Professor Jack Sammons is the Griffin B. Bell
Professor of Law at the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer
University, where he has also served in the past as Director of
Clinical Education and Associate Dean. A graduate of the universities
of Georgia, Duke, and Antioch, he has done post graduate work
in professional ethics at the University of Nebraska. Professor
Sammons is the author of Lawyer Professionalism, published
by the Carolina Academic Press, and over twenty-five articles,
two videos, and one commissioned play on the subjects of legal
ethics, professional ethics, legal history, legal education and
law and religion. A frequent speaker at law schools, continuing
legal education programs, and academic organizations, Professor
Sammons was a founding member of the Chief Justice's Commission
on Professionalism and served as Vice Chair of the Georgia
Formal Advisory Opinion Board. He serves as a consultant
on curricula matters to several law schools, a reviewer for several
publishers, and as an editor of the Journal of Southern Legal
History. Professor Sammons also is serving as a member of the State Bar of Georgia Task Force on Lawyer Advertising, as a member of the Committee on Ethical Judicial Campaigns, and as a member of the Georgia Death Penalty Assessment Team.
Professor Patrick Longan has taught at Mercer
since 2000. Professor Longan is a 1983 graduate of the University
of Chicago Law School, which he attended after obtaining his undergraduate
degree from Washington University in St. Louis and his Master's
degree from the University of Sussex. Upon graduation from law
school, Professor Longan clerked for Bernard M. Decker, Senior
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois.
After the clerkship, Professor Longan practiced law in Dallas,
Texas for seven years, primarily with the firm of Andrews &
Kurth. Professor Longan joined the faculty of Stetson University
College of Law in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1991 and taught at
Stetson for nine years before coming to Mercer. At Mercer, Professor
Longan teaches Law of Lawyering and The Legal Profession.
He also supervises the law school's judicial internship program
and serves as a member of the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism,
as an advisor to the State Bar of Georgia's Committee on Professionalism, and as Administrator for the William A. Bootle Inn
of Court in Macon.
Professor David Hricik joined the Mercer faculty
in 2002. Professor Hricik received his B.A. degree in 1984 from
the University of Arizona and his J.D. in 1988 from Northwestern
University School of Law. He practiced law in Texas from 1988
to 2002, as an associate and as special counsel with Baker &
Botts, as a partner in Slusser & Frost, and in an of counsel
capacity with Yetter & Warden. While he was in practice, Professor
Hricik taught courses at the University of Houston Law Center,
the University of Texas School of Law and the St. Edwards University
Graduate School of Management. He also served as Chair of the
Ethics & Professional Responsibility Committee of the Intellectual
Property Section of the American Bar Association and as a member
of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Committee
of the State Bar of Texas. At Mercer, Professor Hricik teaches
Civil Procedure, Patent Law & Litigation, Law of Lawyering,
Remedies, and Property.
Professor Timothy W. Floyd joined the Mercer faculty in 2006
as Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Public Service Program.
He received B.A and M.A. from Emory University and his J.D from the
University of Georgia, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Georgia
Law Review. Professor Floyd began his career in legal education in 1982 at the
University of Georgia School of Law, as Associate Director and then
Director of the Legal Aid Clinic. He was on the faculty of Texas Tech
University School of Law from 1989 to 2004, becoming the J. Hadley Edgar
Professor of Law and Co-Director of Clinical Programs. He has published
two books and is the author of numerous articles in the area of legal
ethics, law and religion, and criminal law and the death penalty. Professor Floyd
served as editor of the Faith and Law Symposium issue of the Texas Tech
Law Review, and he is the co-editor of the book Can A Good Christian Be
A Good Lawyer? Homilies, Witnesses, and Reflections. His service activities
emphasize access to justice issues and lawyer professionalism. He is a
member of the Supreme Court of Georgia Equal Justice Commission, the
National Advisory Committee of Equal Justice Works, and is Chair of
the Advisory Board of the Georgia Council for Restorative Justice. Professor Floyd
chaired the Supreme Court of Texas Lawyer Grievance Oversight Committee
and was one of the principal drafters of the Texas Rules of Disciplinary
Procedure. He also served for many years on the State Bar of Texas
Professionalism Committee.
