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Digital Commons @ Georgia Law Other Law School Publications Archives 7-1-1990 Profiles in Excellence - Classes of 1991 & 1992 University of Georgia School of Law Repository Citation University of Georgia School of Law, "Profiles in Excellence - Classes of 1991 & 1992" (1990). Other Law School Publications. 65. https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_archives_other/65 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives at Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Other Law School Publications by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. Please share how you have benefited from this access For more information, please contact [email protected]. The University of Georgia School of Law Profiles In Excellence Classes of 1991 & 1992 ~ Ji~ ! I ! II i '!'g , I ~l··~'i J;:.§' I '~ ,~ Profiles in Excellence Summer 1990 Letter from the Dean 2 Law School Description and Academic Calendar 3 Office of Legal Career Services: Policies and Services 4 Faculty 6 Clinical Education Programs 8 Student Publications and Student Organizations 9 Employment Preference Index for the Class of 1991 12 Employment Preference Index for the Class of 1992 13 Directory of Third-Year Students (Class of 1991) 14 Directory of Third-Year Students Not Pictured 50 Directory of Second-Year Students (Class of 1992) 54 Directory of Second-Year Students Not Pictured 95 Employer Data Sheet Gob Posting Request Form) 97 Student Portrait Photography: Chuck Moore, Athens, Georgia Cover Art © U'clrrenL. Kirbo The high quality of our students is one of the points of pride of The University of Georgia School of Law. The men and women who enter this school as first-year students come to us with impressive academic credentials and a demonstrated capacity to excel. They are challenged here by a strong faculty, and by each other, to grow intellectually, to develop their skills and talents, and to appreciate the great traditions ofthe legal profession that they are about to enter. The School of Law commends these outstanding students for their many and varied accomplishments. They are well suited, by ability and training, to take their places among the best of our profession like the Georgia Law School graduates who have gone before them. C. Ronald Ellington Dean 2 Bar Examination Rate: Of the 156 Georgia graduates who took the Georgia Bar Examination for the first time in February 1990 (the most recent examination at the time of this directory went to print) 91 percent were successful in qualifying to practice law in the state. International Studies: The Law School has gained an increasingly wide- spread reputation as a center for studies in international law, and is designated a Specialized European Documentation Centre by the European Communities. Offered in the curriculum are courses and seminars in both private and public international law. The program reflects strong interest on the part of students who publish the Geor- gia Journal of International and Comparative Law, one of approxi- mately thirty student-published international law journals in the U.S. These students also continue to take an active role in the Law Student Division of the American Society of International Law. Professor Louis Sohn, the immediate past-president of the American Society ofInternational Law, is a full-time member of the faculty. The current program of research and instruction in this area is further augmented and expanded by the Dean Rusk Center for International and Com- parative Law, which opened in fall 1977. Order of the Coif; Founded in 1977, the Georgia Chapter of the Order of the Coif recognizes outstanding students from the top 10% of the graduating class. Georgia's petition for a Coif chapter received an unanimous vote of approval from the then 56 member schools. The installation of this chapter ensures recognition of the academic ac- complishments of our graduates in the legal circles in which they compete. Grading System: The University of Georgia School of Law uses a nu- merical grading system with letter graduations (i.e. plus or minus). In recognition of the overall academic strength of the Georgia student body and to reduce distortions caused by significant grade compres- sion, the faculty voted to abolish individual class ranks for the ma- jority of each class commencing with the Class of 1992. Students receive a semester and cumulative grade point average. An Omnibus Grade Distribution Chart will be compiled each semester to aid employers in evaluating how well a student has performed relative to that student's classmates. Employers desiring a grade transcript from a student must request it directly from the individual student. The Legal Career Services Office does not provide this service. Em- ployers who receive an official UGA student transcript need to be aware that the transcript will not reflect a law student's true law The University of Georgia school g.p.a. As the UGA Registrar's Office does not