Appalachian School of Law

Appalachian School of Law

Our Mission and History

ASL's central goal is to create legal counselors with a feeling of expert obligation who will get to be pioneers in their groups. The school was established in 1994, and the five star of 71 understudies was conceded in August 1997. ASL is completely authorize by the American Bar Association. Understudies are qualified to get through the law knowledge review in every one of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Our Program

What separates ASL is its profound duty to group administration and authority. ASL takes a creative way to deal with instruction, going past simply discussing the law to really encountering it through an accentuation on down to earth abilities and a unique externship program. The educational modules is thorough, yet understudies are bolstered by a tutoring personnel, devoted staff, and empowering schoolmates. ASL keeps up an emphasis on question determination, morals, and expert obligation.

Our Faculty

ASL teachers aren't simply excellent law researchers. They've likewise been in the trenches, rehearsing what they educate. Together, they have over 325 years of law-practice experience. They're receptive, open, and dedicated to understudies' prosperity.

Our Commitment

ASL's dedication is three-fold: to propel the legitimate calling, to serve the group, and to deliver city minded legal advisors. The school endeavors to deliver graduated class with heart who have the drive to achieve their objectives, as well as help their groups all the while. Whatever an understudy's meaning of achievement's, ASL will likely give the apparatuses to get it going.

ASL is focused on creating group minded pioneers. That is the reason understudies satisfy 25 hours of group administration every semester, a standard coordinated by just around twelve graduate schools in the nation. Late graduates volunteered about 25,000 hours amid three years at ASL.

Our Students

ASL keeps up that the best sort of legal advisors originate from the best sort of individuals. That portrays ASL understudies, whose foundations are as various as their objectives. Some originate from as far away as the Pacific Northwest and Pakistan. Numerous are from Virginia and encompassing states. Some are crisp out of school; others have set up vocations in fields from solution to selling. All are headed to make brilliant fates for themselves and their groups.

Our Alumni

ASL is pleased with its developing graduated class system. All through the nation, ASL graduates have squandered no time before having any kind of effect:

Justin Marcum '11: twentieth District Delegate, West Virginia House of Delegates; Mingo County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
Joey Mossor '11: Judge Advocate General Corps, United States Marine Corps

Capt. Melvin "Artie" Vaughn '07: Area Defense Counsel, Judge Advocate General Corps, United States Air Force
Vince Riggs '06: Fayette County Circuit Court Clerk in Lexington, Kentucky; oversees more than 130 agent representatives

Chris Fortier '06:recipient of the Virginia State Bar R. Edwin Burnette Jr. Youthful Lawyer of the Year Award for 2013; lawyer counsel at the Social Security Administration

Jarrod Crockett '06: District 91 Representative, Maine House of Representatives
Dan Kostrub '05: accomplice, Steptoe and Johnson PLLC; centers his practice in the ranges of land and vitality law
Dave McFadyen '05: District Court Judge in the 3B Judicial District of eastern North Carolina
Matt England '05: Family Court Judge for the fourteenth Family Court Circuit serving Fayette County, West Virginia

erald Arrington '04: Buchanan County, Virginia Commonwealth's Attorney
Capt. John K. Harris '03: dynamic obligation United States Army Reserve Officer; joined the military in 1997; has conveyed to Iraq and served at different levels of summon
uzanne Kerney-Quillen '03: Assistant United States Attorney, United States Department of Justice

Daniel Boyd '02: Juvenile Court Judge in Hawkins County, Tennessee
Marcus McClung '00: Scott County, Virginia Commonwealth's Attorney