Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution
The Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution seeks to improve
the training of litigators through the College of Law curriculum,
faculty and student scholarship, and presentations for the bar and
community, both regionally and nationwide. The Center for Advocacy
and Dispute Resolution activities include the following:
- The Advocacy Concentration,
a curricular pathway for law students at the College of Law who
are interested in careers in litigation, trial and appellate advocacy,
and alternative dispute resolution. Many of the College's faculty
have practiced with prestigious law firms in their litigation
and trial groups and are uniquely qualified to mold a curriculum
that merges practical dispute resolution experience with sophisticated
analysis of the latest in statutory and common law, theory, and
policy.
- Law Review Symposium: Each
year the Center, along with the Tennessee Law Review, brings
to the school scholars, practitioners from the bench and bar,
and other national figures to teach, present a CLE, and write
journal articles for a law review symposium issue. This year's
symposium issue is entitled "Damages in Tort Law." More information on previous programs is available
here.
- Lectures for students, professionals,
and the public on topics relating to trial advocacy, litigation,
and alternative dispute resolution.
- A nationally recognized Legal
Clinic provides an exceptional curriculum-related experience
for the members of the Advocacy Concentration.
The founders of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute
Resolution are Donna R. Davis; Sidney W. Gilreath; Frankie E. Wade
& T. Robert Hill; Thomas R. Prewitt, Sr.; Robert E. Pryor and Family;
John T. Milburn Rogers; Bass, Berry & Sims PLC; and Jerry H. Summers.
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