Alumni
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Olympic swimmer and gold medalist Shannon Vreeland joins the Class of 2019
Vox Video features Shannon Vreeland '19 as she starts her 1L year at VLS. Read MoreAug. 18, 2016
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Mary Frances Lyle ’79 dies at 80
Lyle entered law school at 40 and then devoted her legal career to improving the lives of women and children. Read MoreAug. 16, 2016
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Joni Poitier ’05 honored by ABA as “Top 40” young lawyer
Poitier is an attorney with Moseley Princhard Parrish Knight & Jones in Jacksonville, Florida. Before joining the firm, she was a state prosecutor. Read MoreAug. 15, 2016
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Aschkan Abdul-Malek, JD/MBA ’06, featured in Entrepreneur magazine for Kabul health-care start-up
Abdul-Malek launched Alem-Health in 2014 to connect Afghan hospitals with foreign specialists. His company expanded to Lagos, Nigeria, this year. Read MoreAug. 5, 2016
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45 VLS graduates will serve clerkships in 2016-17 or future terms
Vanderbilt Law graduates will clerk for judges in federal and state courts in 17 states. Read MoreJul. 28, 2016
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Civil rights leader and former Oklahoma State Senator E. Melvin Porter ’59 dead at 86
Porter and classmate Fred Work became Vanderbilt’s first two African American graduates in 1959. Read MoreJul. 27, 2016
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27 VLS students are working in legal offices for course credit in summer 2016
VLS students will receive course credit for their summer work in federal and state judicial chambers, in the offices of U.S. Attorneys and state attorneys general, and with corporations and advocacy organizations. Read MoreJul. 25, 2016
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84 VLS students receive 2016 summer stipends to support pro bono work
Students are working in judicial chambers and with government agencies, attorneys general, district attorneys, public defenders and public interest organizations with VLS support. Read MoreJul. 25, 2016
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Article by Emily Taylor ’16 on “Waters of the United States” to Be Published in Environmental Law Reporter
Article Taylor completed as a semester-long research project supervised by Clean Water Act expert J.B. Ruhl to be published in the peer-reviewed journal of the Environmental Law Institute. Read MoreJul. 15, 2016
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