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Best Brief Award Winners Eighteen second-year students received the Best Brief Award for the Litigation Program. The award is given to students whose outstanding summary judgment briefs show clear and succinct writing, along with the appropriate use of legal authority and research. The students are Mark Bryce (J.D. ’14), Jason Cramer (J.D. ’15), Todd Dupree… Read more »

Commencement: Choose to Do Hard Things May 20, 2013 “I want you to choose to do hard things,” imploring the Class of 2013 to not turn away from those who need lawyers most, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed asked the 174 graduates to “have the will to act.” Reed was the keynote speaker at the 29th… Read more »

Alexis Person: My PILA Scholarship First Person: Summer with Voices for Georgia’s Children This summer I had the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children when I interned with Voices for Georgia’s Children, a nonprofit child policy and advocacy organization.  I was eager to work for an organization that focuses on improving… Read more »

Deliberation After Dark Just before the trial began of a Utah doctor accused of drugging and drowning his wife, Georgia State Law students and a professor were dissecting his case in a mock jury on CNN’s HLN network program “HLN After Dark.” Combing through details and snippets of evidence presented each episode, hosts Vinnie Politan… Read more »

Attorneys Share Wellness Tips ATLANTA – Practicing attorneys and personal development coaches, Plamen Russev (J.D. ’03) and Jonathan Ware, return Thursday, Feb. 6, to help students master strategies to reduce stress and promote success in law school. They will meet with students to discuss practical changes students have made since the attorneys’ initial visit during… Read more »

Justice Stevens: Data Collection ‘Price We Pay’ Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens weighed in on the government’s storing of telephone metadata, calling it the price society pays, during the 53rd Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture at Georgia State University College of Law on April 16. Justice Stevens, who retired in 2010, says… Read more »

Eighteen second-year students received the Best Brief Award for the Litigation Program. The award is given to students whose outstanding summary judgment briefs show clear and succinct writing, along with the appropriate use of legal authority and research. The students are Mark Bryce (J.D. ’14), Jason Cramer (J.D. ’15), Todd Dupree (J.D. ’14), Kyle Evans… Read more »

31 Years of Generosity “Before Google, there was Jim, and I’d venture to say his signal to noise ratio is better,” said Patrick Wiseman, professor of law, in tribute to James L. Bross, retiring professor of law and founding faculty member of the college. “He’s a font of information, much of it useful,” Wiseman said… Read more »

Teaching Innovation Grants Enrich Curriculum This fall, three professors, Jessica Gabel, Corneill Stephens and Leslie Wolf, will teach new or enriched courses designed to enhance students applied or experiential learning. The three professors received three $11,000 teaching innovation grants this summer to design or revise their courses as part of a pilot program. Faculty submitted… Read more »

Alumnus Writes Trial Problems In his first year at Georgia State University College of Law, Randy Rich (J.D. ’92) made the mock trial team as a witness. He continued as an attorney during his second year and was elected president of the Student Trial Lawyers Association in his third. Twenty-one years later, the National Institute… Read more »