The Stetson Lawyers Association honored alumni and friends on June 22 in Kissimmee, Fla., during the Florida Bar Annual Convention. Attorney General of Florida Pamela J. Bondi JD ’90 received the Distinguished Alumna Award for extraordinary service to Stetson Law and to the legal profession. Bondi, who became Attorney General in 2010, was a prosecutor for more than 18 years and successfully prosecuted numerous first-degree… » Read more

Six trustees have been appointed to Stetson University’s Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2011. Each trustee is appointed to a three-year term. New trustee and Stetson alumna Betty Drees Johnson, professor and director of the duPont-Ball Library on Stetson’s DeLand campus, will retire on Sept. 1 after 50 years at the university. Rising through the ranks of several positions in the library, Johnson has… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law is offering an information session in August for prospective students interested in earning their law degrees part-time. The session in Gulfport will provide an overview of the process of applying to law school. Stetson Law enrolls new part-time students in the fall of every year. Those interested in attending should RSVP for the session: Aug. 24 in the Great Hall… » Read more

A trio of students from Stetson University College of Law won the top three awards at the 2011 Robert Orseck Memorial Moot Court Competition in Orlando on June 23.   Stetson’s moot court team of Chad Burgess, Brooke Geiger, and Jason Lambert won the competition and the Best Brief award. Jason Lambert won the Best Final Round Oralist award. The annual event is held in… » Read more

Stetson University Provost Beth Paul announced today that Professor Royal C. Gardner will serve as interim dean of the College of Law beginning in early July. Dean Darby Dickerson has accepted a deanship at Texas Tech University School of Law.   “I am confident that the strong momentum at Stetson University College of Law will continue under Professor Gardner’s leadership,” said President Wendy B. Libby.… » Read more

A total of 309 Stetson University College of Law alumni were recognized in this year’s Florida Super Lawyers® list, and 171 alumni were listed in the Florida Rising Stars® list. Super Lawyers Magazine publishes a list of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas and Rising Stars is a list of the top up-and-coming attorneys in the state—those who are 40 years old or… » Read more

Follow the group on their journey by visiting the student blog here: http://stetsonlaw.wordpress.com/ In May of 1961, Ernest “Rip” Patton was a 21-year-old drum major at Tennessee State University and Freedom Rider headed for Jackson, Miss., when he was arrested and transferred to Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Prison. This June, Rip Patton will retrace that journey, this time joined by Stetson University undergraduate and law… » Read more

Professor Eddie Ohlbaum, director of Temple Law School’s Trial Advocacy and Clinical Education program, was awarded the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Advocacy on May 26 at the “Educating Advocates: Teaching Advocacy Skills” conference at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport. Professor Ohlbaum  is the author of several books, and consults and lectures on evidence, litigation strategy, advocacy, and ethics to judicial… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law Vice President and Dean Darby Dickerson announced plans to leave Stetson in early July to join Texas Tech University School of Law as Dean and will hold the W. Frank Newton Endowed Professorship. Dickerson has been dean of Stetson Law since February 2004, after serving as interim dean in 2003 following the death of Dean Gary Vause. “Darby Dickerson has… » Read more

For the past 14 years, law students at Stetson University College of Law have had an opportunity to sharpen their advocacy skills before practicing judges and attorneys at the Carlton Fields First-Year Appellate Advocacy Competition, held this year on April 16. This year, Stetson students Amar Agha and Max Holzbaur won first place in the competition; students Erin Okuno and Julia Richmond won second place;… » Read more

In August, just four months after the oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, Stetson Law gathered a roundtable of legal experts on the Gulfport, Fla., campus to discuss how the law had responded to similar disasters in the past, what to expect this time, and what legal experts should be talking about to prevent this type of disaster from happening again in the future.

Stetson Law students won a series of awards at the Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot.