Michael M. Martin’s relationship with Fordham Law School began in 1972 with a love affair — he looked for a law teaching job in New York to be with the woman he married — and ended up as a love affair. Dean since 2011, he says he’s lucky to be at a school where even the new building reflects its sense of community and family-like culture.
James Anthony Wolff, a 3L in New York Law School’s evening division, long ago confessed to being a passionate composer and musician, a tech geek and a serial entrepreneur; a 3D and space technologies entrepreneur to be exact. All of it, he says, explains why the Center for Business and Financial Law and the “feel of the place” made NYLS the right choice for him.
In the litigation trenches, John Keker, founder of San Francisco’s Keker & Van Nest, is known as the toughest lawyer around. But he recently came to the Golden Gate University School of Law Second Annual Veterans Conference counseling students, academics and leaders of the bar to offer legal services to veterans with understanding, compassion and, yes, love.
Advocating for disadvantaged communities is a passion for Lola Sophia Bovell, a 3L and 2014 Ms. JD Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. But why she chose UW had a lot to do with its national reputation, choice of clinics, financial aid and a relationship with the school forged at a “Law Day” forum years before the Florida native even applied.
The University of Wisconsin Law School has long prided itself on its “law in action” educational philosophy. Perhaps that’s why Margaret Raymond considers herself the law school’s “dean in action” – an engaged, hands-on administrator who cites her own legal education as a life-transforming experience.
Jared Brenner went to law school so that he could learn to protect musicians and other creative artists in ways they didn’t – or couldn’t – themselves. What he found at Brooklyn Law School was a new community of creators — tech-startup entrepreneurs — who he hopes will one day be his clients and collaborators.
Terry McManus’s career in fund-raising began with a college internship on a losing Senate campaign. The job included making cold calls to potential donors, and the skills he began to develop then and has honed in the 14 years since will support him as Boston University Law’s new assistant dean of development and alumni relations, a post he began in May.
The cold and snow of Colorado made Kellie Manders, a 3L at Arizona State’s college of law, yearn for Arizona’s sun and warmth. But it was ASU’s distinctive Center for Law, Science and Innovation that sealed her law school choice. It’s now kick-started her career.
Before becoming dean of The Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, Daniel F. Attridge spent more than 32 years as a litigator at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a major international firm, including 14 years as managing partner of the Washington, D.C., office. That experienced grounded him in the management skills that a dean needs to deal with students, faculty, staff and alumni along with university administrators.
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