Apr. 29, 2015—J.D./Ph.D. in Law & Economics
Apr. 28, 2015—Winner, 2015 Nagareda Prize for best scholarly paper focusing on litigation
Oct. 10, 2014—Garrison Public Interest Fellow, Southern Center for Human Rights; Justice-Moore Family Public Interest Scholar
May. 23, 2014—Summer 2016, Cravath Swaine & Moore, New York
May. 20, 2014—Wade Scholar; Editor in Chief, Vanderbilt Law Review
May. 7, 2014—“My job enabled me to see universities all over the country, and my visit to Vanderbilt was the reason I applied to VLS.”
May. 6, 2014—“I feel really engaged in the classroom, and I enjoy being called on—it’s your chance for feedback.”
May. 5, 2014—“At community events, I’d also run into Vanderbilt Law students who loved the school.” A visit to Vanderbilt cinched her choice.
May. 2, 2014—Robin Frazer McGuffin has known she wanted to be a lawyer since she was 14. Vanderbilt Law School became one of her top choices as soon as she entered Vanderbilt University as a freshman in 2008. “Vanderbilt had the southern connection, the proximity to Kentucky and outstanding academics, and I was struck by the beautiful...
May. 1, 2014—2014 Summer Associate, Keller and Heckman, Washington, D.C.
Apr. 28, 2014—“I really like the culture at Vanderbilt. I knew I could spend three years here and then remain a part of this community once I graduated.”
Apr. 25, 2014—“I’m choosing courses based on the professor and by areas of law that interest me and cover things I’d love to learn.”
Apr. 25, 2014—“Vanderbilt has a really strong reputation for job placement, which was one of my primary concerns.”
Apr. 25, 2014—“I consider myself very loyal to this institution, so I really liked the idea of beginning my career with two Vanderbilt degrees.”
Oct. 16, 2013—Bri Rizzo first became interested in intellectual property in a philosophy class she took while earning her B.A. in government at the University of Virginia. “I had never really thought about the idea of intellectual property—the idea that you could preclude others from using something intangible, and that you could make a living doing that,”...
Jul. 16, 2013—Notes Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law
Mar. 13, 2013—Will Marks discovered his talent for effective advocacy during grade school. “I thought my bedtime was too early, so I listed all of the reasons why I should get to stay up later on a note card and presented my argument to my parents,” he recalled. Marks not only won his case, but his mother...
Feb. 13, 2013—When 16-year-old Junior Ambeau moved to the U.S. from Haiti with his mother and siblings to join his father in Fort Myers, Florida, he made an eye-opening discovery. Ambeau’s father has spent years working extremely long hours at both full- and part-time jobs to support his large, extended family in Haiti. “He worked really hard...
Feb. 6, 2012—Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Frankfurt, Germany 2014-15, Clerk, Judge Kevin Sharpe, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee Raymonde I. Paul Scholar Margaret Artz’s interest in international law and policy has roots in her early childhood in Lesotho, a small country in southern Africa, where her parents worked in development and education. After...
Feb. 6, 2012—Associate, Squire Sanders, San Francisco, California At the start of his 2L year, Shen Zhang made a courageous choice: He entered Vanderbilt’s Moot Court competition. The competition required Zhang, a Chinese national, to address the aspect of American legal practice he finds most difficult: oral argument. “Delivering the oral argument was challenging, but I also...
Feb. 6, 2012—Associate, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, Charlotte, North Carolina Wendy Wright was surprised to discover her interest in transactional law in her first-year Contracts course. “I had Professor [Tracey] George for Contracts, and I really liked the class,” she said. “She’s academically tough but fair, and her approach was very problem-based.” Approaching contracts as “problem...
Feb. 6, 2012—After Karen Usselman Lindell graduated from the University of Georgia in 2007, she joined AmeriCorps and spent the following year as an English-as-a-second-language instructor in northern Virginia, “a wonderful experience,” she recalls. Then Lindell moved to Nashville to join her fiance, a student at Vanderbilt Medical School whom she married in 2011. “My plan was...
Feb. 6, 2012—Katlyn Miller had an unparalleled opportunity to learn how the highest court in the land operates during the two years she served on the staff of the Supreme Court of the United States. Miller had originally planned to enter law school immediately after earning her undergraduate degree at American University. However, after interning in the...
Feb. 6, 2012—As an associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer based in New York, Lexi Menish is looking forward to work involving international arbitration in the firm’s dispute resolution group. Menish became interested in pursuing a career in international law while working in China as an English teacher and private school administrator. “The rule of law in China...