Law Student Book Awards
This award is given to the top graduating student from each of the eight Virginia law schools. In conjunction with the Dean of each law school the Family Law professor chooses the graduate who has demonstrated the most promise and potential for the practice of family law to be the recipient of this award.
Thomson West provides complimentary inscribed copies of their publication Virginia Practice Series – Family Law: Theory, Practice, and Forms by Swisher, Diehl, and Cottrell. The Board of Governors is appreciative of Principal Attorney Editor John S. Bloomquist and Directors Daniel S. Eckert and Richard Brown for making this book award possible. We provide a beautifully framed certificate to accompany the book, and the award is presented to the student at the law school’s graduation ceremonies.
The awards for the law students who demonstrated great promise and potential in the practice of Family Law, are as follows for 2008-2009:
Robert Black of Appalachian Law School
Carolyn M. Abbate of George Mason Law School
Danielle Leigh Keller & Christina Renee de Vries of Regent University Law School
William Martin Jarrard of University of Richmond Law School
Elizabeth-Ann Dater Katz of University of Virginia Law School
Bridget Marie Tainer-Parkins of Washington & Lee Law School
Erin Rose McNeill of William & Mary Law School
Crystal Lawrence of Liberty Law School