School of Law Announces 2022-23 LeMay Business Law Fellows

Third-year legislation learners Anna Cunningham and T. Austin Simmons have been picked as the 2022-23 Ron and Casondra LeMay Business Regulation Fellows. They were chosen dependent on their interest in and dedication to organization regulation, sizeable leadership probable and prior efficiency within the organization legislation application.

Cunningham and Simmons will serve as student leaders of the law school’s Business enterprise Regulation Focus Program and Company Legislation Society, both of which are advised by Arkansas Bar Basis Professor of Law, Will Foster and College Professor and Clayton N. Very little Professor of Legislation, Carol Goforth. They will show up at outreach functions with other legislation students, participate in software choices, aid with recruitment of regulation college students for the business enterprise law software, help with the program’s social media presence and interact in setting up and investigate linked to the application. Each and every will obtain a $1,000 stipend. 

“I am delighted Anna and Austin received this recognition for their crucial perform with the enterprise legislation program,” Foster reported. “I look ahead to collaborating with them and the business regulation faculty as we keep on to craft opportunities for learners to produce further insights into representing firms and business owners.”

The Ron and Casondra LeMay Enterprise Legislation Fellowship was recognized to acknowledge and assistance exemplary regulation students dedicated to business regulation. It also seeks to boost the business regulation plan to all legislation learners.

Anna Cunningham

“I am honored to have the prospect to function along with Austin, professor Goforth and professor Foster as a LeMay Enterprise Legislation Fellow” Cunningham stated. “I appear ahead to serving my fellow pupils by growing business enterprise law programming at our college and by making a lot more options for progress and mastering.”

Cunningham is the president of the Business Legislation Society, content editor of the Journal of Meals Legislation and Policy, group support chair of the Women’s Regulation College student Association, and a member of Board of Advocates. She is also the receiver of the Louis L. Pettit Chancellor’s Law Fellowship and the 2022 Kaitlin LaBuda Award.  The Kaitlin LaBuda Award is presented each year to a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Food Law and Policy to identify cheerful and constructive management.

T. Austin Simmons

“I am thrilled to be equipped to operate together with Anna and professors Will Foster and Carol Goforth this university year,” Simmons mentioned. “The LeMay Business Regulation Fellowship will permit me to converse with each college and pupils concerning our business enterprise legislation software. My aim is for these communications to guide to continued marketing of our business regulation alternatives as properly as progressive answers that will create lengthy-term advancement for the small business law program.”

Simmons is the vice president of the Company Legislation Society, symposium editor for the Arkansas Regulation Review, and is energetic in the Christian Legal Culture. Simmons retains the Accredited General public Accountant designation, pending assembly the work expertise necessities upon graduation.

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