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 Trial Lawyers Association
GAATL promotes law student involvement in courtroom activities and trial work. Law student membership is free. The JMLS chapter annually sponsors seminars and invites prominent trial lawyers to speak to JMLS students about the skills of their craft and the new innovations in the field of litigation.

GAATL also strives to teach students about legal information available on the Internet, from databases to forms and software.

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 (CLSA)
The purpose of the Caribbean Law Students Association (CLSA) is to provide a network for academic and professional mentorship 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 Law Society
The JMLS 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 member1s 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.

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 Club
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 Club
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.

Labor & Employment Law Society
The Labor and Employment Law Society works with the faculty, staff, alumni, and other student organizations to provide information and professional resources to students interested in careers in labor and employment law, to advocate for issues relevant to labor and employment law, to create networking opportunities within the legal community, to plan and organize relevant events and discussion panels, and to provide a forum for students with similar interests.

Lambda Law Society
Lambda Law Society is the alliance of students working to promote equal rights and protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender. Lambda promotes tolerance within the Law School on behalf of the GLBT community. We also work with other student, alumni, and political organizations to advance equal rights. We host legislative leaders, legal scholars, and community activists to foster the gay rights dialogue within the legal community.

We like to show our enthusiasm for diversity by promoting fun and exciting events for our members and the student body. Lambda also serves as a support organization for LGBT students, a resource for professional contacts, and a liaison to the Administration on issues of concern to the LGBT community.

Law Journal
The Law Review is managed entirely by a student board of editors, who solicit, edit, and publish articles and book reviews written by scholars, judges, and practicing attorneys. Almost half of the content of the Law Review is written by students. Membership on the JMLS Law Review provides many opportunities and benefits. Students work together to achieve a high level of analytical and writing skill.

The Law Review also provides students with an opportunity to contribute to the professional literature and to influence the development of the law. Election to the Law Review's board of editors is one of the highest honors a law student can achieve.

Moot Court Board
The Moot Court and Advocacy Board at JMLS is an intensive program of advocacy training in a competitive environment. The program provides students the opportunity to develop written, oral, and team-based advocacy skills. Each year, the Board sends teams across the country to compete against other law schools for top honors. The Moot Court and Advocacy Board has developed a national reputation for its advocacy skills, built on years of hard work and dedicated members.

Phi Alpha Delta
Phi Alpha Delta is the largest law fraternity in the country and is a great organization from which to begin your legal career. The purpose of this fraternity is to form a strong bond uniting students and teachers of the law with members of the Bench and Bar in a fraternal fellowship designed to advance the ideals of liberty and equal justice under law; to stimulate excellence in scholarship; to inspire the virtues of compassion and courage; to foster integrity and professional competence; to promote the welfare of its members; and to encourage their moral, intellectual, and cultural advancement, so that each member may enjoy a lifetime of honorable professional and public service.

Property Law Society
The Real Property Law Society provides an opportunity for students to explore topics in real estate and related real property issues. The Society invites legal practitioners and prominent real estate professionals as guest speakers on various Real Property topics and works closely with the Real Property Law Section of the Georgia State Bar Association (GASBA RPL). GASBA RPL is composed of leading members of the national real estate community. The Society acts as a resource for its by providing editorial assistance for its publication, the Georgia Real Property Law Journal. The Society’s members have the opportunity to publish case summaries and/or articles in this publication and can work directly with members of the GASBA RPL and its Executive Committee in providing research assistance in connection with proposed legislation and other projects.

Prosecutor’s Club
The Prosecutor’s Club provides members with practical knowledge of the skills necessary to practice as a prosecutor, connects members with practicing prosecutors and judges in the regional area in which they plan to practice. It accomplishes this in part by encouraging and advocating membership and participation in local bar associations, and by facilitating discussion, debate and dialogue in an atmosphere where individuals feel free to speak their views.

Public Defenders Club
The Public Defenders Club helps train law students interested in the area of indigent defense. The Club helps mentor future public defenders in how to best serve their clients and how to work within and change the criminal system with regards to indigent defense. The Club also conducts activities that create social awareness and that encourage civic and social responsibility.

Sports and Entertainment Law Society
The JMLS Sports and Entertainment Law Association is a student-run organization that sponsors various sports and entertainment law related events for educational and networking purposes. This organization brings in guest lecturers from major sports and entertainment firms to give lunch talks, collaborates with the Atlanta Association of Young Lawyers and the Atlanta Bar Association to organize workshops and outings, and brings in speakers from major sports law institutes. Its primary goal is to assist aspiring sports and entertainment attorneys in making the necessary connections to secure employment in sports and entertainment law. Its secondary goal is to educate law students about current trends in the sports and entertainment legal market.

Student Animal Legal Defense Fund
The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund is an organization dedicated to promoting the awareness of animal rights and educating the law school community about the legal protection of animal welfare. Its goal is to assist animal rights organizations such as the ASPCA and local animal shelters. SALDF strives to provide opportunities for students to learn more about and explore the field of animal law through panel discussions on campus and community volunteering.

Student Bar Association
All enrolled students at JMLS are automatically members of the Student Bar Association, the School's student government organization. Each year, an executive board is created by the student body. The primary objective of the SBA officers is to bring student viewpoints into the educational process at JMLS. The SBA works to represent all student points of view to the administration and faculty. The SBA’s functions are many and varied, but can be divided into three general categories, academic, service, and social. The SBA sponsors speakers and forums to enhance the learning experience, community service projects to increase social consciousness and responsibility and social events to help students unwind from the pressures of law school.