“Stay in role!” exhorts Professor Carol Steiker ’86, as some 90 students in her upper-level course Capital Punishment in America split into groups for an exercise in which they’ll argue whether a death sentence should be reversed due to ineffective assistance of counsel. “Don’t say, ‘If I were the lawyer, I would … ’”
When Professor Elizabeth Bartholet ’65 spoke at a conference on international adoption in Guatemala City early this year, she addressed a room full of activists, lawyers and politicians. But at the heart of her speech, and her pro bono advocacy, are children–living in institutions or foster care around the world.
Donald Alexander ’48 is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C., where he has a wide-ranging tax practice.
Hannah Zagon knows her mommy now gets tired easily because of the ouchies in her head and lungs called cancer.
As part of its Strategic Plan, HLS has instituted a program that introduces new students to the practical skills needed in the legal world.
In 1998 Pamela Coukos ’94 became an associate at a firm that barely existed.
The current Strategic Plan builds on changes that have taken place at HLS over the last 30 years.
Harvard Law School’s Appleseed Electorial Reform Project, inaugurated last summer seeks to increase voter participation and ensure that residents’ interests are represented through lawmakers and by the referendum process.
Oscar Fendler ’33 has always done things his own way. He remains the only graduate of HLS to ever practice law in Blytheville, Ark.
Some alumni become solo practitioners in order to leave law firm life, or return to their hometown, or practice their specialty. Whatever the reason, they all agree they’ve made the right choice.
