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The Veterans Legal Clinic was featured by National Jurist regarding its service to Georgia’s veterans. The School of Law was included in the publication’s “Top law schools for government law.” The article was published 3/18/26. 

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Eleven projects promoting cross-disciplinary research across the University of Georgia have been awarded 2025 Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grants, including a team with Clinical Assistant Professor and Land Conservation Clinic Director Steffney R. Thompson. 

Pictured are (l. to r.) Kate Branch, Divya Kishore, Holly Pierson, Anna Grace Rogers and Lisa Calvert while in Brooklyn for the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition.

Congratulations to second-year students Divya Kishore and Anna G. “Anna Grace” Rogers, along with Katherine H. “Kate” Branch and Lisa R. Calvert, whose teams both went undefeated and won the American Bar Association’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition regional tournament held this past weekend in Brooklyn. Branch and Calvert won the award for the best brief while Calvert and Kishore were recognized as top oralists. They will represent UGA at the national tier of this tournament in Chicago during April. 

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Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured by KWAY’s “The Breakfast Club with Matt and Taylor” regarding her new book, The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America’s Lawsuit Factory (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2026). The segment was broadcast 2/20/26. 

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Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured by Bloomberg Law regarding recent Johnson & Johnson talc litigation. The article titled “Beasley Allen Ethics Showdown Rattles J&J Talc Litigation” was written by Alex Ebert and Alex Wolf and was published 3/2/26.