The College of Law invites alumni and other legal professionals to register for a new domestic violence continuing legal education program, “Taming the Tiger: Professionally Representing Your Client in Domestic Violence Cases and Navigating Order of Protection Court,” to be held Friday, March 27.
The UT College of Law invites lawyers, health care providers, students, faculty, and members of the community to gather on Friday, March 6, for a one-day symposium on health care law and policy issues and solutions.
The UT College of Law was awarded the Harrison Tweed Bowl for best brief at the 2015 National Moot Court Competition in New York City.
Wendy Bach, associate professor, and Carol Parker, professor, are faculty trailblazers in the College of Law.
Students weighing their law school options are invited to experience the UT College of Law community firsthand at Vol Visit 2015.
As part of the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, UT Law students will offer free tax preparation help to members of the community, including staff members.
UT law students work on old cases through the Innocence and Wrongful Convictions Clinic. The program can be found at colleges across America. WBIR-TV‘s Heidi Wigdahl takes a look inside the program and students’ work with one wrongful conviction case that freed wrongly convicted Margo Freshwater.
City of Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton will deliver the keynote address at the fifteenth annual Julian Blackshear Jr. Scholarship Gala, which recognizes and celebrates students and alumni who have positively impacted the UT College of Law through their commitment to diversity.
Since the fall of 2009, the Homer A. Jones Jr. Wills Clinic at the UT College of Law has been providing estate planning services to East Tennesseans of modest means.
Juan Cristóbal Quevedo, a second-year student at the College of Law, was one of twelve students nationwide to be awarded the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund Law School Scholarship. Quevedo, the only scholarship recipient from a law school in the Southeast, is an immigrant from Mexico who successfully coordinated his family’s seven-year immigration
Melanie D. Wilson, professor of law, associate dean for academic affairs, and director of diversity and inclusion at the University of Kansas School of Law, will be the new dean of the UT College of Law. Wilson will begin on July 1, 2015.
Law students and Associate Professor of Law Karla McKanders have been interviewed by Reuters, WBIR-TV, and the Knoxville News Sentinel about President Obama’s immigration plan. “If the past is any indication, it’s going to be a significant increase in people asking for legal assistance,” McKanders, who runs the immigration law clinic at the College of