Charleston School of Law

Movin on Up, to the East Side.
The Charleston School of Law's Dean Richard Gershon just inked a deal to expand the school's square footage. Click here for the Post&Courier's article.

The reason for the move of course is two fold: first the ABA Accreditation Committee is coming back in April to give the school another review for their “provisional accreditation” (which could be granted on June 10th-stay tuned) and the Bell South building’s 85,000 sq feet would accommodate the growing student body better than their current limited 24,000 square feet in the Mary Street building. Secondly, students paying $30,000 a year in tuition deserve better digs then the back end of the Music Farm.

I am Sailing Away: Other Charleston School of Law news is the opening of the new Charleston Maritime Law Institute chaired by Professor Randall Bridwell. It is a natural decision for CSOL to have a Maritime program, especially since Charleston is a major port city on the east coast and has access to prominent attorneys from Charleston and Savannah. One of the Bushido’s pals, Paul Tecklenburg, is on the Advisory board. Yes, I did my part two and donated 2-sets of Maritime Law books.
Click here to view the Charleston Maritime Institutes first “Malabu” bulletin

Moot Point: To demonstrate the level of talent the Charleston Law School is attracting one has to look no further than the results from the American Center for Law and Justice's Moot Court Competition. This was the first Moot Court CSOL students had competed in and they brought home a win on their first try. They argued a hypothetical case involving privacy rights-whether the state had the ability to extend a nasal-gastric tube (ouch) into the stomach of a (female) death-row inmate. The Charleston School of Law students went up against some of the biggest "future" hired-guns from the best law schools in the country and knocked their first pitch out of the park. Congrats to the students at CSOL and their advisor Professor Form and Pulchritude Lorri Unumb.

You are always lecturing me! Finally, here is the list of speakers and dates of their addresses for CSOL’s Lecture Series which will be held in the Charleston Museum’s auditorium-360 Meeting Street, Charleston:

March 1, 2006, 5 p.m.: Attorney Timothy W. Bouch of Charleston’s Leath, Bouch and Crawford, who chairs the S.C. Supreme Court's Rules Commission, will discuss ethics and the legal profession.

March 22, 2006, noon: U.S. District Judge David Norton will discuss professionalism and the federal courts.

April 5, 2006, 5 p.m.: Columbia attorney Zoe Sanders Nettles will discuss professionalism and women in law.