The Virginia State Bar's Corporate Counsel Section awarded Chris Lemons and Seth Ginther, both third year T.C. Williams law students, second place prizes in the Virginia Law Student Writing Competition.
Students were asked to "select a topic that may be encountered by, make an impact on, or be of interest to in-house corporate attorneys or attorneys with general corporate practices." Lemons and Ginther collaborated on an essay titled "The Shifting Burden Test in SEC v. Adler: A Middle Ground Reconciliation of the Knowing Possession and Actual Use Standards for Classical Insider Trading Liability." They are splitting the $1500 second place prize.
Lemons is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College and is focusing his current studies on corporate and securities law. He was executive editor of the University of Richmond Law Review. Upon graduation, he plans to attend the Masters of Business Administration program at the Graduate School of Business at the College of William & Mary.
Ginther is a graduate of Virginia Tech, and is also studying corporate and securities law. He was the editor-in-chief of the University of Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest. After graduation and completion of the Virginia Bar Exam, he will practice corporate law with the Richmond law firm of Hirschler, Fleischer, Weinberg, Cox & Allen.
The Virginia State Bar Corporate Counsel Section is comprised of more than 700 members of the Bar who have an interest in working with corporations, both as inside counsel and as private practitioners. Section participants represent public institutions and privately-held companies across a variety of industries.
Other winners of the Virginia Law Student Writing Competition
are Bruce Antley of the University of Virginia School of Law and
Jeffrey Yeates of the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College
of William & Mary.
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