Courses
Analysis, Research, and Communications for Professionals (Juris Master program), Introduction to Legal Advocacy, Research, and Communications (Juris Doctor program)
Biography
Allison Elmore Thornton is an Adjunct Professor in the Juris Master program. She has taught Analysis, Research, and Communications for Professionals in the Juris Master (JM) program and Introduction to Legal Advocacy, Research, and Communications in the Juris Doctor (JD) program.
Thornton holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University (cum laude in Public Policy Studies) and a JD from the University of Georgia School of Law (magna cum laude). During law school, she served on the editorial board of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law and on the Moot Court Board, and she was inducted into The Order of the Coif and The Order of the Barristers.
Thornton served as a law clerk for the Honorable Julie E. Carnes in the Northern District of Georgia and then practiced employment law in the Atlanta headquarters of Fisher Phillips. Currently, Thornton is also Of Counsel to the Amicus Committee of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association.