Alumni Association
The goal of the Student Alumni Association is to facilitate interaction between students and alumni and to enhance the student experience by providing opportunities that strengthen their lifelong loyalty to JMLS. SAA provides unique benefits from networking with alumni, to connecting with other students.
American Bar Association
The ABA is the leading voice of the legal profession in the nation. The ABA’s activities include law school accreditation, continuing legal education for lawyers, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, guidelines on ethics and rules of professional conduct, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public. The ABA also develops programs and publications specifically targeted to help law students succeed in their studies and in building their legal careers.The Law Student Division is concerned with legal education and works with the Section of Legal Education on issues of mutual concern. The division also has an impact on practical and professional skills development and provides assistance in the search for jobs, both during and after graduation from law school. Additionally, the Division offers leadership training, public service opportunities, career development programming, and practical skills competitions.
Asian Law Students Association
Asian Law Student Association (ALSA)was founded in the fall of 2010 by Paul Nam and Wellington Tzou in the hopes to achieve Asian awareness, networking, and community and philanthropy service throughout the greater Atlanta area. The association strives to assist one another in academics through information and accountability, and additionally,each member will receive educational and moral support from the organization as well as possible internship and job opportunities through association’s resources. Also, ALSA accommodates the first year students in adapting to the law school life, and enhance their experience at John Marshall Law School.
Black Law Students Association
The JMLS chapter of the Black Law Students Association was founded in 1971. BLSA's primary purpose is to deal with the special concerns of Black law students and lawyers. The Association acquaints students with the professional opportunities, problems and responsibilities they will have as practicing members of the Bar.
BLSA encourages full participation of all students in the activities of the School of Law. It also attempts to foster closer contact with present members of the legal profession. BLSA has involved itself in numerous activities in the past, including group sessions with visiting high school students, a school sponsored CLE honoring civil rights pioneers, and a pipeline project to increase the presence of minorities in law school and law practice.
Caribbean Law Students Association
The purpose of the Caribbean Law Students Association (CLSA) is to provide a network for academic and professional mentor-ship for law students who are of Caribbean origin, have ties to the region, or have an interest in learning about Caribbean culture and heritage. The Caribbean Law Students Association is committed to providing workshops and programs to benefit our members, the JMLS student body, and the community at large.
Corporate and Business Law Society
The AJMLS Corporate Law Society is a collaborative student union dedicated to providing its members with the opportunity to gain insight in the field of corporate law. We strive to add value towards our members' future legal careers by coordinating programs and networking opportunities that will familiarize them with the daily legal issues encountered by transactional attorneys and expose them to different types of complex transactional work. By providing a forum for students to learn about business law issues and practical guidance from experienced professionals, we can facilitate the expansion of our network in the corporate law community.
Criminal Law Society
The mission of the Criminal Law Society is to provide a forum in which to address the unique legal issues facing the criminal justice system, create opportunities for students interested in criminal law to interact with faculty,practitioners, judges, and community organizations that work in the field, and to empower law graduates to pursue their career goals in criminal law.
The Criminal Law Society is also dedicated to providing a forum for its members and the law school at large to explore current discourse, issues, and interests in different areas of criminal law, including careers and internship opportunities.
Environmental Law Society
The Environmental Law Society brings together students interested in environmental law and policy, and organizes programs and projects such as lectures, curricula, recycling and energy conservation.
The mission of our organization is to promote environmental awareness throughout our school and community, encourage activism in environmental issues, and help give students interested in environmental law a means to meet people working in the area of environmental law while learning more about the career options available in the field.
Federalist Society
The Federalist Society was started in 1982 by law students from Harvard, Yale, Stanford and the University of Chicago. Today there are student chapters at over 100 schools, including an active chapter at JMLS. Two of the founding tenets of the society are that the Constitution should be interpreted in the light in which it was written by the founding fathers, and that judges should interpret the law, not create it.
Georgia Association of Women Lawyers
The John Marshall Law School Chapter is a student chapter of GAWL that was formed in 2004. The mission of the chapter is to educate and inform JMLS students on matters pertaining to their professional interests and status, aid in the administration of justice, to do the things necessary and proper to promote ad advance the objectives of statewide GAWL, and to encourage participation by all members of the chapter.
JMLS is an active chapter that leverages its proximity to the heart of the Atlanta business sector to network, provide programs with depth, and to learn about the law, the practice of law, and the business of law before becoming practicing attorneys.
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
The Student Chapter of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association (SGTLA) is dedicated to assisting the collective membership of GTLA in strengthening and upholding Georgia’s civil justice system and protecting the rights of Georgia citizens and consumers. SGTLA exists to offer encouragement and support to every student who is interested in advocacy and upholding Georgia’s civil justice system and protecting the rights of Georgia citizens and consumers. Further, SGTLA works in conjunction with the members of GTLA to ensure that Georgians know and understand the importance of their rights to justice and to make certain that these rights, which are at the very core of what it means to be American, are safeguarded and protected.
Health Law Society
The mission of the Health Law Society is to create a venue in which students and professionals may gain exposure to the legal aspects of the expanding health care industry. The Health Law Society promotes exposure to this growing area of law through meetings, guest speakers, discussions and other various activities open to all interested students and professionals.
Immigration Law Society
The Immigration Law Society is a law student organization dedicated to meeting the need for greater awareness, support and dissemination of timely information that relates to current federal immigration laws and policies to members of the JMLS community and those individuals seeking asylum, temporary or permanent residency, or citizenship in the United States. The Immigration Law Club also seeks to bring together immigration law attorneys and judges, Atlanta-area law students, and legal workers and community advocates in the Atlanta area to serve the growing Metropolitan Atlanta immigrant population.
Intellectual Property Society
The Intellectual Property Club seeks to encourage and promote student interest in intellectual property law. In addition to providing a forum for the exchange of information and ideas in intellectual property law, the Intellectual Property Club sponsors speakers, seminars, and conferences that cover a wide variety of current topics in patent, trademark, and copyright law. The organization also participates in events sponsored by counterpart organizations at other area law schools.
International Law Students Association
The International Law Students' Association is a non-profit association of students and lawyers who are dedicated to the promotion of international law. ILSA provides students with opportunities to study, research, and network in the international legal arena. The organization's activities include academic conferences, publications, the global coordination of student organizations, and the administration of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
Jewish Law Students Association
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