Law Day gets honor for Cleveland County Bar Association

BY JANE GLENN CANNON Comments 0
Published: November 5, 2009

NORMAN — The Cleveland County Bar Association will be honored at the state bar association’s annual meeting that is today through Friday at the Sheraton Hotel in Oklahoma City.

The county association will receive the Hicks Epton Law Day Award, given annually to individuals or organizations for noteworthy Law Day activities.

University of Oklahoma law student Amanda Clark also will be recognized at the meeting as OU’s Outstanding Senior Law School Student.

The Cleveland County Bar Association is being recognized for Law Day activities that included a public forum April 29 at city hall on equality, civil rights and the right to vote. OU professor Rick Tepker, a noted Abraham Lincoln scholar, provided background on Lincoln’s contributions to those areas, which was followed by a panel discussion featuring Cleveland County district judges and lawyers.

Cleveland County attorneys also went to six schools to speak about the Law Day theme and the court system. Eleven bar association attorneys participated in an "Ask A Lawyer” free legal advice program.

Clark is a third-year law student at OU who interns with the land department at Chesapeake Energy Corp.

She has accepted an offer to be an associate landman with Chesapeake upon her graduation.

Law Day is celebrated annually on May 1.