Alumni
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18 members of the Class of 2017 selected for Order of the Coif
Amanda Rose, professor of law, who is president of the Vanderbilt Law School Chapter of Order of the Coif, has announced that 18 graduates of the Class of 2017 have been selected for membership in the Order of the Coif. Members of this prestigious organization are selected by… Read MoreSep. 15, 2017
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Matt Leggett ’07 named chief counsel of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Leggett had previously served as policy counsel for the Senate Republican Policy Committee since 2012. Read MoreSep. 13, 2017
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James P. Danly ’13 named general counsel for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Danly previously served as an associate at Skadden Arps, where he focused on energy regulation. Read MoreSep. 13, 2017
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Bob Reder ’78 among first to respond to Chancellor’s Chair Challenge
Reder and his wife, Theresa, have established the Enterprise Chair at VLS through a significant gift. Retired from a 33-year legal career with Milbank Tweed in New York, Reder is now a professor of the practice of law at Vanderbilt. Read MoreAug. 25, 2017
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Joycelyn Stevenson ’01 featured as “Attorney of the Month” in Attorney at Law Magazine
Stevenson was recently named executive director of the Tennessee Bar Association. Read MoreAug. 24, 2017
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Nat Robinson ’18 (MBA’07) and team of MBA students seek to provide secure mobile banking for refugees
Robinson's team of Turner Family Center for Social Ventures summer fellows won $15,000 at the 36/86 Student Edition Pitch Competition with their idea for a mobile banking service and researched countries where they will launch the new service. Their work will continue during this academic year. Read MoreAug. 23, 2017
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Three VLS alumni are 2017-18 presidents of the Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee Bar Associations
Augusta Dowd ’82, Brian D. (Buck) Rogers ’94 and Lucian Pera ‘85 are serving one-year terms as presidents of the Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee state bar associations, and Joycelyn Stevenson ‘01 was named executive director of the TBA. Read MoreAug. 16, 2017
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Holly Thompson ’19 selected for inaugural class of Douglass Fellows by Human Trafficking Institute
Thompson will work throughout the academic year to support HTI’s justice and advocacy efforts. Read MoreAug. 7, 2017
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50 VLS graduates will serve 53 clerkships in 2017-18 or future terms
VLS students and graduates will serve federal clerkships with a Supreme Court justice; appellate judges on the Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Eleventh, D.C. and Federal Circuits; a special master of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims; and district courts in 17 states and D.C.; and two state supreme courts. Read MoreJul. 28, 2017
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Pushing Boundaries: Aschkan Abdul-Malek JD/MBA’06 seeks challenge in Afghan health care startup
Amanda Rose, professor of law, who is president of the Vanderbilt Law School Chapter of Order of the Coif, has announced that 18 graduates of the Class of 2017 have been selected for membership in the Order of the Coif. Members of this prestigious organization are selected by… Read MoreJul. 26, 2017