GW Law's Student Bar Association (SBA) was presented with the Membership and Activity Award during the American Bar Association's (ABA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, which took place from August 2-7. The award recognizes outstanding ABA membership efforts, involvement, and activity of ABA-approved law schools in the ABA Law Student Division.
"GW Law had a productive year working with the ABA," said Meredith Parnell, 2017-2018 Law Student at Large on the ABA Board of Governors and a recent graduate of Harvard Law School. "Their SBA secured funding to sponsor 10 students to attend the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution's Negotiation Institute. Their Antitrust Law Association held a practitioner panel in partnership with the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, and several GW Law students attended Antitrust Law's fall meeting. Their ABA rep was asked to serve as a student ambassador for the group's spring meeting and worked with the Young Lawyers Division. They also hosted a public-sector careers panel in January. They are working toward more collaboration, and we hope their work is an example all schools will follow."
Rising 3L and SBA President Ali Kingston shared that the organization's administration put "a great deal of effort" into sharing the resources the ABA has to offer to students. "Taryn Sanders [rising 3L] and Anne Jefferson [JD '18] worked tirelessly to ensure our students had access to all of those resources," she said. "It was an absolute honor to be able to accept this award, and I am so proud that their hard work was recognized by the ABA Law Student Division. I look forward to growing our ABA membership even more this year, and hopefully bringing back another award next summer."
The ABA Law Student Division represents 110,000 law students at all ABA-accredited law schools, as well as recent law school graduates. For more information about the Law Student Division, visit this page.