The Contracts Mock exam will be held in Room 230 of Urban Life from 8:30am-noon on October 13 2012.

• Waking up in the morning on a Saturday (a hassle),

• Paying $40 to take a test (a hassle),

• Getting feedback from a professor (scary), but

• Figuring out what you don’t know before exams is priceless.

• Exam is free for BLSA members who have paid their dues
 

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. is pleased to offer the Donald W. Banner Diversity Scholarship for law students. This scholarship is part of Banner & Witcoff’s continuing commitment to fostering the development of intellectual property lawyers from diverse backgrounds.

The Donald W. Banner Diversity Scholarship is open to all students currently enrolled in an American Bar Association accredited law school and pursuing a career in intellectual property law. The applicant must be a member of a historically underrepresented group (including race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability) and

must have exemplary writing and oral communication skills.

For more information about the scholarship, please visit www.bannerwitcoff.com/diversity.
 

Save the Date! The 45th Annual NBLSA Convention at the Westin Peachtree Plaza.

March 5th - March 10th 2013

For more info contact 2013convention@nblsa.org

The BLSA RWA Workshop will be coming up October 3rd at 12pm in Room 658 in the Urban Life Building, Professor Slovensky and a bevy (in this sense, bevy means at least 3) of RWA Cali recipients will be in attendance.

The SELC's summer internship deadline is October 15 for 2Ls, early January for 1Ls. Additionally, the SELC is now part of the GSU externship program for part-time students only. The SELC hopes that by next year their externships will be for full and part-time students.

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Dawn Jones is a 2000 Georgia State College of Law Alumni. She currently works for King and Spalding LLP with a focus area in Product Liability Defense, primarily pharmaceutical products. Ms. Jones cherishes her experience in this particular field because it gives her the opportunity to utilize her background as a critical care nurse to develop defense strategies for her clients. Ms. Jones attributes much of her success in the legal community to the strong support of her classmates and professors.

Ms. Jones’ involvement extends outside just the legal community. The senior attorney at King and Spalding LLP gives back to the community by serving on the Board of Directors for several non-profit organizations. This includes highlighting and financially supporting the organization’s initiatives, while helping to find pro bono attorneys to handle their cases. She also promotes efforts to help Black law students succeed including an annual academic retreat sponsored by the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys and the Gate City Bar Association.

Ms. Jones has received several prestigious awards since graduating from the College of Law including: recognition as one of Georgia’s “Rising Stars” in the legal profession by Atlanta Magazine (2005, 2007, 2009, 2010), Gate City Bar Association R. Pruden Herndon Service Award (2010), GSU College of Law Service to the College of Law Award (2009), Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys Spirit of GABWA Award (2009), and Atlanta Bar Association Professionalism Award, as member of Lincoln on Professionalism CLE Planning Committee (2009).

Advice that Ms. Jones gives all first year students is that “In today’s times, it’s even more important to network and build relationships, which begin on the first day of law school. It’s highly likely that your classmates will become judges you appear before, opposing counsel you contend with, sources of referral for your practice, and/or colleagues you work with. Keep that in mind, and know that it’s never too early to network. Those relationships will pay off for you all in the end.”

We are certainly proud of Dawn Jones’ positive impact on our organization as well as society. BLSA would like to thank her for taking the time to be a part of this newsletter.
 

By: Paetria Hampton

Haniyah J. Miller is one of our outstanding GSU Law Students and is also a critical member of our BLSA Student Organization.

Presently, Haniyah is a third-year law student at Georgia State University School of Law and the former vice president of the Georgia State University BLSA chapter. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the SRBLSA Law Journal. She previously served as a student attorney in the Low Income Tax Clinic defending impoverished clients against the Internal Revenue Service. She has received both the Georgia Association of Black Woman Attorneys Scholarship and the Gate City Bar Association Foundation Scholarship for 2009. Haniyah also served as a member of the board of directors for a non-profit, Alternate Life Paths Program as well as the Student Member-at-Large for the Georgia Association of Black Woman Attorneys. She currently works for the CEO of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority as a legal intern. For the summer of 2010, Haniyah interned for Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams and now clerks for Georgia Supreme Court Justice Robert Benham, the first African-American Georgia Supreme Court Justice.

Haniyah J. Miller attributes her drive, dedication, and success to her family, living by the Winston Churchill mantra, “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained”. She is truly a leader and a model GSU law student.
 

By Tamarra Wood