Improving the lives of veterans living in the Peach State is the goal of the University of Georgia School of Law's Veterans Legal Clinic. The impact of this 18-month-old clinic is real and growing. Early this year, the clinic had an active caseload representing around 25 veterans at one time. Since April, the clinic has secured over $230,000 in additional financial relief for former members of our country's military. By all accounts, this impact will grow exponentially due to the Veterans Legal Clinic adding a full-time attorney in August to help clinic Director Alexander Scherr manage cases and supervise students.
Congratulations to second-year students Garrett Michael and Jenna Wojcicki for finishing as co-champions in the ABA Regional Negotiation Competition held at Texas A&M University. The team will compete in the ABA National Negotiation Competition in February 2020. Additionally, a team comprised of second-year students Josh Fowler and Sadie Gibson finished as finalists at the contest.
The University of Georgia School of Law will host the 4th Annual Rural Healthcare Symposium, which will focus on resilience in rural healthcare - how Georgia's rural health organizations prepare for risk, disruption, continuity, sustained service and success. To be held Nov. 14 in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall on UGA's North Campus, the purpose of the symposium is to bring together various stakeholders - academic researchers, legislators, medical providers and community advocates - and have discussions focused on generating potential solutions to the current rural healthcare crisis.
Congratulations to third-year students Thomas H. Paris IV and Georgia L. Turner, who defeated a team from the University of Florida to win the annual Florida/Georgia-Hulsey/Gambrell Moot Court Competition in Jacksonville. The long-running tournament is traditionally held before the Georgia-Florida football game. Two law students from each school compete as lawyers in a mock appellate case, and the victors earn the right to keep the championship trophy at their law school for the year. The School of Law's win brings its record in the competition to 24-11-2.
The University of Georgia School of Law will host a discussion of the recently published book Mass Tort Deals: Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation, which was written by Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, the holder of the law school's Fuller E. Callaway Chair. The discussion will be held Nov. 8 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Classroom B of Hirsch Hall on UGA's North Campus. The event is free and open to the public.