First-year student Steele wins annual Hugh Lawson award
First-year Mercer law student Christopher Steele recently won the Hugh Lawson Moot Court competition at Mercer’s Walter F. George School of Law. The annual competition, held this year on March 6 during Law Day, is awarded to a first-year student who most effectively argues before a panel of Mercer Law School alumni judges and the third-year student who formerly received the award.
The judges this year included Dwight Davis ’82, a partner at King & Spalding in Atlanta; W. Louis Sands ’74, a U.S. District Court judge in the Middle District of Georgia; John Carbo ’79, a state court judge in Clayton County, Ga.; and third-year law student Katie Powers, who won the Hugh Lawson Award during her first year.
For winning the award, Steele received $500 and the King & Spalding Cup, an impressive trophy provided by the Atlanta law firm and kept at the law school in which Steele’s name will be engraved. |
