February 25, 2010                                             

SULC Student Garners First Place in ACLM Competition

Andrew Mims, a second-year student at the Southern University Law Center, has been named first-place winner of the American College of Legal Medicine (ACLM) 2010 Writing Competition – Letourneau Award.

The ACLM is the most prominent professional society in the United States concerned with addressing issues that arise at the interface of law and medicine. 

Mims’ paper, titled “First a Bottle of Coke and now Health Care: How the Creation of Health Courts to Hear Medical Malpractice Suits Will Lower the Rising Costs of Health Care in America,” will be published in the Journal of Legal Medicine.  He will receive a $1,000 prize. 

Mims, a native of Lafayette, Louisiana, is married to Christy Boustany Mims and is a graduate of Louisiana State University.

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