 50 legal scholars and received 34 responses. Decisions that championed civil and individual liberties or made democracy more participatory were repeatedly praised, while professors were more critical…
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…
Professor Montre Carodine recently told Al.com it’s “an unfortunate development” that Alabama legislators are moving forward with a plan to divert $950 million of a federal settlement for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to the state’s General Fund. Alabama lawmakers have not specified how they plan to spend the money that will go into the General…
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…
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 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,”…