UT Law welcomed the newest members of the college family this week, including 116 1Ls of the Class of 2018. The new 1Ls hail from four countries and seventeen states.
The University of Tennessee College of Law has selected five first-year students to become Tennessee Law Scholars as part of the college’s most prestigious scholarship program.
The Batswana use the term “botho” to describe a person who is courteous, disciplined, and realizes his or her full potential both as an individual and as a part of the community to which he or she belongs. In a sense, it is a social contract by which one lives.
Third-year student Casey Duhart received the 2015 Law Student Diversity Scholarship from the Defense Research Institute (DRI), the largest international membership organization of attorneys defending the interests of business and individuals in civil litigation.
The University of Tennessee College of Law’s Innocence and Wrongful Convictions Clinic was recently featured by the Knoxville News Sentinel for their work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice.
Two soon-to-be graduates of UT Law are a step closer to becoming judge advocates in the U.S. Marine Corps. William Bateman, of Memphis, and Marc Napolitana, of Westford, Massachusetts, will graduate from the College of Law on Thursday.
First-year law students are invited to consider the University of Tennessee College of Law to complete their legal education. Second- and third-year students may take advantage of the college’s academic concentrations in transactional law and advocacy and dispute resolution, its highly regarded clinical programs, and other academic and co-curricular programs for which Tennessee is noted.
A number of University of Tennessee College of Law students, staff, and faculty were honored for their achievements and service at the annual Honors Banquet on February 27. “This is one of my favorite events of the year,” said Dean Doug Blaze during the event.