From left, SBA Vice President Brandon Guernsey, ABA Law Student Division Delegate John Weber and SBA President Katie Bonds.
From left, SBA Vice President Brandon Guernsey, ABA Law Student Division Delegate John Weber and SBA President Katie Bonds.

The University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law earned two awards at the 2016 American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting last week in San Francisco. 

The ABA awarded the Public Service Award and ABA Involvement Award to the law school.

The Public Service Award honors law schools with a demonstrated commitment to public service, and the ABA Involvement Award goes to a school in line with the ABA’s goals and vision, said Katie Bonds, incoming Student Bar Association president.

 

The 2015-16 SBA president, Rudy Ellis III, and student representative Tony Singleton traveled to the annual meeting in Chicago last year to fulfill their goal of getting the Brandeis SBA more involved with the ABA on a national scale. Ellis said it was the first time in a while anyone from Brandeis had attended the event.

Bonds credited last year’s SBA leadership with earning the awards and said that this year’s SBA will build on that success.

“We want to be a part of that world and we want to have a stronger connection with the ABA,” she said.

Also at last week’s meeting, Brandeis 2L John Weber was inducted as one of three newly elected Law Student Division delegates to the ABA House of Delegates.

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Bethany Daily
Bethany Daily is the director of communications for the Brandeis School of Law. She is responsible for both external and internal communications geared toward a variety of audiences, including faculty and staff, students, alumni and prospective students. Before coming to Brandeis, Daily was the associate editor at Louisville Business First, a weekly business journal. In that role, she was responsible for special publications and managed awards and recognition programs. Daily also has worked at the national headquarters of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in the communications department.