Stetson Law presents two Tampa attorneys with 2005 Wm. Reece Smith Jr. Public Service Award
Stetson University College of Law announces the winners of the 2005 William Reece Smith Jr. Public Service Award: Tampa criminal defense attorney Rochelle Reback and Carlton Fields attorney Sylvia Walbolt. The awards were presented at the law school’s spring graduation Honors and Awards ceremony May 13.
Stetson to present a variety of summer youth programs at Tampa Law Center
Stetson University will offer several fun educational summer programs for High Achieving Talented Students in grades four through nine at the Tampa Law Center starting June 20. The deadline for registration is June 1.
Stetson honors late Ybor City restaurateur Cesar Gonzmart Successful businessman was knighted by the King of Spain
Stetson University will honor late Ybor City leader Dr. Cesar Gonzmart
with a 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award during Stetson’s Trustee Dinner
Thursday, May 19, at the historic Columbia Restaurant, owned and
operated by Gonzmart’s children and grandchildren. The original
Columbia is located at 2117 East 7th Avenue in Tampa.
Stetson Law Dean and recent alumna receive national legal writing awards
The Burton Foundation, in association with the Law Library of Congress, has selected Stetson University College of Law Dean Darby Dickerson and recent Stetson alumna Carrie Ann Wozniak for national recognition for excellence in legal writing. Dickerson will receive the 2005 Burton Award for Outstanding Contributions to Legal Writing Education, and Wozniak will be one of 15 students honored nationally with a 2005 Burton Award for Legal Achievement.
Distinguished U.S. Circuit Judge to speak at Stetson Law graduation
Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will speak at Stetson University College of Law’s spring commencement, May 14 at 9 a.m., in the outdoor courtyard of the College’s Gulfport campus.
Stetson’s Tampa Law Center wins design award
Stetson University College of Law and architectural firm FleischmanGarcia recently received an award of merit at the Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission’s 23rd Annual Community Design Awards. The commission honored the design of Stetson’s Tampa Law Center in the Institutional, Public and Quasi-Public Projects category at the award ceremony at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino April 21.
Tammy Briant elected to head Stetson Law student government
Stetson University College of Law student and Columbia Station, Ohio, native Tammy Briant was elected president of the College’s Calvin A. Kuenzel Student Bar Association, the governing body for all Stetson Law students.
Two Stetson Law professors honored with endowed positions
Stetson University College of Law recently appointed two professors to endowed faculty positions.
Stetson University College of Law ties as top American advocacy school Legal research and writing program ties as nation’s third-best
Stetson University College of Law has once again tied as the best school in the nation for trial advocacy training in the 2006 graduate school rankings from U.S. News & World Report. The magazine also recognized Stetson’s legal research and writing program, which tied for third in the nation.
Madison Mosley, Stetson Law library director, professor and community leader, dies
Stetson University College of Law Director of the Law Library and Information Services and Associate Professor of Law Madison Mosley died Tuesday, March 29, 2005. He was 55.
Two top forensic minds to team for free lecture at Stetson Law
Renowned forensic expert Dr. Michael Baden will return to Stetson University College of Law with Dr. Peter Dean for a lecture at noon on April 4 in the Great Hall of Stetson’s Gulfport campus. The speech, “Forensic pathology on both sides of the pond,” is free and open to the public.
Stetson University College of Law wins world championship
Stetson University College of Law became the first American law school
since 1996 to win the Willem C. Vis International Commercial
Arbitration Moot competition, held March 18-24 in Vienna, Austria.
Teams from 150 law schools in 47 countries competed.