Online Learning Update

By Catherine Ho, Washington Post

Georgetown University General Counsel Stephanie Tsacoumis leads the school’s 20-lawyer in-house team that this year completed a massive two-year project: the creation of an online nursing degree program, Georgetown’s first distance learning program. The program contracts with 26 hospitals and clinics in 11 states, where students do hands-on training. The program, which began in February, is generating buzz among local in-house lawyers, snagging Tsacoumis an award for chief legal officer last month from the Washington Metro Area Corporate Counsel Association. Tsacoumis joined Georgetown in 2009 after leading Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington office for six years. She spoke with Capital Business about what made the nursing program a unique legal endeavor.

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