Mercer has been named by National Jurist Magazine as among the top 50 schools on a list entitled "Where Public Interest Lawyers Go to Law School."  Mercer is listed at number 41.  The March 2008 edition of the magazine, in which the article appears, is available at www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cypress/nationaljurist0308/index.php  Information about Mercer's Law and Public Service program is available at www.law.mercer.edu/academics/service/

The Legal Writing Program at the Walter F. George School of Law of Mercer University is again the top-ranked program among all of the law schools in the nation as announced today by U.S. News and World Report. The 2009 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools lists Mercer’s program first in the country after being tied for first with Seattle University in 2006, second in 2007 and first in 2008. Seattle this year is ranked second, followed by University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Temple University, John Marshall Law School, Stetson University, Boston College, Northwestern University, Brooklyn Law School and the University of Oregon.

The specialty ranking, begun by U.S. News in 2006, is voted on by legal writing directors throughout the country, reflecting the opinion of those with specialized knowledge.

Overall, the Mercer Law School remains among The Top 100 Law Schools in the country, tying four other schools at that mark – Stetson University, Syracuse University, University of Buffalo-SUNY and University of Louisville. This is the fifth consecutive year the Mercer Law School has been among the top 100 in the country. Founded in 1873, it is one of the oldest law schools in the country.

On Wednesday, February 27, 2008, the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) of the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University cosponsored with Suntrust Bank and the Macon Bar Association in presenting the movie: Summer Hill, A story of Community.  The screening was a black history month presentation by the Historic Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia.

The Summer Hill project documents and interprets the history and culture of Summer Hill, a historically predominate African American neighborhood that formed just outside of Cartersville, Georgia in the late 1800s.  Summer Hill native son, Justice Robert Benham, the first African American Justice and Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, was featured in the movie and led a discussion after the screening.

Pictured is Supreme Court Justice Benham (center) and BLSA Students.

Learn more about Mercer's Black Law Students Association . . .