For Immediate Release
May 29, 2008

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Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Several members of the Georgetown Law community, including full-time faculty members Judith Areen, Neal Katyal and David Vladeck, have been named among the "90 Greatest Washington Lawyers of the Last 30 Years" in the 30th anniversary issue of the Legal Times.

The list was divided into three parts: "champions," those who have upheld their profession’s core values of public duty and client service, "pioneers," those no longer with us who made an indelible impact on the way law is practiced in Washington and "visionaries," those who have stretched practices, built courts, law firms and companies.

Areen, Katyal, Vladeck, Professor Eleanor Holmes Norton, Esther Lardent, president of the Pro Bono Institute at Georgetown Law, and Georgetown Law alumnus E. Barrett Prettyman Jr., were included in the "champions" category. The late Professors Albert Arent, Samuel Dash, Robert Drinan, S.J. and Charles Ruff, as well as Law Center alumni Vincent Fuller and Edward Bennett Williams, were listed among the "pioneers." Georgetown Law alumni Robert Bennett, Thomas Boggs, Jr., Plato Cacheris, Willie Cook Jr., Donald Dunner, Rufus King III, Robert Ruyak, David Stern, Brendan Sullivan Jr., Marna Tucker, Richard Wiley and Charles Work were selected as "visionaries."

 

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Georgetown University Law Center is one of the world's premier law schools. It has the largest full-time faculty in the nation and is pre-eminent in several areas, including constitutional, international, tax and clinical law. Drawing on its Jesuit heritage, it has a strong tradition of public service and is dedicated to the principle that law is but a means, justice is the end. With this principle in mind, Georgetown Law has built an environment that cultivates an exchange of ideas and the pursuit of academic excellence. It brings together an extraordinarily varied group of teachers, scholars and practitioners, as well as an outstanding student body representing more than 60 countries.

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