Alumni
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VLS students join pro bono legal team to help low-income victims of massive fraud scheme
Students support Social Security Disability Appeals of low-income Kentuckians whose benefits were revoked after their lawyer was convicted of fraud. Read MoreJan. 11, 2019
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Adrienne Kittos ’09 honored as Tennessee Bar Association’s Ashley Wiltshire Public Service Attorney of the Year
Kittos was legal director of Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors, which provides low-cost legal services to immigrants, for nine years. Read MoreJan. 10, 2019
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Angie Bergman ’13 honored as Tennessee Bar Association’s Harris Gilbert Pro Bono Volunteer of the Year
Bergman is an associate with Bass Berry & Sims in Nashville. She was honored for her pro bono representation of a client accused of murder. Read MoreJan. 10, 2019
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Cat Moon ’98 featured in online interview about new PoLI Institute at VLS
Moon was interviewed by Mary Juetten for a Forbes online Entrepreneurs interview about her new role as director of the PoLI Institute, which provides immersion courses for practicing attorneys and other legal professionals as an extension of the law school's Program on Law and Innovation. Read MoreJan. 8, 2019
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Allen Gates ’72 installed as president of the American College of Environmental Lawyers
Gates, who is a partner at Mitchell Williams in Little Rock, Arkansas, is one of four attorneys in Arkansas admitted to membership in thenational environmental law organization. He will serve a one-year term. Read MoreDec. 3, 2018
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Michael Vandenbergh elected fellow in the American College of Environmental Lawyers
Vandenbergh directs Vanderbilt University’s interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Network and co-directs the Energy, Environment and Land Use Program at VLS. Read MoreDec. 3, 2018
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VLS ranked among top 10 U.S. law schools by Princeton Review in three categories
VLS ranked second for Best Quality of Life, ninth for Best Professors, and eighth for Greatest Resources for Women in Princeton Review’s 2019 rankings, which list the top 10 law schools in 12 categories relevant to prospective students. Read MoreNov. 27, 2018
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George Barrett Distinguished Practitioner in Residence Jameel Jaffer addresses the impact of social media companies on free speech
Jaffer directs the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. He previously oversaw the ACLU’s work in the areas of free speech, privacy, technology, national security and international human rights. Read MoreNov. 12, 2018
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Claudia Jack ’83, former Maury Country public defender, dies at 75
Jack served as Maury County's public defender for 20 years. She is remembered as "compassionate, humble and possing a willingness to drop everything it meant helping somebody else in need." Read MoreNov. 12, 2018
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Gautam Hans launches First Amendment Clinic at VLS
Funded through a grant from The Stanton Foundation, the clinic will give students opportunities to development and use legal strategies while working on cases addressing First Amendment rights. Read MoreNov. 7, 2018