The University of Georgia School of Law's clinical program continues to build on its commitment to providing both outstanding legal education for students and legal services on behalf of underserved communities with the addition of five new attorneys in 2024 - Ethan Smith, Thomas Evans (J.D.’22), Christina Lee, Urub Khawaja and Trey Barnett.
Smith, the new staff attorney in the Veterans Legal Clinic, earned his J.D. from Georgia State University in 2018 before serving in the Judge Advocate General Corps for the U.S. Navy. Evans, a UGA Law 2022 graduate who served two years as a staff attorney with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is the inaugural post-graduate legal fellow in the Community Health Law Partnership Clinic. The First Amendment Clinic welcomed two new legal fellows - Lee, a 2021 graduate of Cornell Law School and former associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City, and Khawaja, a 2024 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. And, Barnett is the most recent legal fellow to join on the Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic team. Previously, he worked as an assistant public defender in the DeKalb County Public Defender's Office following his graduation from the Georgia State University College of Law in 2021.