Attorneys bring ‘wealth of experience’ to classroom

Legal news story for The Memphis Daily News

Nov. 12, 2010

With a collective 126 years of working legal knowledge among them, three of the top lawyers in the city are pleased to be sharing their experiences with students at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.

Those attorneys are Leo Bearman, Albert Harvey and Hunter Humphreys, and they are three of 40 area attorneys and judges leaving their briefs and briefcases in the office at the end of the day to don the guise of teacher.

“Our program would not be nearly as strong as it is without the support of local judges and attorneys,” said Kevin Smith, dean of the law school. “They bring a wealth of experience from practice to the classroom.”

In addition to the adjunct professors, the law school has 24 regular faculty members. One of the most crucial sections for adjunct faculty is the legal methods course where a professor will work with a handful of students to teach the intricacies of brief writing. It is a more writing-intensive class with the professor taking the lecture material and readings and going into detail about them … (read more)