Alumni
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Tax expert Beverly Moran testified at Dec. 8 House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee hearing on “The Pandora Papers and Hidden Wealth”
Moran is a professor emerita whose work focuses on federal income taxation, including individuals, partnerships, tax-exempt organizations and corporate. The Dec. 8 hearing can be viewed via webcast accessible at the Ways and Means Committee's webiste Read MoreDec. 7, 2021
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Sasha Beatty, Daniel Metzger and Marian Mikhail, all Class of 2017, to serve as public interest advisors
Beatty, Metzger and Mikhail will mentor current VLS students interested in public service practice as prosecutors, environmental advocates or public defenders as part of a new program coordinated by the Public Interest Office. Read MoreNov. 18, 2021
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Former VLS employee Kay Snyder Simmons dead at 72
Kay Simmons was the wife of Keith Simmons '76 and mother of Jennifer Simmons McGugin '05. Read MoreNov. 15, 2021
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🇺🇸 Honoring Our Veterans 🇺🇸
As much as they come to gain a legal education at VLS, our community is fortunate to gain so richly from our veterans' perspectives, experiences, ideas and character. Read MoreNov. 11, 2021
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Newly endowed program fund provides crucial support for the Energy, Environment & Land Use Program
The Sally Shallenberger Brown EELU Program Fund, established by Martin S. Brown Jr.’92, expands the resources available through the program to support courses, clinics, student summer stipends, post-doctoral fellowships, research initiatives and lectures. Read MoreNov. 10, 2021
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Henry Martin ’74 (BA’71) wins 2021 Jack Norman Sr. Award from Nashville Bar Association
Martin has served as the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Tennessee since 1985. The award honors an attorney who focuses on criminal law. Read MoreNov. 4, 2021
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19 members of the Class of 2021 selected for Order of the Coif
Members of the Order of the Coif, a national honorary scholastic society, represent the top 10 percent of their graduating class and are selected by faculty approval. Read MoreOct. 28, 2021
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Susanna Rychlak Allen, Class of 2017, achieves top score on Texas Bar exam
Rychlak Allen is an associate with Yetter Coleman in Houston, where she focuses on complex commercial litigation. Read MoreOct. 21, 2021
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Bass Military Scholar Andrew Hodlin ’24 receives John S. Beasley II Scholarship
Hodlin was an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps who served in Afghanistan and Japan. Before entering VLS this fall, he earned his bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of New Haven and an MBA from the University of Southern California. The Beasley Scholarship honors John S. Beasley II '54 (BA'52), a former Navy officer who served as VLS admissions dean and in the Vanderbilt University administration, and is earmarked for Navy veterans. Read MoreOct. 20, 2021
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22 government and public interest employers participate in new Public Interest Viritual Recruiting Program
Employers participated in one of two ways—through virtual interviews that took place Sept. 20-Oct.1 and through resumé collections in mid-September. 2L students had opportunities to apply and interview for internships in summer 2022, and 3Ls could apply and interview for postgraduate opportunities, including those supported by sponsored fellowships. Read MoreOct. 19, 2021