Alumni
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Adrielle Conner ’20 receives Bradley Arant Boult Cummings diversity scholarship
Rising 2L Adrielle L. Conner was awarded Bradley Arant Boult Cummings’ annual diversity scholarship as part of the firm’s ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. Conner is working as a law clerk at Bradley’s Nashville office this summer. A native of Lakeland, Florida, she earned her… Read MoreJul. 2, 2018
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Read Law.com’s June 28 interview with Geoffrey Drake ’05
Drake is a partner at King & Spalding in Atlanta, where he focuses on product liability litigation. Read MoreJul. 2, 2018
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Read “Faces of Nashville” interview with Deputy Public Defender Aisha McWeay ’09
McWeay joined the Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender's Office in 2009 after earning her Vanderbilt J.D. She was named General Sessions Division Chief in 2014 and Dputy Public Defender in 2017. Read MoreJun. 26, 2018
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Remembering Milton Rice ’49: A Tennessean column by Ed Cole
A friend of the late Milton Rice '49 writes about his legal of "patriotism, public service and neighborliness." Rice died Jan. 1 at age 97. Read MoreJun. 22, 2018
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Listen to three VLS students discuss immigration law in “Life of the Law” podcast
Rising 2L Adrielle L. Conner was awarded Bradley Arant Boult Cummings’ annual diversity scholarship as part of the firm’s ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. Conner is working as a law clerk at Bradley’s Nashville office this summer. A native of Lakeland, Florida, she earned her… Read MoreJun. 8, 2018
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To Clerk or Not to Clerk: Read VLS Career Services Director Nick Alexiou’s column in Above the Law
Alexiou is director of LL.M. and alumni advising and associate director of Career Services at Vanderbilt Law School. Read MoreJun. 8, 2018
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Read ABA Landslide article, “Investment Treaties and Intellectual Property,” on two cases affecting international intellectual property rights by Daniel Gervais and Jared Doster ’17
Philip Morris v. Uruguay and Eli Lilly v. Canada are two international investor-state cases that may reveal an emerging trend in international investment law regarding investors' intellectual property (IP) rights. Read MoreMay. 31, 2018
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Brocton Lockwood ’69 dead at 74
Lockwood assisted in a Department of Justice investigation that exposed judicial corruption in Cook County, Illinois, in the late 1970s. Read MoreMay. 25, 2018
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Justice Connie Clark ’79 (BA’71) to receive Tennessee Bar Association’s Drowota Award
The TBA's highest award, named in honor of former Tennessee Chief Justice Frank Drowota '65 (BA'60), recognizes career services to the judiciary. Read MoreMay. 23, 2018
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Kevin Coker and Sean Dowling named 2018 Gideon’s Promise Fellows
Coker will work at the Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender’s Office and Dowling for the Shelby County Defenders. Read MoreMay. 17, 2018