ASL Student Organizations

Opportunities to Serve the School, the Community, and the Profession

This week, we held a bar-b-que that gave student organizations an opportunity to recruit members.  

I profiled all, or nearly all, of ASL's student organizations in a series of posts beginning in August 31, 2013 that continued through October 2013.

They are:

Pro Bono Legal Service Providers:

• Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) 
• VITA Tax Services (VITA) 
• Great Eastern Trail Project (GET) 

Law Journals:

• Appalachian Journal of Law (AJoL)
• Appalachian Natural Resources Law Journal (ANRLJ)

Student Government:

• Student Bar Association (SBA)
• Legislative Branch
• Executive Branch
• Standing Committees
• Honor Court

Legal Fraternities:

• Blackwell Inn Phi Delta Phi (PDP) 
• Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International (PAD) 

Focus on Substantive Law:

• ADR Society 
• Criminal Law Society (CLS) 
• Education Law Society (ELS) 
• Energy and Mineral Law Society (EMLS) 
• Environmental Law Society (ELS) 
• Innocence Project 
• International Law Society (ILS) 
• Patent Law Association (PLA) 
• Sports & Entertainment Law Society (SELS) 
• Sutin Public-Interest Association (SPIA) 

Affinity Groups:

• Appalachian Women in the Law (AWIL) 
• Black Law Students Association (BLSA) 
• Christian Legal Society (CLS) 
• Gay/Straight Legal Association (GSLA or Outlaw) 
• Hamilton Society (veterans)

Political Viewpoints:

• Democratic Law Society (DLS) 
• Republican Law Society (RLS) 
• Federalist Society (conservatives/libertarians) 
• American Constitution Society (ACS) 

Geographic Groups:

• Beltway Bar Association
• North Carolina/South Carolina Bar Association

Sports Groups:

• ASL Softball Team
• ASL Pistol, Gun & Hunt Club
• Running Club

Other Groups: 

• American Association for Justice (AAJ) (trial lawyers) 
• ASL Cares (for pet adoption and rescue) 
• ASL Happiness Project (student well-being) 
• Community Thread Society (for CASA kids) 
• Lions Club 
• Jug Band aka Grun-D-MC (musicians) 
• The Rhetoricals, Toastmasters International (public speaking) 

For more information about these student organizations, take a look at the late August, September, and early October 2013 postings at The Red Velvet Lawyer, http://the-red-velvet-lawyer.blogspot.com.  Keep in mind that some of the listed officers have changed.  

For information about funding or creating an organization, see here and here.