With devotion to the president and the office, Alberto Gonzales '82 tackles the complications and controversies of the White House counsel's job.
A Harvard Law School student works a few weeks in a London firm over the summer and can’t get back to the United States in time for his fall semester.
It was December 1992, and Virginia Tuthill sat by the bedside of her husband of 57 years, Stedman Tuthill '33 ('34). Stedman was in the final stages of Parkinson's disease, and Virginia struggled to write what she knew would be his last Christmas letter to his law school friend Leslie Fisher '34.
The job was supposed to last only six months, so Joshua Gotbaum ' 76 (' 78) didn't even bother bringing his family with him to New York from Washington, D.C.
Designers of the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C., debated whether to depict the 32nd president in the wheelchair he hid from the nation. But according to Charles Gamer '66, they should have thought a little more about people in wheelchairs today.
Years ago, when Wes Williams' children attended their first knighting ceremony, they asked, "Is there going to be a beheading?"
For the past 30 years, Robert A.G. Monks '58 has worked to change corporate governance and increase management accountability. Now, in the era of Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom and other wayward companies, more people than ever are paying attention.
When I graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970, my feelings about the place were clear, sharp.
Bernard Koteen '40 is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Holland & Knight. A telecommunications expert and member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, Koteen is also a strong supporter of public interest law.
Almost exactly 10 years ago, Bernard Nussbaum '61 began his job as Bill Clinton's White House counsel.
John Knox LL.M. '36 was not short on confidence. "My name will survive as long as man survives," he wrote while an HLS student, "because I am writing the greatest diary that has ever been written." Continue Reading
