Lightfoot, Franklin & White Announces Summer Clerk Class of 2023

Sixteen law students to participate in the firm’s six-week program

June 27, 2023

Lightfoot, Franklin & White LLC is proud to welcome its 2023 class of summer clerks. The group consists of 16 first- and second-year law students from eight different schools across the country.

This year’s participants are: 

• Ashley Antony, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law (2L)
• Charlotte Boles, Washington University School of Law in St. Louis (2L)
• Mary Catherine Cook, Harvard Law School (2L)
• Sam Katulich, George Mason University (2L)
• Caroline Leak, Cumberland School of Law (2L)
• Colin Matthaei, Washington & Lee University School of Law (2L) 
• Chase Mays, Vanderbilt Law School (2L)
• Sadler McKeen, Cumberland School of Law (2L)
• Cole Cooper, Harvard Law School (1L)
• Will Crawford, UNC School of Law (1L)
• Katie Grace Frisbee, Duke University School of Law (1L)
• Stephen Guerrero, University of Alabama School of Law (1L)
• Mary Clark Logan, University of Alabama School of Law (1L)
• Rachel Shumaker, Cumberland School of Law (1L)
• Natalie Simon, University of Alabama School of Law (1L)
• John Martin Weed, Harvard Law School (1L)

Lightfoot’s six-week, in-person summer associate program immerses students in all stages of litigation at the firm’s Birmingham office. Summer clerks will experience firsthand the work of Lightfoot's trial lawyers in action by attending depositions, observing trials and working on meaningful assignments for Fortune 500 clients. The firm’s attorneys provide focused training, including teaching the summer associates the art of jury persuasion and preparing participants to deliver mock arguments in a local courtroom.