Congratulations to Carson Alexander (J.D.'17) and Wil Alexander (J.D.'16), who were the top-ranking School of Law graduates in the 2025 Bulldog 100 list. Their business, Alexander & Alexander Attorneys at Law, was ranked 27th in the UGA Alumni Association list of honorees. Other School of Law alums to make the list were Adrian Pandev (J.D.’16) with Pandev Law at 33, Lindsey Cambardella (J.D.’12) and Jeremy Stallman (J.D.’09) with Translation Station at 39, Benjamin Osorio (J.D.’11) with Murray Osorio at 49, Brandon Barron (J.D.’99) with Southern Commercial Roof Tech at 64, and Charlie Thompson (J.D.’03) with ASW Distillery at 92. The Bulldog 100 annually honors “the 100 fastest-growing businesses owned or led by UGA alums.”
Congratulations to second-year student Allison L. Brown for designing and training the first-place prompt in the inaugural MIT AI Negotiation Competition's Value Created category. Brown's prompt won against entries from more than 25 countries that engaged in an estimated 250,000 negotiations. The MIT AI Negotiation Competition is a project of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy that is incorporating Large Language Models into the field's history of computer-based tournaments. Brown and her fellow negotiation advocacy team members prepared for the tournament with Faculty Coach Daniel S. Serviansky.
Congratulations to Dean Usha R. Rodrigues for receiving the 2025 Han C. Choi Mentor Award from the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association at the 2025 Lunar New Year Banquet and Leadership Installation. The award recognizes members of the legal profession who demonstrate a remarkable commitment to mentoring the next generation.
First-year law student Eric S. Gulbranson is the winner of the School of Law’s 2025 J. Ralph Beaird 1L Closing Argument Competition. Congratulations to all who competed, including finalist Lisa R. Calvert, on their performances.
Congratulations to third-year students Mona E. Abboud, Taylor L. Stablein and Casey E. Wofford for finishing as semifinalists at the National Moot Court Competition in New York City, finishing among the top four teams in the nation. The team also earned honors for having the second-best brief score out of 32 teams. Notably, Abboud, Stablein and Wofford went undefeated in their regional in Atlanta in November to qualify for the national tier of the tournament.