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Cumberland School of Law

Established	July 29, 1847
Type	Private
Dean	John L. Carroll
Faculty	27 full time, 3 instructors, 43 adjunct
Students	533
Location	Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Publications	The Cumberland Law Review, The American Journal of Trial Advocacy
Mascot	Rascal
Website	http://cumberland.samford.edu/

This institution is unrelated to the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky.

Justice Tempered by Mercy

Cumberland School of Law is an ABA accredited law school located in Birmingham, Alabama. It was founded on July 29, 1847 in Lebanon, Tennessee at Cumberland University. It is now located at Samford University. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools existed in the United States, making Cumberland one of the oldest in the country. Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... Cumberland School of Laws Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics is a research center located in Birmingham, Alabama at Samford University. ... Image File history File links Cumberland_School_of_Law_Logo. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A private university is a university that is run without the control of any government entity. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ... Judge John Carroll, dean of Cumberland, gives an address at Cumberlands 2006 graduation ceremony. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... Nickname: The Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, BHam, The Ham Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates: Country United States State Alabama County Jefferson, Shelby Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Area    - City 151. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km²)  - Width 190 miles (306 km)  - Length 330 miles (531 km)  - % water 3. ... The Cumberland Law Review[1] was founded in 1970 at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. ... Mascots at the Mascot Olympics in Orlando, Florida. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (903x611, 64 KB) Summary Author: BRM Source: Digital Photo Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... This institution is unrelated, other than by similarity of name, to Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama or the former Cumberland College and Mountain View High School in Rose Hill, Virginia University of the Cumberlands is a private, liberal arts college located in Williamsburg... Williamsburg is a city located in Whitley County, Kentucky. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2304x1728, 206 KB) Summary Author: BRM Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2304x1728, 206 KB) Summary Author: BRM Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... American Bar Associations Washington, DC office The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. ... In the United States, a law school is an institution where students obtain a professional education in law. ... Nickname: The Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, BHam, The Ham Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates: Country United States State Alabama County Jefferson, Shelby Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Area    - City 151. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km²)  - Width 190 miles (306 km)  - Length 330 miles (531 km)  - % water 3. ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area  Ranked 36th  - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²)  - Width 120 miles (195 km)  - Length 440 miles (710 km)  - % water 2. ... This institution is unrelated, other than by similarity of name, to the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky. ... Samford University is an private, coeducational, Baptist-affiliated university located in Homewood, Alabama, (a suburb of Birmingham). ...

Samford University, formerly Howard College, is located in Homewood, just outside of Birmingham. Samford purchased the law school from Cumberland University in 1961. Homewood is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. ...

As of 2005, the law school had approximately 500 students.

Bird's-Eye View of the Campus

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Institution

Judge John L. Carroll, dean of Cumberland, gives an address at Cumberland's 2006 graduation ceremony.

The law school emphasises practical skills and integrity. The current dean, former federal judge John L. Carroll (class of '74) states that: Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (960x1280, 453 KB) Summary Author: M Source: Cumberland School of Law Graduation 2006 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (960x1280, 453 KB) Summary Author: M Source: Cumberland School of Law Graduation 2006 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Judge John Carroll, dean of Cumberland, gives an address at Cumberlands 2006 graduation ceremony. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ... A federal judge is a judge appointed in accordance with Article III of the United States Constitution. ... Judge John Carroll, dean of Cumberland, gives an address at Cumberlands 2006 graduation ceremony. ...

"The prevailing philosophy is simple: Practical skill outweighs raw knowledge, and application transcends erudition. If the goal were to produce great law students, the tenets might be exactly the opposite. Our goal is to produce exceptional lawyers. That’s why Cumberland’s curriculum emphasizes the core competencies of legal practice: research, writing and persuasion."

In the 2006 edition of the Princeton Review Cumberland ranked 6th in the top 10 list rating faculty and 9th in the top 10 list for overall quality of life. The Princeton Review (TPR) is a for-profit U.S. company that offers private instruction and tutoring for standardized achievement tests, in particular those offered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), such as the SAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and MCAT. The company was founded in 1982 and is based in...

Cordell Hull

One of Cumberland's more notable graduates, Cordell Hull, served under Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Secretary of State and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. At one point in his life he stated that: Download high resolution version (431x640, 20 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Franklin D. Roosevelt Cordell Hull Categories: U.S. history images ... Download high resolution version (431x640, 20 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Franklin D. Roosevelt Cordell Hull Categories: U.S. history images ... Secretary Hull Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871 – July 23, 1955) served as United States Secretary of State from 1933-1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), 32nd President of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. ... Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. ... Lester B. Pearson after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ...

"if this historic institution (Cumberland) had been located in any other section of the country instead of having been an unpretentious school in [an] unpretentious locality, its wonderful work would be as widely known and recognized as that of any educational institution of like age in any part of America." Fn.1.

Langum and Walthall summarize the history of Cumberland Law School as:

"From its very local, Tennessee origins in 1847, Cumberland School of Law soon emerged as a premier law school with a national status. It excelled in faculty, teaching methodology, and numbers of students. Following the American Civil War, Cumberland rebuilt itself and ultimately succeeded on a grand scale with its single-year curriculum." Fn.1 Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert Edward Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...

