Alumni
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Patent law expert Sean Seymore serves as faculty head of Vanderbilt University’s residential Warren College
Seymore is the New York Alumni Chancellor's Professor of Law and holds a secondary appointment in the Chemistry Department. He urges students to "take advantage of everything Vanderbilt has to offer!" Read MoreSep. 2, 2020
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Bill Hagerty ’84 wins Tennessee Senate primary
Hagerty is running for the Senate seat vacated by Sen. Lamar Alexander. Before running for Senate, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan. Read MoreAug. 25, 2020
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Claudia Bonnyman ’74: How my great-grandmother’s bravery helped secure a woman’s right to vote
Read an essay adapted from a speech Chancellor Bonnyman delivered at an event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women suffrage. Bonnyman served for 15 years as a chancellor for the Davidson County Chancery Court. Before her appointment to the bench in 2003, she served as the chancery court clerk and master starting in 1989. She became the founding president of the Lawyers Association for Women in 1981. Read MoreAug. 21, 2020
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Should conservatives embrace class actions? A Point/Counterpoint Debate in Judicature between Brian Fitzpatrick and John Beisner
Beisner, leader of Skadden's Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation group, and Fitzpatrick, who studies complex litigation, discuss the thesis of Fitzpatrick's book "The Conservative Case for Class Actions" in a Q&A published in Judicature, a journal that focuses on the practice of judging and publishes research that aims to improve the administration of justice. Read MoreAug. 21, 2020
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Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic wins case for Tennesseans for Sensible Election Laws
Students in the clinic, directed by Gautam Hans, worked with Daniel Horwitz ’13 to defend a nonprofit group’s satirical mailer criticizing a Tennessee state representative. Read MoreAug. 10, 2020
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Paul Gilbert ’91 named general counsel and corporate secretary of Rite Aid
Gilbert's career focusing on health care law has included private practice with Epstein Becker Green and Waller and service as hieve legal and corporate governance officer at LifePoint Health. Read MoreAug. 5, 2020
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Taylor Owings ’13 named acting chief of staff of U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division
Owings joined the Justice Department as counsel to the assistant attorney general in February 2018. She had previously practiced antitrust law in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Read MoreJul. 28, 2020
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Russ Overby ’74 retires from distinguished career of public service at Legal Aid Society and Tennessee Justice Center
Overby spent his legal career at the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, which he joined in 1974, except for a stint as a welfare reform lawyer at the Tennessee Justice Center from 1997 to 2005. Most recently, he was lead attorney at the firm's Health, Income and Education Practice Group. Read MoreJul. 16, 2020
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Blumstein and Yadav appointed to Tennessee Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
James F. Blumstein, a noted expert in constitutional law and health law and policy, and finincial regulatory expert Yesha Yadav will serve four-year terms on the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the US. Commission on Civil Rights. Read MoreJul. 14, 2020
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Immigration Practice Clinic students work pro bono to support communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19
Cloe Anderson ’21, Grace Ko ’21 and Sarah Dvorak ’22 help draft resolution passed by the Nashville Metropolitan Council drawing attention to increased harassment and discrimination directed at Asian immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read MoreJul. 8, 2020