John Keker (Photo by Hugh Williams)
In the litigation trenches, John Keker is known as the toughest lawyer around.
The founder of San Francisco’s Keker & Van Nest gets the call when Major League Baseball is sued over the possible move of its Oakland Athletics franchise; when Standard & Poor’s is threatened by claims that it was negligent in awarding financial ratings; when investment bankers, athletes and others face indictment and loss of reputations and livelihood. Continue reading
Student: Lola Sophia Bovell
Law School: University of Wisconsin Law School
Status: 3L
Undergraduate: University of Florida, B.A. in Political Science
Other Degrees: University of Florida, M.A. Women’s Studies
Home City/State: Miami, Florida
Advocating for disadvantaged or underserved communities is second nature to Lola Sophia Bovell, a third-year student at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Several years before she even applied to law school, Bovell was an admissions counselor and financial aid administrator at Keiser University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., helping many first-generation and nontraditional students navigate the college admissions and financial aid process. Continue reading
The University of Wisconsin Law School has long prided itself on its “law in action” educational philosophy. A similar concept applies to Margaret Raymond’s role as dean.
“I spend 70 percent of my time supporting everyone here at the school; 70 percent on university- or community-related issues and events; and 70 percent on development and fundraising,” Raymond said with a laugh in a telephone interview. Continue reading
Name: Jared Brenner
Law School: Brooklyn Law School
Status: 3L
Undergraduate: The George Washington University, B.A., Major, History; Minor, Classical Studies. Graduated 2011, completing degree in three years.
Hometown: Princeton, N.J.
Jared Brenner went to law school so that he could learn to protect musicians and other artists in ways they didn’t – or couldn’t – themselves. Continue reading
Terry McManus’s career in fund-raising began with a college internship on a losing Senate campaign.
Because his candidate, then-Democratic U.S. Rep. Ron Klink, lagged far behind the Republican incumbent, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, McManus’s job included much more than the stereotypical coffee-brewing and copy-making: He did field work. He traveled to events with Klink. Continue reading
NAME: Kellie Manders
LAW SCHOOL: Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
STATUS: 3L
UNDERGRADUATE: B.A. in Psychology and Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder
HOME: Boulder, Colorado
Kellie Manders may be the quintessential experiential learner: She devises the experiences from which she knows she’ll learn. Continue reading
“Practical, focused and connected” is how Daniel F. Attridge says The Catholic University of America
’s Columbus School of Law markets itself. In a way, it’s a fitting description of Attridge’s own attributes when he became the law school’s dean. Continue reading
Outside California, the term “AB 540 student” may be nothing if not arcane. Inside the state, though, it has become a virtual identity for thousands of undocumented immigrants benefitting from a 13-year-old law that allows them to pay the lower college tuition usually reserved for California residents.
From that perspective, it’s an ideal choice for the name of an office at the University of California-Davis dedicated to the unique needs of those students: the AB540 & Undocumented Student Center, which opened this month. Through a partnership with the law school’s immigration clinic – the first of its kind in the University of California system – the center will provide free legal services to undocumented students and their families. Continue reading
STUDENT: Kristy Brumfield
LAW SCHOOL: Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
STATUS: 2L, Civil Law, Evening
UNDERGRADUATE: B.S., Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana
OTHER DEGREE: Ph.D., Biochemistry, Louisiana State University
HOME CITY/STATE: Opelousas, Louisiana
Even as a college undergraduate, Kristy Brumfield wanted to be a lawyer. That is, of course, why she earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and teaches as an assistant professor in Xavier University of Louisiana’s biology department.
“Makes perfect sense to me,” said Brumfield, a 2L part-time evening student at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. “The appeal of law school, for me at least, was the intersection of science and law.” Continue reading
Harvard University is standing by a new sexual harassment policy implemented this fall despite criticisms from more than two dozen law school professors, who say it fails to protect the rights of accused students and that it lacked sufficient faculty input. Continue reading
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