Posts Tagged ‘Charleston Law’

The next time you tell a lawyer joke, you might want to consider the other side of the story.

In the five years that the Charleston School of Law has been in existence, its students have donated more than 100,000 hours of free legal service to people all across South Carolina and the nation.

That’s equivalent to 50 people working full time for a year. Which is what the Charleston School of Law is all about. Its motto, in fact, is “pro bono populi,” which means “for the good of the people.”

Each law student at the Charleston school is required to complete at least 30 hours of pro bono service in order to graduate. But most of the 600 future lawyers enrolled here contribute much more than that, according to Michelle Condon, director of public service and pro bono at the school.

“Our pro bono program is a win-win-win situation for everyone involved,” Condon said. “Our students get valuable legal experience; the sites win because they get much-needed legal help; and the community wins because it gets an increased amount of services.”

[Post and Courier]

The Charleston School of Law has launched a newly redesigned Web site at www.charlestonlaw.edu. The new site went live Tuesday.

“The look and the feel of the Web site was developed to make it a lot more user-friendly, particularly to prospective students,” said spokesman Andy Brack.

A new search function and drop down menus were added. From the other end, the Web site switched over to a content management system, which makes it easier for different departments to load and update content, Brack said.

Dean Andy Abrams said, “Our new and improved Web site is the culmination of a tremendous amount of time and effort by a large number of dedicated individuals who have worked over the past year to design, develop and launch a site that is user-friendly, comprehensive and professional.”

[Charleston School of Law]

The Charleston School of Law announced today that Mark E. Hoch will serve as its first assistant dean for academic success.

Charleston School of Law hires assistant dean In the position, Hoch will help students learn and perform better while in law school, said Dean Andy Abrams. Hoch will start in August.

Since 2002, Hoch has been an assistant professor of professional practice and legal writing at Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center.

While at LSU, Hoch received national attention for his melding of teaching and technology, especially pioneering the use of digital video annotation software for oral argument feedback.

[Charleston Regional Business Journal]

The Charleston School of Law has named a new associate dean. Law school dean Andy Abrams says Lisa Smith-Butler will become the school’s associate dean for library and information technology on June 29. Smith-Butler comes to the Charleston law school from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where she is the associate dean of the law library and technology center.

[The State]