LAW DAWGS SCORE VICTORY OVER FLORIDA

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Monday, November 1, 1999

WRITER: Matt Haney, (706) 542-5172

CONTACT: Bill Weber, Director of Advocacy, (706) 542-2739

LAW DAWGS SCORE VICTORY OVER FLORIDA

ATHENS, Ga. - The Bulldogs may not have carried the day on the gridiron, but they did in the courtroom. The University of Georgia School of Law team of Shannon Drake and Julie Wade Mickle won the Hulsey-Kimbrell Moot Court Competition in Jacksonville over a team from the University of Florida.

The Hulsey-Kimbrell Competition occurs annually between the University of Georgia and the University of Florida, and coincides with the Georgia-Florida football game. This was the 18th year that moot court teams from the two schools faced off in the annual classic. The problem for this year's competition involved the firing of a college professor and his claims of violations of the First Amendment and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

"I was confident about the talents of Julie Wade and Shannon Drake before the competition, and after hearing them respond so effectively to the panel's unrelenting questions, I knew that Florida's advocates did not have much of a chance," said UGA School of Law Dean David Shipley

Third-year law students Drake and Mickle successfully argued the case before a distinguished panel of federal judges: Senior Judge Anthony A. Alaimo, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia; Chief Judge B. Avant Edenfield, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia; Senior District Judge John H. Moore II, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida; District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida; and Chief Judge Emeritus Gerald Bard Tjoflat, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

With this year's victory, the UGA Law Dawgs continued their domination of the moot court competition that included a 10-year winning streak from 1988 to 1997. UGA's record versus UF now stands at: 12-4-2.

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