Buies Creek — Campbell University’s Norman A. Wiggins School of Law conferred 109 Juris Doctor degrees at a graduation hooding ceremony on Sunday, May 13, 2007.Bob Crumley, CEO of Crumley and Associates, extended this year’s hooding ceremony address. Crumley and Associates is the largest consumer law firm in North Carolina, handling a wide array of civil cases including auto accidents, workers’ compensation claims and nursing home abuse. More than one-third of the firm’s attorneys are Campbell Law School graduates.Crumley, a 1980 Wake Forest Law School graduate, encouraged students to build upon the foundation of their legal training and strive for a higher professional and personal standard.”Society may look at lawyers as a collective group as one thing, but individually as something entirely different,” he said. “You can walk the walk in a way that brings admiration from clients, and esteem from your colleagues.”Campbell Law School’s faculty and staff instilled the same drive for excellence in their students through academic and practical advocacy skills. To honor their achievements, specialized awards, including the West Group’s Academic Achievement Award, the Lake Constitutional Law Award and the International Association of Trial Lawyers Award, were bestowed upon deserving students. Graduates received their diplomas during the commencement ceremony held Monday, May 14. Honors were awarded to students in the top ten percent of their class and to those who had a cumulative average of 86.00 or higher — 16 students graduated Cum Laude, 2 Magna Cum Laude and 1 Summa Cum Laude. Student Bar Association President Mary Charles Wall delivered remarks on behalf of the class.Last year’s graduating class scored a 97% passage rate on the North Carolina Bar Exam, topping all other law schools in the state.Please click here for the full text of Mary Charles Wall’s comments Campbell University School of Law is a highly demanding, purposely small, intensely personal community of faculty and students whose aim, guided by transcendent values, is to develop lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion, and professional competence and who view the practice of law as a calling to serve others and to create a more just society. For more information, please call 1800-334-4111 or log on to its website at http://www.law.campbell.edu.Photo Copy: Campbell University Law School’s Class of 2007 pose after their hooding ceremony.
Campbell Law School confers 109 degrees