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Events
Reading Days
24 & 30 November
Thanksgiving Holiday - No Classes
25-27 November
Final Exams Begin
1 December
Aiken Alumni Reception
3 December
Atlanta Alumni Reception
7 December
Final Exams End
11 December
Law School Hooding Ceremony
12 December
University Commencement
14 December
2010 COMPLEAT Lawyer Awards Nominations Deadline
14 December

A Welcome Message from Dean Pratt

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Student Life
Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 School of Law Mock Trial Competition, held the evening of November 10. The winning team and recipient of the D. Reece Williams III Award is James Brogdon and John Linton. The best individual advocate and winner of the Robert McC. Figg, Jr., Award is James Brogdon.

Information about and links from November 4th's Loan Forgiveness & Student Debt Relief Presentation are available for anyone who is graduating from law school with high student debt, or for those who are contemplating work for the government or a non-profit employer.

Faculty Spotlight
Professors Martin C. McWilliams, Jr. and Jaclyn Cherry will be speaking at the 2009 South Carolina Nonprofit Legal Symposium on Tuesday, December 8, 2009. McWilliams will be speaking on the SC Nonprofit Corporation Act and Cherry will be talking about legal issues and nonprofit social enterprise. For more information about the event, visit the SC Association of Nonprofit Organizations website. For more CLE events, visit the SC Bar website.

Jan Baker Legal Writing Instructor Jan Baker teaches Legal Writing I & II, and Consumer Bankruptcy Drafting. She is an author, a frequent lecturer and a frequent moderator at seminars focusing on Legal Writing, Legal Citation, and Bankruptcy Practice.

Alumni News
Lorri Unumb Lorri Unumb (JD, 1993) Wins National Award for Autism Advocacy: Mother Who Initiated “Ryan’s Law” Autism Insurance Coverage for South Carolina Children Recognized by Town & Country Magazine

Nota Bene
Perspectives on Justice, October 30-31. This exciting symposium brought together nationally recognized scholars to address contemporary social justice issues.

SBA President Ryan Whicker with the Honorables Clyde H. Hamilton, William B. Traxler, and J. Harvie Wilkinson, III
The South Carolina Law Review held its 2009 symposium, “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: Its Tradition, Its Jurisprudence, and Its Future,” on October 15 and 16 at the School of Law.

In September, Coleman Karesh Law Library welcomed faculty members visiting from the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia .