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| Lawyers taught ‘soul of criminal defense’ in institute at Mercer Law School |
 MACON, Ga. - About 250 criminal defense lawyers from across the nation will participate in the 26th Annual Trial Practice Institute of the National Criminal Defense College at Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law. The institute, which starts Monday (June 15) and runs through June 27, is designed to enhance the trial-advocacy skills of criminal defense attorneys who largely represent the poor. |
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| (Posted: 06/14/09) |
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| Oxford Univ. Press publishes upcoming work by Mercer patent law expert |
 Mercer Law professor David Hricik's recent book titled, Patent Ethics: Prosecution, has been published by Oxford University Press and is available on the publisher’s Web site at www.oup.com. The work is co-authored by Mercedes Meyer, partner at DrinkerBiddle. Stanford Law professor Mark Lemley and John Dzienkowski, professor at the University of Texas School of Law, praised Hricik and the book: “David Hricik is the nation's leading expert on patent ethics,” Lemley said. Dzienkowski called the book “sophisticated” and one that would benefit judges, academics and practicing lawyers. |
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| (Posted: 06/03/09) |
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| Graduates: 'pursue truth … and above all, seek justice' |
 MACON, Ga. - Invoking the names of great literary and legal giants as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Honorable Judge Edward H. Johnson of the Court of Appeals of Georgia offered an extraordinarily powerful message to the 2009 Mercer Law School graduates: “…pursue truth … and above all, seek justice.” In closing, Presiding Judge Johnson urged the 150-plus graduates to remember four things: “You’re part of a noble profession; “The U.S. judicial system is worth defending and preserving”; “Strive to find balance in your life”; and “Treat your clients with respect, compassion and a sense of humanity.”
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| Students elect first Asian American woman SBA president |
 MACON, Ga. – Rizza Charmaine Palmares, a rising third-year law student from Savannah, Ga., was recently elected president of the Student Bar Association at Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law. Palmares, whose parents are from the Philippines and who considers herself Asian American, is the first Asian American woman elected as SBA president at Mercer Law School. Among other important functions, the SBA acts as the voice of the student body at the law school. |
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| (Posted: 05/12/09) |
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| Mercer’s Habeas Project A Lifeline for the Wrongfully Imprisoned |
 MACON, Ga. - The Habeas Project distinguishes Mercer as the first and, so far, only program in Georgia to handle non-capital, post-conviction cases on a strictly pro bono basis. To people who are wrongfully imprisoned, it represents a legal lifeline that could lead to a new trial.
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| (Posted: 05/06/09) |
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