2 law students in UA system earn award

— Law school students Ashley Peoples and Jason Boyeskie have been awarded the 2007-2008 Mitchell Williams Scholarship.

The scholarship - awarded at the Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard law firm's annual award event in Little Rock on Friday - is presented annually to the chairman of the Moot Court Board at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law and the chairman of the Board of Advocates at the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville.

Each student received a scholarship award in the amount of $2,000. Mitchell Williams Managing Director Harry Hamlin presented the awards to the honorees.

Peoples, the UALR moot court chairman, leads the moot court board by organizing training for inter-school competitions and intramural competitions, presides over all moot court activities and meetings, and recruits faculty members for the moot court committee.

The chairman of the Moot Court Board is nominated by the outgoing student board and then elected by the incoming board.

Peoples is scheduled to graduate in May. She received a bachelor of science degree in biology in May 2003 from the University of Central Arkansas at Conway.

Boyeskie is chairman of the UA Board of Advocates. The chairman's role is the overall management of the fall and spring appellate moot court competition, negotiations competition, client counseling competition and trial competition.

Chairman and members of the Board of Advocates are chosen by the outgoing board, with the chairman being chosen by a group within the Board of Advocates.

Boyeskie is scheduled to graduate in May. He received a bachelor of business administration, majoring in economics, in May 2005 from Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Arkansas, Pages 10 on 10/23/2007

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