Posts Categorized: News

Center for Law, Health & Society | News and Events | Center News | 2013 Archive | Graduate Spotlight: Always Something New Graduate Spotlight: Always Something New DECEMBER 9, 2013 ATLANTA – Charlotte Combre (J.D. ’97), partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, focuses her practice on the bread and butter of health law: regulatory… Read more »

First Place for Moot Court After three days of competition, 64 teams and eight rounds, Georgia State University College of Law’s Bankruptcy Moot Court team took first place at the national Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition in New York on March 3. Team members Fareed Kaisani (J.D. /M.B.A. ’14), Clay Roberts (J.D. ’14) and Paul… Read more »

Special Events Ben F. Johnson Public Service Award   The Ben F. Johnson Jr. Public Service Award is named for the College of Law’s founding Dean, Ben F. Johnson. The award is presented annually to a Georgia attorney whose career accomplishments reflect the high tradition of selfless public service that Dean Johnson exemplified throughout his life and work…. Read more »

Center for Law, Health & Society | News and Events | Center News | 2013 Archive | Spotlight: Keeping a Hand in Health Law Spotlight: Keeping a Hand in Health Law May 14, 2013 ATLANTA – Cynthia Honssinger Coffman (JD ’91), a member of the sixth graduating class of the College of Law, is the… Read more »

Transforming the Writing Program The Georgia State University College of Law introduces this fall Lawyering: Foundations, an innovative first-year writing program that will emphasize more practice-based assignments and greater faculty feedback. The program spans two semesters and will feature smaller sections and more assignments — legal memoranda, trial and appellate briefs, business emails, client letters,… Read more »

Nominate an Exceptional Lawyer ATLANTA – Georgia State University College of Law is accepting nominations for the 2014 Ben F. Johnson Jr. Public Service Award to honor a Georgia attorney who has selflessly committed to public service in the tradition of the college’s founding dean. “Ben F. Johnson Jr. displayed an unwavering commitment to public… Read more »

Center for Law, Health & Society | News and Events | Center News | 2013 Archive | Recent Graduate Awarded Law and Government Fellowship Recent Graduate Awarded Law and Government Fellowship DECEMBER 9, 2013 ATLANTA – American University Washington College of Law has selected Samuel Park (J.D. ’13) as an LL.M. fellow in law and… Read more »

Legislature Recognizes 10 Years of Health Law The Georgia House of Representatives recognized Georgia State University College of Law and its Health Law Partnership (HeLP) at the state capitol on Feb. 24 with a resolution and a bill recognizing medical-legal partnerships. During the session, House Resolution 1549 was read on the floor honoring Georgia State… Read more »

Todres appointed to IOM Committee February 3, 2012   ATLANTA – Georgia State University College of Law Professor Jonathan Todres has been appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s Study Committee on Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States. The Committee will examine the scope and severity of the problem, including… Read more »

Tax Clinic celebrates 20th anniversary March 23, 2012 ATLANTA – Georgia State University College of Law’s Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a gala to be held Thursday, March 29, at the Ansley Golf Club, 196 Montgomery Ferry Drive N.E., in Atlanta. Since 1992, the Tax Clinic has provided federal tax controversy… Read more »