Highly Ranked Cumberland Law School

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Cumberland Law School
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An attorney licensed to practice in the state of Alabama, Stewart Springer has for over two decades represented numerous clients in trial cases resulting in favorable verdicts. People who have trusted him to handle their cases include working class citizens, businessmen, policemen, politicians, and judges. Attorney Stewart Springer earned his law degree from Samford University Cumberland School of Law.

This law school is recognized nationally for its quality program and its trial advocacy. The US News & World Report’s Best Grad School 2017 publication ranked Cumberland School of Law 14th for trial advocacy. In trial advocacy programs students learn mediation, negotiation, and other skills, present cases before mock juries and judges, and also participate in mock trial competitions.

The school has for years participated in legal skills competitions coordinated by the Center for Advocacy & Clinical Education, and is one of the nation’s most awarded law schools in these regional and national competitions. More than once the top two teams in the region have come from Cumberland School of Law and had to compete against each other for top regional honors.

Among its best performances in 2016 include earning first place in the Southeast Regional, National Trial Competition, organized by Stetson University College of Law, and reaching the Elite Eight in the National Finals in the National Trial Competition, cosponsored by the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

The Princeton Review has also previously ranked the school 9th for Best Quality of Life and 9th for Best Professors.