MACON – Mercer University Trustee Thomas Malone, a 1966 graduate of Mercer’s Walter F. George School of Law, is featured on the cover of the 2010 Georgia Super Lawyers magazine under the heading, “The New King of Torts.” He was joined on the elite list by fellow Mercer trustees and law graduates Dwight J. Davis and Richard A. “Doc” Schneider, both senior partners with Atlanta’s King & Spalding law firm, and M. Diane Owens, partner with Atlanta’s Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers. Current Mercer trustee and former board chair David E. Hudson, who earned his undergraduate degree from Mercer and his law degree from Harvard, also was included in the 2010 edition of the publication. He is a partner with the Augusta law firm of Hull Barrett, PC. |
MACON - Valerie Caproni, general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at Mercer Law School’s 2010 Law Day luncheon on March 12. A summa cum laude graduate of University of Georgia Law School, Caproni was named FBI general counsel August 2003 by then FBI Director Robert Mueller. Among her responsibilities is helping agents understand the legal parameters within which they can track down, investigate and detain suspected terrorists.
CHARLESTON, S.C. – A moot court team at Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law swept the Charleston School of Law “National Moot Court Competition” last week, winning the coveted championship award and both “Best Respondent’s Brief” and “Best Oralist.” In the closing rounds, the team, comprised of third-year law students Falen Cox (pictured far left) and Emily Macheski-Preston, defeated law school teams from the University of Florida (quarterfinals), DePaul University (semifinals) and Florida Coastal (finals).
