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Alum Named President of RI Association for Justice

Mark W. Gemma (‘97), former president of the RWU Law Alumni Association, has been elected president of the Rhode Island Association for Justice (formerly the Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association). A graduate of Boston College and RWU Law, Mark is a principal in Gemma Law Associates in Providence and is licensed to practice in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Mark is a member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and currently serves as the Secretary to the Counsel of Presidents and is a Rhode Island State Delegate for AAJ.

Way to go Mark!

Posted by David Logan on 10/17 at 12:49 PM
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David Logan has served as Dean at Roger Williams School of Law since 2003. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Dean Logan clerked for a federal judge and practiced with a major Washington, D.C. law firm where he represented Native American tribes. He was a member of the faculty of Wake Forest University School of Law from 1981 - 2003, where he won awards for his teaching of Torts, Media Law, and Professional Responsibility. His publications, focusing on the intersection of Tort law and the First Amendment, have appeared in major journals, including the Michigan Law Review and the Virginia Law Review.

He is a frequent commentator on legal issues, having appeared on tv (The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News, NBC Evening News, and Nightline), radio (Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Marketplace), and print media (Time, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post).

He was born in New York City and grew up in the DC area. He earned his BA from Bucknell, MA from Wisconsin-Madison, and JD from Virginia. In college, he was a varsity basketball player, head dj on the campus radio station, and a music critic for Rolling Stone.

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