compute the plus/minus system used by the law school, the official transcript School of Law reflects only straight letter grades. The UGA Law School Registrar, at the request of a student, can provide a certified law school tran- script which will reflect the plus/minus point values. The breakdown History: Established in 1859 as the Joseph H. Lumpkin School of Law, of the grading system is as follows: A + (4.3), A (4.0), A- (3.7), B + the school is the second oldest of The University of Georgia's thirteen (3.3), B (3.0), B- (2.7), C + (2.3), C (2.0), C- (1.7). schools and colleges. Enrollment: 630 (1989-90) Law School Campus: Hirsch Hall, located on the University's north Academic Calendar campus, was constructed for the School of Law in 1932. A 2.75 million dollar addition to this building was completed in 1967. This Fall Semester 1990 complex provides 102,000 square feet of work and study space. Class- rooms and seminar rooms, faculty offices, library, courtroom, com- August 22 Classes Begin puter rooms, student lounges, conference rooms and administrative September 9-0ctober 31 Available for interview dates offices are the facilities for a professional school which administers September 19-21; September 28; Unavailable for interview dates its own admissions, registration, and career services. An annex to October 5 the law library was completed in March 1981. The new building November 19-23 Thanksgiving Recess accommodates 106,000 volumes and provides office and study space, December 5 Classes end two conference rooms, and an audiovisual room. In addition, the December 10-18 Examinations Dean Rusk Center for International Law, located in Waddel Hall, December 19-January 14 Winter Recess provides office and conference room facilities for the school's ex- panding research and instructional programs in the field of inter- Spring Semester 1991 national law. December 20 First day written requests accepted Law Library: The Law Library is one of the 25 largest law school for Fall 1991 Interview Dates libraries in the United States. This official size category established January 14 Classes begin by the Association of American Law Schools and American Asso- January 28-April 26 Available for interview dates ciation of Law Libraries is in recognition of the library's volume and March 25-29 Spring Recess volume equivalent count. The collection includes a comprehensive March 29 First day telephone requests accepted listing of material on Anglo-American law as well as extensive hold- for Fal/1991 Interview Dates ings in international relations law and foreign law. April 29 Classes end Student Body: Students come to the School of Law from undergraduate May 3-May 13 Examinations degree programs in over 150 colleges and universities located in May 18 Commencement approximately 30 states. Each year approximately 220 students are admitted to the first-year class. 3 As previously stated, the Georgia Law School subscribes to the NALP Principles and Standards for Law Placement and Recruitment Activities THE OFFICE and the policies established by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). By using the services provided by the Legal Career Services Office, employers affirm their intent to comply with these guidelines. OF LEGAL CAREER Office Policies. SERVICES Office Services The services provided by the Office of Legal Career Services to The University of Georgia School of Law has been a member of the employers include: National Association for Law Placement (NALP) since 1977. NALP was organized in 1971 to promote the exchange of information and On-Campus Interviews cooperation between law schools and employers. To further advance those interests, NALP developed the NALP Principles and Standards Employers who would like to conduct personal interviews with stu- for Law Placement and Recruitment Activities to which the University dents at the law school are provided office space to do so at no charge. of Georgia School of Law subscribes. A copy of the NALP Principles Interviews may be scheduled with LL.M. students and third-year stu- and Standards will be sent to interested employers upon request. dents seeking full-time employment and/or first- and second- year stu- The Office of Legal Career Services (LCS) acts as a liaison between dents and LL.M. students seeking summer employment or part-time employers and law students and as a source for information regarding employment. First-year students may not participate in fall on-campus the legal employment market. The office serves as a clearinghouse for interviews but are permitted to interview on-campus in the spring se- job notices from prospective employers seeking to hire students and mester. Employers desiring to interview on-campus during fall semester alumni for full-time, summer, or part-time positions. Assistance is also may either FAX or mail in a written request on or after December 20, provided to employers seeking to hire experienced lawyers.

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