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Fall 2006

HOLIDAY GIFTS Second-year student Evan Watson hoists one of more than 30 new bikes that are holiday gifts for elementary students at a nearby school. Members of the Black Law Students Association and the Children's Law & Family Rights Society collected more than 1,200 gifts that were delivered by Santa, Charleston fire-fighters and students on Dec. 11.	CHIEF JUSTICE VISITS Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. spoke to about 1,000 Charleston School of Law students and area lawyers in October. News coverage: WCIV TV \| Associated Press \| Post and Courier
LAW SCHOOL ACCREDITED! Third-year student Courtney Gibbes hangs a poster outside the school after it won ABA accreditation over the weekend. More: News release \| Post and Courier \| WLTX TV	PROFESSIONALISM SERIES Columbia lawyer Steve Benjamin, right, talks with students following a Sept. 27 presentation for the school's professionalism series.
PROFESSIONALISM SERIES U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie of Columbia talks with senior U.S. District Judge Sol Blatt Jr. before her professionalism series lecture in early November.	CONSTITUTION DAY Duke University Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky spoke Sept. 18 to students to celebrate Constitution Day. Chemerinsky, pictured above with Charleston School of Law Professor John Simpkins , outlined changes at the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years. More.
BAR REVIEW UNDERWAY OCT. 30 -- Third-year students at the school have started preparing to take the Bar with review courses running all week. (Photo by Sherry Martschink)	WILKINS SPEAKS AT CSOL Chief Judge William W. Wilkins of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Sept. 14 delivered a major speech on legal, political and social implications of the death penalty in modern society. More.
BUDDY WALK Third-year student Drew Richardson (L) assists with registration at the Down Syndrome Association of the Lowcountry’s 3rd annual Buddy Walk on Daniel Island on Sunday, Oct. 1st. Members of the Law Democrats volunteer at the Buddy Walk each year as part of the organization’s community service. (Photo by Mike McCauley)	STUDENTS MEET BIDEN Students Dina Singleton-Brown (l) and Chisa Putman (r) share a laugh with U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-DE, at the 90th Annual NAACP Freedom Fund banquet on August 26. The school was a sponsor of the event for which Biden gave keynote remarks.
JUSTICE TOAL SPEAKS S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal (l) talks with a student on the opening day of classes, Aug. 17. Toal gave a speech on legal professionalism at Gailliard Auditorium that was attended by the school's 600 students.	GETTING READY Third-year student Ariel Pitman and Kathy Heape unpack items for the law school store in preparation for orientation and beginning of classes, which start Aug. 17.

Spring 2006

AWARD WINNER Second-year student Jeff Yungman has won a prestigious $2,500 American Bar Association fellowship. In the photo above, he is being interviewed by the Post and Courier's Diane Knich. Read more \| Story	REVERSE MENTORING As part of the Technology Law Society’s “Reverse Mentoring Program,” student Barbara Holmes shows Hon. Louis Condon how to use some of the features and functions on his computer. This projects pairs CSOL students with local attorneys who would like some basic computer training, and will be implemented in the Fall of 2006. (Photograph by Brandon D’Agostino, president, Technology Law Society)
BIG VISIT Students from Prof. Lorri Unumb's Federal Courts class visited Washington, D.C., in March and visited with Ann O'Connell, a law clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts. Above, Unumb (l) and O'Connell are seated in a Supreme Court conference room. (Photo provided.)	SCHOLARSHIP WINNER Second-year student Sabrina Williams, center, in April won a $1,000 scholarship from the National Association of Women Judges during a program sponsored by the NAWJ and Black Law Student Association. The NAWJ's "Color of Justice" program seeks to encourage girls and minority high school students to consider pursuing careers in the law and judiciary. Pictured with Williams are Judge Linda Murnane of the NAWJ and John Benfield, associate dean of the law school. (Photo by Richardine Singleton-Brown.)
MOOT COURT TRIP The Charleston School of Law sent two teams in early March to Columbia University in New York to participate in an American Constitution Society moot court competition. Pictured above are students Alex Sparra, Glenn Justice, Prof. Allyson Haynes (their coach), Laura Loder and Kip Dillihay.	SCTLA AWARD The S.C. Trial Lawyers Association presented a $5,000 check to the school's foundation recently. Pictured above are SCTLA Executive Director Linda Franklin, SCTLA President Gerald Malloy, S.C. Circuit Judge Casey Manning and Dean Richard Gershon. The award came from funds left over from a portrait of Manning commissioned by SCTLA.
SUPREME EFFORT Students from the Charleston School of Law on a moot court board field trip in Washington, D.C., stopped by the U.S. Supreme Court for a snapshot. Everyone might be hard to see but they are (left to right): FitzLee McEachin, Rett Matthews, Bert Pickens, Dabny Lynn, Charles Marchbanks, John Robinson, Elizabeth Dyal, Drew Richardson, Kristin LeBlanc, Margie Pizzaro, Kathleen King, Eric Rowell, Amanda Lackland, Brooks Derrick, Brad Banias, Charles Dulaney, Lorri Unumb and Sharon Ward. (Photo submitted by Charles Marchbanks.)	AGREEMENT SIGNED T. Patton Adams, executive director of the S.C. Commission on Indigent Defense, and Dean Richard Gershon of the Charleston School of Law sign a historic agreement to allow law students to serve as externs in public defender offices across the state. Click to read more. Also pictured in the back row (l-r) are Professor Elizabeth McCullough; Commission member Robert L. Kilgo Jr., chief public defender in Darlington County; Commission member and attorney James D. Myrick of Charleston; and Derek J. Enderlin of Walhalla, the Oconee County chief public defender who also serves on the Commission.