After witnessing the Civil War, the Great Depression, two world wars, and the Civil Rights Movement, Cumberland stands on a long, proud history, but now looks "to regain the premier status it once held." The Great Depression was not a worldwide economic downturn which started in 1929 (although its effects were not fully felt until late 1930) and lasted through most of the 1930s. ... Historically, the civil rights movement was a concentrated period of time around the world of approximately one generation (1954-1980) wherein there was much worldwide civil unrest and popular rebellion. ...

Memory Leake Robinson Hall in 2006

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Life at Cumberland

Cumberland students generally attend school for three years. The first year classes are preselected: Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property, Torts, Criminal Law, and Evidence. Students are divided into one of three sections, where the students remain together in their respective classes for the entire first year. First year students are also enrolled in even smaller sections for Lawyering and Legal Reasoning, a class that focuses on honing the students' ability to think and write like a lawyer. Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the process that courts will follow when hearing cases of a civil nature (a civil action). These rules govern how a lawsuit or case may be commenced, what kind of service of process is required, the types of pleadings or... A contract is any promise or set of promises made by one party to another for the breach of which the law provides a remedy. ... Property law is the law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land as distinct from personal or moveable possessions) and in personal property, within the common law legal system. ... In the common law, a tort is a civil wrong for which the law provides a remedy. ... Criminal law (also known as penal law) is the body of statutory and common law that deals with crime and the legal punishment of criminal offenses. ... The law of evidence governs the use of testimony (e. ...

Second and third year courses give students more choices and allow some degree of specialization. Cumberland offers a balance of traditional courses, such as Criminal Procedure, Family Law, and Basic Federal Income Tax, and practical courses, such as Basic and Advanced Trial Skills, ,Business Drafting, and Law Office Practice and Management.

Students are taught using the Socratic Method, typical of law school pedagogy. Socratic Method (or method of elenchos or Socratic debate) is a dialectic method of inquiry, largely applied to the examination of key moral concepts and first described by Plato in the Socratic Dialogues. ...

Classroom in Memory Leake Robinson Hall

Students must also take Professional Responsibility and the MPRE, which is an exam that is required to practice in addition to the Bar exam. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (4117x1603, 349 KB) Summary Author: BRM Source: Digital Photo Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (4117x1603, 349 KB) Summary Author: BRM Source: Digital Photo Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... The Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) is a two-hour multiple-choice examination designed to measure the knowledge and understanding of established standards related to a lawyers professional conduct. ... A bar examination is an series of tests conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given American examination usually consists of the following: complicated essay questions concerning that jurisdictions law; the Multistate Bar Examination, a standardized, nationwide examination containing generalized...

Cumberland offers numerous extra-curricular activities, in addition to the opportunities provided by Samford University. See below for a list of publications, research centers, and student organizations.

Housing for law students is not available on campus, but students typically rent apartments or buy houses in the surrounding community.

Competition for grades and rank can be aggressive but rarely personal, and there is a surprising degree of camaraderie amongst the students, which many students consider to be atypical of the environment on most law school campuses.

Bar passage and employment rates

• First time takers from the Class of 2006 had a 93.3% passage rate on the July 2006 Alabama Bar exam.
• First time takers from the Class of 2005 had a 94.1% passage rate on the July 2005 Alabama Bar exam.
• 93.7% of the Class of 2004 is currently employed, with 68.9% in private practice, 5.91% in judicial clerkships, 4.1% in business and industry, 11.1% in government, 1.5% in public interest, .7% in academics, and 6.7% pursued advanced degrees.[1]

Admissions

The Fall 2005 entering class had an average LSAT score of 156 and average undergraduate GPA of 3.23. The top quarter of the entering class had an LSAT score of 158 or higher and a GPA of 3.53 or higher. Candidates are selected based on "LSAT, undergraduate GPA, discipline of study, graduate work, undergraduate grade trends, employment, undergraduate institution, personal statement, and letters of recommendation." [2] The Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) is a standardized test used for admission to law schools in the United States of America and Canada that are members of the Law School Admissions Council. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... The initials GPA can refer, among other things, to Grade Point Average; see Grade (education) Guinness Peat Aviation General Practice Australia, a private, independent medical accreditation society Greyhound Pets of America This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same... The Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) is a standardized test used for admission to law schools in the United States of America and Canada that are members of the Law School Admissions Council. ...

Joint degree programs

Cumberland offers 6 joint degree programs:

• JD/Master of Accountancy, JD/Master of Business Administration, in conjunction with the Samford University School of Business,
• JD/Master of Divinity, in conjunction with the Beeson Divinity School of Samford University,
• JD/Master of Science in Environmental Management, in conjunction with the graduate school of Samford University,
• JD/Master of Public Administration, in conjunction with the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences of the University of Alabama at Birmingham,
• JD/Master of Public Health, in conjunction with the School of Public Health of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Foreign programs

• Summer 2006 - Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, England;
• Summer 2006 - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil;
• Summer 2006 - University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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Organizations

Publications

• The Cumberland Law Review [3] whose members are selected by write-on from the top 15% of the freshman class and,
• The American Journal of Trial Advocacy [4] whose members are selected by write-on from the top 33% of the freshman class.

