Alumni Events

An opportunity for students to network and learn from female alumni

Dr. Larry Richard is recognized as the leading expert on the psychology of lawyer behavior. He has advised hundreds of top law firms and major corporate law departments on leadership, lawyer well-being, building psychological resilience, management, and related issues such as teaming and collaboration, coping with change,

motivation, innovation, collaboration, influencing skills, talent selection, assessment, and other aspects of professional development and OD. Widely known as an expert on the lawyer personality, he has gathered personality data on thousands of lawyers.

The 14th Annual Global Educational Forum is an instrument of diversity in research, teaching, and service across the University of Georgia campus and Athens community, with featured scholars coming within and outside the University sharing the state-of-the art scholarship to inform current human developments in local and global context. While past forums focused on women in science and medicine, Olympics and development, and human health, the 2020 forum centers on sport, development, and community in worldwide communities.

Speed networking provides a supported opportunity for law students and recent graduates to meet University of Georgia School of Law graduates. Students will circulate, in virtual meeting rooms, and visit with alums, to learn about their practices, to make connections, and to get career advice,

Registration is required.

Register in LawDawgDash to get link to the Speed Networking event. Attendance is limited, and spots will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please join us for the University of Georgia School of Law Admitted Students Reception in Atlanta, GA with Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge, Dean of the UGA School of Law & Talmadge Chair of Law. You and your guests are invited to meet your future classmates, area law school alumni/alumnae and current law school students.

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A collaboration between several organizations, this unique program is designed to round out skillsets needed to navigate and succeed in the ever-changing legal landscape. Going beyond a speaker series, Passport to Practice will require modest pre-reads, session attendance, and brief learning comprehension checks. Participants completing the requirements will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.

BLSA is organizing a march to take place on September 4, 2020. The purpose of this event is to bring awareness to issues affecting law students at UGA (specifically black and brown students) and issues affecting the minority community in Athens, GA.

Masks required. All participants must stay on the sidewalk.

This event is part of the Dean Rusk Center's ongoing Consular Series, which presents students, staff, and faculty with global perspectives on international trade, cooperation, development, and policy.

Speakers from Embassy Seoul will be: Aaron Tarver, Cultural Attach?; Anna Dupont, Director of Exchanges and Alumni Programs; and Bill Furnish, Chief Program Officer.

This event is co-sponsored by the International Law Society and the Asian Law Students Association.

Justice Robert Benham (J.D.'70), the longest serving and first African American member of the Supreme Court of Georgia, will present UGA's 2020 Holmes-Hunter Lecture Feb. 3 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel.

Named in honor of Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes, the first African American students to attend UGA, the lecture is sponsored by the Office of the President and focuses on race relations, civil rights and education. It has been held annually since 1985.

Susan R. Lambreth is a founding Principal at LawVision and is nationally recognized as one of the top leadership, practice group and project management consultants for law firms. For over 25 years, she has helped law firms of all sizes improve their profitability and enhance their lawyers' leadership and management skills.