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Making a Difference
September 22, 2017 4:58 pm
In rural Louisiana sits a dull gray building surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire. Technically it’s not a prison, but it might as well be. It was also a destination for David Samples and Jared Allen, students at the University of Tennessee College of Law.

UT Law alumnus honored as construction “Lawyer of the Year”
September 22, 2017 4:16 pm
College of Law graduate Randy Hafer, (’83) has received the Best Lawyers 2018 Litigation – Construction “Lawyer of the Year” award in Atlanta. Hafer, a partner with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, is the team leader of firm’s construction and infrastructure projects team.

Jewel earns recognition for legal communication scholarship
September 6, 2017 11:09 am
Lucille Jewel, Professor of Law at UT, has been awarded the inaugural Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Communication from the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute. The Phelps Award highlights individual works of outstanding scholarship specific to the legal writing discipline and helps set aspirational standards for other writings.

Alumna receives New Advocate of the Year award
September 1, 2017 10:17 am
University of Tennessee College of Law 2013 graduate Christina Magráns-Tillery has received the 2017 New Advocate of the Year Award. Magráns-Tillery is a staff attorney at Legal Aid of East Tennessee.

UT Law welcomes larger, more diverse class of students
August 31, 2017 10:20 am
The University of Tennessee College of Law this month welcomed its largest class of incoming students in four years. The class of 2020 includes 122 students who are residents of 17 different states: 85 are in-state, while 37 are out-of-state students.

UT Law teams with Alliance for Better Nonprofits
August 28, 2017 5:46 pm
The University of Tennessee College of Law Legal Clinic is partnering with the Alliance for Better Nonprofits of Knoxville to expand its offering of free transactional legal services to nonprofit organizations, small businesses, entrepreneurs and artists. Throughout its 70 years of service, the UT Legal Clinic has served thousands of clients.

All-community response underway with Houston flooding
August 28, 2017 5:09 pm
UT Law Professor Glenn Reynolds is sourced in this story from The Christian Science Monitor. The story suggests that the all-hands-on-deck response to historic floods in Houston, Texas, exemplifies something new. It’s a template for what the nation’s top emergency managers call “whole-community” response.

Zuckerberg for president? That could be a problem.
August 25, 2017 8:04 am
UT Law Professor Maurice Stucke is sourced in story from The Nation. The story suggests if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg became president, we would be handing over the leadership of an already privacy-violating government to the creator of one of the world’s most invasive surveillance platforms.

Those donating to white supremacist groups get IRS tax breaks
August 18, 2017 4:05 pm
UT Law Professor Eric Amarante is sourced in with this Business Insider story: “People who donate to white supremacist groups can get a tax break because the IRS considers many of them ‘educational.'” Amarante suggests the problem lies in an “unnecessarily broad definition of ‘educational.