The Cumberland Law Review[1] was founded in 1970 at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. ...

Research Centers

• Cumberland Law School's Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics;
• The Center for Law & Church;
• The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education.

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Student Organizations

• Alabama Defense Lawyer's Association [5]
• The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy [6]
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) [7]
• Black Law Students Association [8]
• Christian Legal Society [9]
• Community Service Organization [10]
• Cordell Hull Speakers Forum [11]
• Cumberland Democrats [12]
• Cumberland Republicans [13]
• Cumberland Wildlife Society [14]
• DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar [15]
• Environmental Law Society [16]
• Federalist Society [17]
• Henry Upson Sims Moot Court Board [18]
• Honor Court [19]
• Jewish Law Students’ Association [20]
• Military Justice Society [21]
• Phi Alpha Delta [22]
• The Sports and Entertainment Law Society [23]
• Pro Confesso On-line Newspaper [24]
• Trial Advocacy Board [25]
• Women in the Law [26]

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History

Cumberland University Drawing - c.1858

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Cumberland School of Law was founded on July 29, 1847 in Lebanon, Tennessee at Cumberland University. Founder and first professor Judge Abraham Caruthers said, "I call it an adventure, I speak of it as an experiment." At the end of 1847, 15 law schools existed in the country. Prior to the founding of these first law schools, the primary means for a legal education was apprentiship. July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area  Ranked 36th  - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²)  - Width 120 miles (195 km)  - Length 440 miles (710 km)  - % water 2. ... This institution is unrelated, other than by similarity of name, to the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky. ...

Cumberland School of Law - Corona Hall - Law School from 1873-1878

To give some perspective, establishing law schools was difficult in the early 1800s. Harvard only reestablished its law school in 1829 and Yale in 1826. So Cumberland appeared at a unique time in history and offered a unique educational option. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1437x851, 454 KB) Author: Unknown Source: Scan from From Maverick to Mainstream This image is in the public domain in the United States. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1437x851, 454 KB) Author: Unknown Source: Scan from From Maverick to Mainstream This image is in the public domain in the United States. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Yale can refer to an educational institution: Yale University, one of the United States oldest universities. ...

By 1860 only 21 university law schools existed in the country and in no documented case did the curriculum last over two years.

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Former Deans

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Notable Alumni

• Beverly Briley (D) - mayor of Nashville, Tennessee.
• Gordon Browning (D) - United States Representative and Governor of Tennessee.
• John L. Carroll - former federal judge and dean of Cumberland School of Law.
• Robert L. Caruthers - Governor of Tennessee.
• LeRoy Collins (D) - Governor of Florida.
• Jere Cooper (D) - United States Representative from Tennessee.
• Charlie Crist (R) - Governor-elect of Florida.
• Edward H. East (W) - Secretary of State for Tennessee.
• Joe L. Evins (D) - United States Representative from Tennessee.
• Van Hilleary (R) - Tennessee politician and lobbyist.
• William J. Holloway (D) - Governor of Oklahoma.
• Cordell Hull - United States Secretary of State under F.D.R..
• Douglas S. Jackson (D) - United States Senator from Tennessee.
• Howell Edmunds Jackson - United States Supreme Court Justice.
• Horace Harmon Lurton - United States Supreme Court Justice.
• Tom J. Murray (D) - United States Representative from Tennessee.
• Mike Papantonio - head of mass tort department at Levin, Papantonio in Pensacola, Florida, one of America's 15 most successful plaintiff's firms.
• John Strohm - entertainment lawyer and former member of the Lemonheads.

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Miscellany and Source Information

Notable facts

Caruthers Hall, from the Pheonix in 1903.

• Cumberland has trained: 2 United States Supreme Court Justices, Howell Edmunds Jackson and Horace Harmon Lurton, 9 senators, a secretary of state, and numerous federal and state judges, representatives and governors.
• Cumberland is the first law school to have been sold from one university to another.
• Cumberland is well known in the Southeast for its focus on Trial Advocacy.
• The school is composed of two buildings: the main classroom building, Memory Leake Robinson Hall, and the Lucille Stewart Beeson Law Library [27].
• Motto: "Where good people become exceptional lawyers."

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Internal Wikipedia Links

• Howell Edmunds Jackson - 54th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Horace Harmon Lurton - 57th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

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External links

• Cumberland Law School main page
• ABA Page for Cumberland
• Faculty Profiles
• Cordell Hull Museum
• Cordell Hull Institute

Source information

• DAVID J. LANGUM & HOWARD P. WALTHALL: From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847-1997 (University of Georgia Press 1997).
• Fn. 1 - p.253 (Langum & Walthall)
• Fn. 2 - p.113 (Langum & Walthall) (quoting "Hull Calls for Consectration," Lebanon (Tenn.) Democrat, May 10, 1934, p.1.