>Stetson Award for Lifetime Achievement in Advocacy

Stetson University College of Law awards a lifetime achievement award for excellence in advocacy to a deserving member of the legal community. This award recognizes excellence in all facets of advocacy, from teaching others to representing clients. The recipient exemplifies the legal profession’s commitment to furthering the art, science and skill of advocacy instruction. The inaugural recipient of this award is Mr. Terence MacCarthy, a noted federal public defender and an outstanding teacher. Mr. MacCarthy will be recognized during a dinner held on Nov. 15, 2007 at Stetson Law's Gulfport campus.

1st Recipient of the Lifetime Excellence in Advocacy Award
Terence MacCarthy
Executive Director, Federal Defender Program
Chicago, Ill.

For over 37 years, Mr. MacCarthy has been the federal defender in Chicago, an office with an outstanding record of dedication and achievement. As a defender, his only client with national name recognition was Al Capone, whom he successfully represented in 1991 at an ABA retrial of the 1931 income tax case. He has served on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College every summer since its inception in the early 1970s. He is also a member of the faculty of the Western Trial Advocacy Institute, the Northwestern Short Course, the University of Virginia Trial Advocacy Institute, and has taught at the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyer’s College.