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The Cardinal Lawyer: Capping off a great deal

Section 1 has secured Professor David Leibson's hat. In fulfillment of a contract made in October 2009, 1L students Nancy Vinsel and Alex Davis presented Professor Leibson with a check for $1040 and twenty-four 12-ounce cans of Dr. Brown?s Diet Cream Soda. In exchange, Professor Leibson gave a golf hat signed by PGA champion Byron Nelson and staged a lunchtime presentation on February 11 for the enjoyment of the Section 1 Torts class. The money raised by Ms. Vinsel, Mr. Davis, and their classmates will support student scholarships.

The hat exchange began last fall as a way of helping fellow law students. Ms. Vinsel and Mr. Davis collected pledges of $10 from each of their Section 1 classmates. Mr. Davis said, "This started out as a really small idea, and it was amazing to watch it grow as other students and faculty came up with ideas to make the offer better. We're hoping to challenge future classes to buy the hat from us and raise even more money."

The terms of the contract are in themselves a thing of beauty. Section 1 has challenged future classes to top their net contribution of $1040 and to exceed the eighteen terms they used to seal their deal with Professor Leibson. The venue in which Alex Davis published this contract, 1L at UofL, is a wonderful record of Mr. Davis's experiences as a first-year student.

The Cardinal Lawyer tips its hat to Nancy Vinsel, Alex Davis, Professor David Leibson, and all the students in the Section 1 Torts class for this imaginative way of helping other students achieve their dream of learning the law and joining the legal profession.

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Full post as published by University of Louisville Law Faculty on February 16, 2010 (boomark / email).